I’ve a gathering scheduled with the contractor in seven days to debate our kitchen addition, and I really feel like I’m additional away from making a call now than I used to be final Friday. I’ve provide you with two very totally different kitchen layouts, and to be fairly sincere, I really like them each. I feel I might be fairly proud of both one. One is far smaller than the opposite. One is an enormous rectangle, whereas the opposite is an extended galley kitchen. One solely extends to the again of the present kitchen, whereas the opposite extends to the again of the present kitchen and music room. And each of them have professionals and cons. So let me present you these two very totally different kitchen concepts.
The Smaller Galley Kitchen
This was my unique concept that I shared final Friday once I shared our general plan for the home now that we’ve cancelled the large addition. Mainly, this kitchen could be an extended galley kitchen added to the again wall of our current kitchen. The prevailing kitchen will change into a eating room.
This kitchen is roughly 10′ x 20′, so 200 sq. ft. Right here’s the final ground plan of simply the kitchen supplied by the IKEA kitchen planner. In the event you flip this picture 90 levels to the appropriate, you’ll have the proper place to overlay onto the home ground plan above.
So on the kitchen ground plan drawing above, the cased opening on the appropriate results in the eating room (i.e., present kitchen). The doorway on the wall to the appropriate of that results in the laundry room (i.e., the present pantry). And the door on the left wall leads outdoors to the deck. That door can be very near the top of the wheelchair ramp from the carport, so I might a walkway of some type from the wheelchair ramp to the again door of the kitchen.
So with these explanations, right here’s another have a look at the general ground plan and the structure of the kitchen. On this one, I simply copied and pasted the IKEA kitchen planner ground plan onto my home ground plan.
Listed here are some screenshots from IKEA’s kitchen planner of this structure. The sink could be on a wall of home windows that appears out to the deck.
The doorway on the finish of the kitchen that leads outdoors would have glass in it in order that it could let in some mild. I’d most likely use a 9-lite door like we now have in our rest room, and like I even have on the facet door of the studio.
I don’t have all the cupboard particulars labored out (i.e., what number of drawers I need in every cupboards, and what sizes of drawers I need the place). I can work out these particulars later. However I do envision having the tall pantry cupboards with pull-out drawers on the outside door finish of the kitchen.
Right here’s a view of the vary wall, which is the wall on the appropriate facet once you stroll into the kitchen from the eating room. The door on the appropriate would result in the laundry room.
And the trying again the opposite path, that is the cased opening to the eating room. I positively need a cased opening as a substitute of getting it utterly open to maintain issues per the remainder of the home.
I put the fridge simply contained in the kitchen for simple entry.
Right here’s just a little bit of a better sight angle of the sink wall with the home windows.
And another larger view trying in direction of the outside door, which, once more, could have glass to let mild in.
And listed here are the 2 2D drawings of every wall supplied by the IKEA kitchen planner. First up, right here’s the sink wall with the home windows.
And right here’s the vary wall with the laundry room door on the appropriate facet.
And now right here’s the second risk…
The Bigger Rectangle Kitchen
This kitchen is 21′ by 13′, so 273 sq. ft. This kitchen extends to the again of the eating room (i.e., present kitchen) AND the music room. On our ground plan, it appears to be like like this…
And right here’s the ground plan of simply the kitchen from the IKEA kitchen planner.
Clearly, this kitchen is larger, so it permits for fairly a bit extra storage. Perhaps that’s good, or possibly that will simply temp me to build up stuff I don’t really want. I don’t know. However it’s a rather more open plan. Our present sunroom extends again 13 ft, so this kitchen could be the identical. That helps me to get a good suggestion of what this kitchen would really feel like.
So right here’s a go searching. You may need to refer again to the ground plan above to get your bearings. From this view, the cased opening on the left goes to the eating room, and the cased opening to the appropriate of the fridge goes to the music room.
On this wall there are two doorways. The one on the appropriate is the laundry room, and the one on the left is an exterior door that results in the carport wheelchair ramp. That door would have glass to let mild in.
And naturally, I put home windows on the sink wall. Regardless of which design I am going with, I’ll have a lot of daylight. This design permits me rather more room for the tall pantry cupboards with pullouts, which I placed on both finish of the sink wall. I might additionally use higher cupboards to create a shallow storage cupboard unit on the wall between the 2 doorways, identical to I did in my studio with the paint swatch cupboard.
And naturally, I needed to make this wall symmetrical.
After which right here’s the opposite finish of the sink wall, with extra tall storage and the outside door that leads out to the deck.
And eventually, the vary is on the wall to the left when coming into the kitchen from the music room.
Right here’s the kitchen ground plan from the IKEA kitchen planner.
Right here’s the 2D drawing of the fridge wall with the cased opening to the eating room on the left, and the cased opening to the music room on the appropriate.
That is the vary wall with the outside door to the deck, which might have glass to let mild in.
And eventually, that is the drawing of the sink wall with the home windows and tall storage on the ends. Once more, I haven’t thought by means of each element of what number of drawers I need, and what dimension drawers I need the place, so pay no consideration to these particulars proper now.
Earlier than I even begin excited about these particulars, I simply have to decide on which kitchen structure I need. I have to have a call earlier than assembly with the contractor subsequent Tuesday. So it’s both a smaller 200 sq. foot galley kitchen, or a bigger 273 sq. foot open rectangular kitchen. There are issues that I really like about each, and issues that I don’t love about each. In the event you had been in my sneakers, which one would you select?
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