The buffet counter on the far wall serves a a landing spot for food headed for the dining room. We left room for one chair in case someone wants to hang out at the edge of the room. The area above the counter was left open to make room for family photos. Details: Like the cabinet in the left foreground, the buffet cabinets are wall cabs set on plinths. On the far left you can just see part of the door of an existing shallow closet which is now used as a pantry.

Here is a 3D CAD drawing of the A family's kitchen alongside an actual photo of the completed kitchen. You can get a good feel for what it will look and feel like just from the CAD drawings. I can also produce even more realistic pics using rendering software.

The shape of the space. The wall separating the 2 sections of the kitchen is structural. Budget constraints precluded opening up the wall, moving the exterior doorway at bottom right, and moving windows.

The "before" view on the left shows the layout prior to the remodel. As you can see in the "After" view, shifting the table to the left wall gave us ten and a half feet of length along the window wall, sufficient for the milchik run. The only modifications to the home were 1) removing the little pony wall (half wall) by the range, and 2) raising the sill height of one of the windows. Moving the table also improved the main traffic pattern through the room, shown with pink lines. You no longer have to detour around the table to get from the main living areas of the house to and through the kitchen.

Before the remodel there was no place to put the trash and recycling — the cans were a real nuisance in the middle of the floor, blocked a very shallow angled cabinet where the trash is now, and also blocked the door. Because moving the door was not an option, I designed a much deeper angled counter here, deep enough to allow for for 2 large trash and recycling cans to fit under it, and with sufficient height to open the cans without their lids bumping the counter. Raising the counter here also keeps the doorknob from hitting it, allowing the door to open a few more degrees than it would otherwise.

The twin ranges make keeping kosher much easier. The structural wall between them cleanly separates the milk and meat sides of this kitchen.

The remodeled kitchen has greatly improved storage and work areas, improved traffic pattern, and of course, improved function.

This picture shows what you can fit in 10 1/2 feet: a standard size range, sink, and dishwasher, 48" of base storage cabinets, 2 24" wide upper cabs, and a few less useful upper cabs.

You can see the clear front-to-back traffic pattern here. A few design details; • The arched valences go well with the arched door opening. • Just to the right of the far window we made a little open shelf cabinet. The spot wasn't big enough for even a small open end cabinet, which in any event didn't exist in this limited stock line. Constructing the little shelf unit there keeps the look much more symmetric even tho the cabinet doesn't hold much. • This stock line doesn't make reduced depth base cabinets: the cabinet just beyond the table is a wall cabinet set on a plinth.

The buffet counter on the far wall serves a a landing spot for food headed for the dining room. We left room for one chair in case someone wants to hang out at the edge of the room. The area above the counter was left open to make room for family photos. Details: Like the cabinet in the left foreground, the buffet cabinets are wall cabs set on plinths. On the far left you can just see part of the door of an existing shallow closet which is now used as a pantry.

Here is a 3D CAD drawing of the A family's kitchen alongside an actual photo of the completed kitchen. You can get a good feel for what it will look and feel like just from the CAD drawings. I can also produce even more realistic pics using rendering software.

The shape of the space. The wall separating the 2 sections of the kitchen is structural. Budget constraints precluded opening up the wall, moving the exterior doorway at bottom right, and moving windows.

The "before" view on the left shows the layout prior to the remodel. As you can see in the "After" view, shifting the table to the left wall gave us ten and a half feet of length along the window wall, sufficient for the milchik run. The only modifications to the home were 1) removing the little pony wall (half wall) by the range, and 2) raising the sill height of one of the windows. Moving the table also improved the main traffic pattern through the room, shown with pink lines. You no longer have to detour around the table to get from the main living areas of the house to and through the kitchen.