Help with Kitchen layout.

Going Demented

I am meeting my architect again tonight. I was meant to be off getting an idea in my head of where i want the sink and the cooker. I am looking at it and cannot decide fully where i want it. I have an idea in my head. I will try and explain this as best i can, if not i will try scan the plans of the room.

It's a kitchen/dining room.
The dining room part is at the front of the house, with kitchen looking out the back.
The width of the room is 4m. Length is 9.4m. The dining room takes up 4.4m and the kitchen 5m. The
The kitchen part itself has a window on the left wall that gets sun in the afternoon, it looks out on a patio area, the back wall has a window that gets evening sun that looks out on a ditch behind the garden. The third wall has a door the leads to the utility

Would you put units on all three walls?
Would you put the sink at the side or back window.
Depending on which wall you'd put the sink where would you put a double oven and a hob.
Also the fridge. I am thinking of having that on the wall that has the door to the utility. What would you suggest.

sydthebeat

in designing a kitchen you have a 'holy trinity' of elements

1. storage
2. wash
3. cooking

so its generally a good idea to have your sink, fridge / food storage and cooking facilities located all with a small triangle of each other.

when locating a sink, its a good idea to think about the person standing at it and communicating with the room.

Going Demented

I am going to be the one standing at the sink.
If i put the sink at the back wall the triangle would be small, but my back is to everyone.
If i put it at the other window i am not sure where the oven and hob would go.
The units would be going on all three walls, as a U shape.

sydthebeat

you could put the sink in the peninsula facing the dining space, the cooker could go in the corner of the LHS and rear walls, and the fridge go somewhere inbetween on the LHS wall

1865

You also have to thing about the amount of time that you will soens at the sink itself and when you will do so.

For my money I would put the sink by the back window. You will have natural light by the sink and as it is a place that you can't put wall units, it makes sense to put the sink there - to maximise where you can put wall units.

You don't spend that much time actually standing at a sink, compared to the amount of time that you spend at the cooker and worktops, so don't worry too much about that.

Think about what you would put by the window if you didn't put a sink there and remember that you need a bit of headroom by a sink so you need a space without wall units ovber the sink.

If you put the sink in an island in the kitchen, you have to get the water and wasted to the sink and across the floor.

Finally, there is a reason why the sink is by the window in most houses - because it works very well there. But it might be different for you and you will be stuck with it so take your time over making the decision.

Going Demented

Thank you. It will definitely be by the window, i just don't know which window makes more sense. I don't spend a while heap of time at the sink, i have never used a dishwasher though.

I think i will go with it on the back wall and then cooking/worktop area on the lhs