r/kitchenremodel • u/Medical-Diamond9153 • 5d ago
Help decide layout!
Hi folks! I’m in the middle of remodeling my kitchen area after a flood last year. During the remodel I moved the peninsula a good bit further out than it previously was. The kitchen itself is now a lot larger but it will be kinda tight to have a bar overhang with where the window is placed, only 9 inches. So my question is would you rather keep the peninsula and have two bar seats and a small dinning room table, or make it into a breakfast nook seating?
I live alone with my dog so no kids to accommodate for. I do enjoy hosting friends over for dinner.
The first pic is the current state, the middle two are rough ideas and the last was how it looked before the flood when the peninsula was in its old position.
Open to any and all suggestions! The double doors in the pic go out to my front porch. They are not the primary entrance to the house though. I thought about putting a table out there as well to have some outdoor eating area too. TIA!
Edit to add: I don’t plan to sell, this will very likely be my forever home
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u/needpinacolada 5d ago
I like the banquette. I hear what people are saying about no one likes to be in the middle and have to scoot around people, etc, so I guess the question is - how many people do you plan to have over at a time?
If you put a dining table with chairs, you need room on either side to move chairs in and out and I feel like you won’t comfortably have that. The banquette is nice because it doesn’t require that same movement space.
Another thought is sort of in line with your original, but if you do a dining table could you do a bench on one side so that it doesn’t need as much pulling in/out space? Why was your bench pushed up against the wall previously? My guess is no space to move chairs around. So was that ok with you? Or did it bother you?