The cooking room

Kitchen 

And now the real work begins. Where do we start. First this was an addition to the house. The original home in the 1870s probably had the kitchen and out house seperate from the main house. This latter addition would have been around 1910ish when indoor plumbing was starting to come around for the wealthy. The floor is laminate tile (gone). The cabinets are gone. Look the kitchen is a gut. The doors are amazing and the light is unreal in this room. 

Funny story. The women who lives there now is running her washer which is leaking through this hole to the kitchen sink below. I think we might need to fix that. 

We need to do something with this corner. Not a ton of space in here for counters and upper cabinets. 

So not sure if the orange wall paper'd box on the top of the cabinets are anything useful. Would love to blow that out to get bigger uppers in there and use the height of the room for storage 

Back door has issues. Don't we all? 

Fridge is going in this hole which we will blow out to accommodate a bigger fridge. 

Another angle before I show you our rendered idea. 

We wanted to take advantage of the space we had and a true island won't work. We are going to try an open galley concept. Restore the wood floors and create an open eating area right off the back door. 3 spots hit this area and 9 additional LED lights with undermount lighting under the top cabinets.

This is a nice view while you are cooking. 

Another view of the traffic flow. The triangle is intact with only the fridge in the flow of traffic. The prep and cooking area get direct access to the fridge which is hidden flush with the wall on the right. Additional storage is provided on the backside of the connected island. The island countertop will extend on the left all the way to the wall but couldn't get the rendering to let me do it. Also the eating space will be standard bar height rising above the cooking surface so people don't burn themselves. - hello children.

Four feet of space will accommodate two people cooking or partying it up.