I designed an unfitted English kitchen in our last home (an English cottage). I ended up ordering custom pieces from England via a local store that was ordering custom furniture from the cabinetmaker. The island had sink/DW and drawers over doors. Opposite wall was range with no uppers (I wanted to hang art.)
I had one hutch in the kitchen,
and another between kitchen and laundry room - this is what you saw when entering via the garage (on our plans, that was the original coat closet - the hutch was much prettier!). This also served as a coffee station.
The cabinet to right of SxS was deep and had tray storage below, middle cabinet was tallest section and had 3 shelves for the dishes we used the most. The tiny upper cabinet I didn't use at all.
In this last photo, there is a walk-in pantry through the arch on the right, where I had the trim carpenter build me potting bench style table for microwave, blender and a place to put down groceries. Drinks were stored below.
The wall across from table was floor to ceiling shelves. It holds more than it looks like. The only food items stored in kitchen were spices and oils.
The kitchen and pantry worked well for us (2 adult empty nesters, then DD1 moved in. 3 adult children, SOs, 2 grandchildren and lots of pets on holidays.
We recently remodeled our new home and gutted the kitchen. I wanted another English kitchen, but not an unfitted style. Again, more in line with the house. The only reason I bring it up in your thread is because our island does not have sink the time (and is smaller, which saddened me in the beginning, but has proven to be a winner). I did all drawers in the island. Given a do-over in the first English kitchen, I would have done drawers on the great room side of the island and either side of range.
I started this kitchen with the "wall of doors" - freezer tower, fridge tower, pantry, pantry, coffee station (microwave above a pull out/counter level with 2 drawers below). This kitchen was built locally.
The island has 6 drawers on sink side (silverware, glass storage containers and 3 drawers of dishes and drinking glasses). The other side has 4 drawers, shown below has one has vertical pan storage - love - a few more dishes, mixing bowls, etc.
I also did drawers on either side of the island (spice drawer and cooking utensils/can openers/ etc on either side/top. Larger drawers hold larger spice containers, measuring cups/spoons, and 2 of pots/pans. Just like the other kitchen, I use one of the bottom drawers for CD storage.
This house has a walk-thru pantry to basement. It was originally L-shaped stairs. I gutted that and just did one wall with counter (below storage large dog/cat food containers; 3 shelves) and above the counter has two open shelves for vases and seldom used items. No food stored here, as there is plenty of room in the two kitchen "door" pantries.
We have been in this house 3 months and the kitchen works great for us. We cook several meals a day. I really like all the drawers vs doors in this kitchen.
A couple of questions about your floor plan - what is the double sliding door closet that backs up to walk-in pantry? It isn't opposite of a door, so not needed as a coat closet. Also, what is the small room opposite of that closet? There seems to be a lot of smaller areas with closets - mudroom? One across from bench?
I have enjoyed reading your threads to date, and look forward to seeing your new home take shape.
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