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Looks pretty fantastic....big project!
The kitchen is not dissimilar in size and design to ours. Looks like you have space for a wider island if you wanted (is it 90cm wide?) which would give some extra space when sitting on the bar stools. We thought long and hard about how to get all the utilities off the island and I'm glad we did.
Having a hob on the island brings the extraction problem (there are solutions but either fiddly or expensive), and a sink on the island means the washing up in there, looking untidy until it's all done and put away.
One option is to have a smaller sink on the island and then fashion a larger washing up area in the utility roo. Then you can at least have the washing up away from the main kitchen/dining area when you have people over.
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Thanks - yep we'll be moving out for a while but wanted to just get it done in as much of one big chunk as possible. Will see if we come to regret. Need to think about sink/hob - Im fairly set on the Gaggeneau Vario system for mix of induction and gas burners and not wanting a small sink because they suck. Venting from an island does seem a bit of a pita and I'd rather spend that money elsewhere.
Tenderloin
Here are the plans - we've not got to the full plans for planning but that is the next stage. Also no itemised costs but a high level view. The outlined costs for this work, they have estimated to be £280-320k all in which is 30% over what we had given as our budget. I know they've specced a ton of bespoke cabinetry etc which won't be cheap, so think there is a good amount of room to sharpen the pencil on this.