the basic plan

Remember our floor plan from before?  Focus on that rectangle at the top; that's where all the change will occur.

Current kitchen layout.  That dotted line is the peninsula that has to go.

First draft of our future kitchen layout.  Florida turns into Hawaii (peninsula turns into an island).  My ideal kitchen has the sink below a window so you can look outside, but since that's not really an option, the best alternative is on the island facing the backyard windows.  Double oven leaves left wall next to range to provide more counter space, lands on back wall which turns into a bank of counters/cabinets.

This is flashing forward, but we spent several hours designing cabinets at Lowes with Bernie, who was extremely nice.  They're not allowed to give you the dimensions from the CAD or anything, but he gave us the renderings of the cabinets themselves.  So this is a more professional idea of our hopeful floor plan.