I think this looks like a great floor plan for what you are trying to do. Can an island be made in a kitchen 12x14. I can depending on your cabinet layout. Another solution is to incorporate a galley style from a peninsula configuration. Play with your cabinet layout. Base cabinets are 24" deep and a good walkway/clearance is 4'. You may want to consider a portable island that tucks under the countertop and can be pulled out and moved for additional prep space. The space is tight and you'll want good access to the traffic pattern from the hall, through the kitchen and into the dining area. Look at photos on houzz for U shaped small kitchens, and also portable islands. This will give you some great examples. Good luck.

I think a comfortable distance between the island and the counter is around 42". It seems that you have only 30" between your cook top and the counter. I might be a little too tight. The wall between the entrance and the kitchen could be 4' long instead of 6', you would then be able to move the island a foot which would give you more room between the cook top and the island. Could you switch the location of the toilet and vanity in your dad's bathroom so your enter facing a vanity instead of a toilet which is a lot nicer.

I am so happy to see you here! I will have to go back and see if i can retrieve my posts... thought I would make them into a little book for my daughter, with photos. Quick run-down on the bathroom (not travels, no time) - The kitchen has a rather elegant sliding door with beveled glass panels. Painted white, since this was the original colour. GD's new bathroom has the doors I had picked earlier; i thought of polishing them but decided sprayed automobile paint (on a resin primer) would wear better. Especially since it is such a small bathroom, and she is so splashy. I have this finish in my kitchen and it has lasted 15 years now. A tad chipped here and there, but only needs a wipe down once a week. Same finish for the balcony doors, also split like the bathroom. We have a new wardrobe, a study table with built-in shelves, and a small chest of drawers for her odds and ends. I want to re-tile the tiny balcony, more as a little statement. Currently we are looking at Portuguese tiles, though I did think a mosaic with a funky cat might be nice. Let me see the costing. The room will be painted a neutral adobe, with bright white woodwork and an off-white ceiling. This means she can go wild with cushions and covers. Other changes in the flat; We have changed the glass in the master bedroom and living room from small cramped panes to a single pane for each section with a 1" bevel all round. Doubles the cost of the glass, but looks so elegant! The air-conditioning is being re-located. The compressors were all mounted in the bedroom and living room balconies, which looked terrible and meant the balconies (very narrow, only 30" deep) couldn't be used for anything. Not even plants. So they are being moved so that the compressors can be mounted at the rear of the building. two down, one to go. Now we can put in some nice plants, fishtail palms etc. The kitchen counter on one side came out intact and will be reused elsewhere. I am planning overhead storage, cupboards, and a draining cupboard for plates and glasses. Right now there is no dish washer, though a place is earmarked, but for now I will put in a cupboard with steel racks for cups, glasses and plates, all hidden behind pressed glass doors. This is all in the planning stage.... Pictures in a little while, they are mostly on my ipad and don't transfer well to the mac. They come without numbers... so I have to rename the or something. Somebody tell me how to do this!

What type of advice are you looking for - what kind of western toilet to buy? We are remodeling a similar size bathroom. If you are looking for help picking a toilet, I can post some options here. We wanted one that had a smaller tank in the back but still be elongated. Took us a long time to find one we liked. Most elongated toilets are roughly 17" wide. If you got a 17" toilet with a 24" vanity, that's roughly 3 1/2 feet - leaves you a little room between the vanity, the toilet and the walls without looking too crowded. You could also go with a 21" vanity.