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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might have missed this in the previous posts but have you thought about switching the living room and kitchen and making the kitchen more centrallly located in the plan?  It looks like you’d be able to get a large island there, a window for the sink and the living room would be the room that opens up to the back yard. [/quote]

Thanks! That is the other floor plan that I have thought about. There are a few things that make me think it is better in the back, do any of these factors affect your opinion?

1. If the living room is in the middle, there can be a skylight in the living room. If the kitchen is in the middle, the skylight is not possible (because it would be blocked by upper cabinets). Light is at such a premium in rowhouses, that having a skylight seems like a pretty big pro.

2. There will be a small porch off the back french doors, where a grill is kept (so you'd have to walk through the living room with anything grilled). The porch is VERY small though, no room for seating. It is literally just to hold the grill and for stairs down to the backyard.

3. The backyard is small. There is basically space for the stairs to walk down from the first floor and up from the basement. A very small concrete patio and then parking for two cars. The living room will not really "open up" to a nice large back yard area. You'll mostly see our cars. To be outdoors, we will go up to the third floor roof deck where there will be a couch and a dining table.

4. This particular block has alley house. So across the alley from my backyard is someone's house (i.e. a front door, their second floor has windows looking at my first floor). So they have a pretty good view into the back of the house. Would it be better to have the living room in the middle for privacy?

Here is plan of the backyard in case it helps visually:

[img]https://i.ibb.co/qycTMyW/99-C2204-D-D4-F9-4143-BDE5-5439-DF9-D8-D2-D.png[/img][/quote]

Yes.  I see your points.  How tall are your ceilings?  Were you planning on bringing the kitchen cabinets all the way up?  If not then maybe the skylight can still work there.  Is the skylight existing? If so - does it really bring in a lot of daylight right next to the side wall of another rowhouse?  When I was redoing my kitchen I found this image on Houzz that I just loved.  I'm in a SFH, but I thought this was a brilliant use of space in this Chicago rowhouse.  Hopefully the link will work.  It's probably wider than yours, but it just seemed like a really nice living/ kitchen combo space with large windows out the back.  If you do feel the kitchen is best in the back, I like other's comments about adding an island - perhaps with seating on one end -  and leaving out cabinets altogether on the dog leg side or make them shallow like one of your plan versions.  And like others I don't care for that peninsula that narrows the entry to the kitchen too much.     https://www.houzz.com/photos/lincoln-park-residence-traditional-chicago-phvw-vp~27619954[/quote]

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