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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of rowhouses on the Hill are 20 feet (or wider). in a 20 foot wide kitchen you can have countertop (24)+space between that and island (48)+wide island (36) and still have 8 feet for a full sized table in a kitchen. And that's with a [b]monstrous 48 between the island and countertop[/b]. [/quote]

I love 4 ft of space [b]defined as monstrous [/b]:)

That said, a lot of rowhouses that are 20ft wide on the facade actually have narrower kitchens, because the kitchen is in the dogleg addition.  Our house is 14 ft wide from the street, and the kitchen narrows to 11 ft!  20 ft would indeed be monstrous ... [/quote]

Anything more than 4' between island and countertop across creates usability issues. That has nothing to do with how big your kitchen is. Even if you had a 6000 square foot mcmansion this would still be true. So, yeah, that's about the maximum anyone who actually cooks would want. (Yes, if you need it wheelchair accessible then you need more, but don't be that guy who replies to point that out.)

A couple of other notes. Your house is narrow, even by Hill standards. Also, that small of a dogleg is actually no longer permitted for fire code reasons. So if you renovated/added on you'd have to fill it in.
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