My SIL has a new house, built in the last 5 years, and the kitchen SUCKS. There's a big island in the middle of it that makes it impossible to make a trip to an

My SIL has a new house, built in the last 5 years, and the kitchen SUCKS. There's a big island in the middle of it that makes it impossible to make a trip to any other part of the kitchen in a straight line and its so big that it is hard to walk past someone else in the kitchen. I'm in an 80's apartment and it has all kinds of issues mainly related to having hardly any space for storage and it's all in the wrong place anyway. But since I am a fan of Adam Savage and watched his cave evolve especially with his new paradigm of a shopping area and a work area, I recently had an idea for rearranging my kitchen. There are three areas of the kitchen the work area (sink, prep, and stove), the storage area (pantry, refrigerator), and the eating area (table, dishes). When you are getting ready to prepare food you need ingredients from the storage area, and tools (knives, cutting boards, bowls) and it needs to be near the sink for washing and the trash for waste. Then the prepared food can move to the cooking area which has the stove, pots and pans, hot pads, and utensils. The eating area needs easy access to getting the hot food to the table and getting table ware (dishes, glasses, silverware) to the table from storage and to the sink/dishwasher/trash for cleanup. It's like a fractal of triangles to design a functional kitchen.