Kitchen alley width

[Spinny]

Any views on the reasonable minimum alley width in a kitchen between wall worktop and island worktop ?

Thinking of going down to 870mm.

[JOE187]

I have 900mm from fridge handle to island and works well for access!

[ProDave]

We have 1200mm and would not want less.  But that is because a dishwasher door opens into that gap.

[FarmerN]

870mm is fine to open a dishwasher.

At 1100mm can open dishwasher and draw in island at same time ,to unload dishwasher, but not walk between when both are open.

Not sure how it would work if it was a cupboard instead of draw.

How valuable is the space on the other side of the island? Space for dinning table ?

Compromises as ever.

[ProDave]

52 minutes ago, FarmerN said:

870mm is fine to open a dishwasher.

At 1100mm can open dishwasher and draw in island at same time ,to unload dishwasher, but not walk between when both are open.

At 1200 we can open the dishwasher and one of the drawers on the island to empty stuff into and just squeeze through the gap.

 

The minimum you can tolerate will depend a lot on what is there in your particular situation.

[Super_Paulie]

1200mm gives me this dream scenario, much like Dave.