For 50 years, everyone designed kitchens around the "Work Triangle"—the path between the sink, the stove, and the refrigerator. That concept is completely, totally dead. It was designed for one person, doing one task, in a closed-off room.
Modern kitchens aren't for one person. They're the new living room. They're where kids do homework, where guests congregate, and where multiple people are working at once. That's why we don't design "triangles"; we design "zones."
We just finished a kitchen in Naples where the family lives in this space. Instead of a triangle, we designed dedicated, overlapping zones. On one wall, we built the "Beverage Zone," with the coffee maker, wine fridge, and ice maker, so a guest could get a drink without ever crossing into the cooking area. The island has its own small "Prep Zone" sink. The main sink is in a "Cleanup Zone," and the range is in the "Cooking Zone."
The result? The host can be cooking a large meal while someone else is at the prep sink, and kids are at the island, and no one is in each other's way.
My professional recommendation: Before you talk to a contractor about cabinet colors, make a list of your kitchen habits. How do you make coffee? Where do the groceries get dropped? Where do the kids do homework? A good designer builds a kitchen around your workflow and your life, not around an outdated, 1950s "triangle."