For your consideration ...
I would add, before you start down the kitchen remodel road, is to pencil out all the elements of the work you want to have done. If you are demoing the floors to the plywood and walls to the studs, it is a great/super opportunity to add, or remove and add, and rearrange things.
So get out that measuring tape and put on paper the raw overall dimensions of your kitchen area including the window locations, then add the elements, electrical outlets, stove location, sink, refrigerator, cabinets, recessed lighting locations, etc.. This will become your blueprint. It is also great, when applying the new floor, to take that new flooring wall to wall so that the new floor cabinets can rest upon it. It makes things like leveling so much easier. Also, you might want to consider getting a cabinet depth refrigerator so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. And be sure to account for the total width of a new refrigerator, or your current one, when measuring out everything for a perfect fit.
And .... for the area above the stove, to have plenty of openness, ensure that only a vent hood is used and mounted at the maximum height, 36" above the stove to the bottom of the vent, under a shorter top cabinet. You will be surprised how much better it is to have all that space above the stove opened up.