If you are a designer (or have the mindset of one) you can spend a significant amount of time thinking about this. Both my girlfriend and I are rooted in design and we were thinking 3 days about how to order things in the kitchen, where to put the sink, the stove, the fridge, preperation areas, cuttlery, garbage, etc. We drew out the routes and movements for common tasks on each variant and iterated through it, till we got a combination that seemed to be very efficient and didn't look too odd.

And it totally paid off. Investing a few days of thinking and planing to avoid something that might annoy you for years to come is totally worth it.