I have room in the panel now, that’s not the problem. Was just thinking it would be more economical to run one big circuit from the basement up to the kitchen and do the breakout there versus running 4-6 new individual circuits all that way.

Upgrading to a 200A panel is on the horizon though not right at this moment.

Unfortunately, time and money are factors. Not that I want to cheap out, I just thought maybe a sub panel might be more economical.

They wouldn’t know to check the kitchen has its own sub panel.

I mean, when there’s only a 40 amp breaker labeled “Kitchen S/P” I think they’d figure it out.

The kitchen would be the only room with a subpanel.

As stated in the post, the oven is already on a dedicated 30A circuit, and I’m not going to mess with that. There’s an empty void near the oven, though, and my thought was to run another 30 amp circuit up beside that to feed the subpanel and place it in that “void”. Decorating isn’t a concern for the void as there’s not much that can really go there anyway.

Definitely want to future proof it, yeah. I’m not married to 30 amp delivery to it, just used that as a reference point.

NEC requires 2 different 20 amp circuits for counter top use, 15 amps is not allowed,

That I didn’t know (or rather, haven’t read yet). Current ones are on 15 amp circuits, so I was going by that (not that previous owners seemed too concerned with “code” LOL).

Stove’s already on a dedicated breaker.

This is the US and we only have split-phase (two ‘hot’ legs at 120v on each end of a center-tap transformer)