I am in the middle of designing my new kitchen using diykitchens.co.uk. I am going for a solid wood shaker style door in a dark grey with white stone worktop and timber worktop for the island. Please feel free to cirque. I’m open to all feedback and recommendations.
Hi, I’m assuming you would prep at the island with the hob behind you, if so, I would prefer the tall storage items behind me. So I would swap the fridge and hob over. I’d also put a small sink in the hob.
I personally would skip the mini sink, the shallow return tall cabinets and the small fridge (?) under the island. The shallow tall cupboards don't offer a lot more usable space and i think the kitchen would look better without them. Unless you have something very specific in mind for the mini sink, I think it will not get slot of use. And the undercounter fridge seems unnecessary as it's so close to a large fridge. Maybe you could pop your WM in a cupboard on the fridge wall. And then pop in a DW next to the sink. Kitchens are fun to design. 👍🏻
I think it looks really top heavy with all the wall units. I think you could just have shelves or at least at one side, would make it look nicer. Do you really need all the wall storage?
I’m not a lover of American fridge freezers. I always feel as though they are the first thing you notice when you walk in a kitchen, stand out like a sore thumb and detract from the smooth flow of a fitted kitchen. Could you replace this with a full height fridge and a full height freezer?
You don’t need the additional fridge unless it’s supposed to be something else and the image wasn’t available on the DIY website. Could you make that a wine chiller?
If the range cooker or FF needs replacing - I’m not sure just how you’d do it with the island in the way . Do you definitely want both of these items as large freestanding pieces ??! Building in might give better accessibly.
Starting with the shallow depth larders, I would remove these, the 900 corner larder would be really difficult to access into the corner especially at the top shelves. Then on the fridge freezer wall i'd make use of the extra space by having 2x 800 larders either side of the fr/frz, for the fr/frz you need to check the spec as i think the gap you have is to small for most american fr/frz so you might need a larger top box. The base corner unit, i'd lose the sink or if you do need a sink near the range i'd move it round the corner. On the range wall, i'd change the 1200 drawer line (have to be carfeull with drawers and corners) and possibly change to a 300 or 400 hi line (small sink in this instead?) and have either a 900 or 800 pan drawers to balance the drawers on the other side. For the wall units I'd consider getting rid of the corner L and have a blind corner instead (blind corner you can make your own corner post and gives you more flexibility) and i wouldn't have the wall units so close to the extractor so its easier to clean and decorate around the extractor (and if its an induction top the extractor is advised to be larger than the hob top). For the other side of the range the drawers are fine and if you like corner L units thats fine (I prefer blind corner units and make my own corner posts) wall units may need changing to match any changes on the other side. On the sink wall i'd lose the 150 pull out beside the belfast sink and i'd have an integrated washing machine, I would also consider having a dishwasher though. For the island i'd lose the fridge (or integrate it) as this is causing gaps on the back of the island due to the extra decor panel, I'd have a pull out bin instead.
Don’t know if already mentioned but you won’t be able to access the left side of the final wall unit near the window/larger sink. You won’t be able to open the door and reach around it.
I have amended my design and come up with the below. I already have the 2 fridges and washing machine and would like to keep them. I’d like the extra sink too for kids and when we have guests round to wash hands etc.
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