Could I set back my cooker into the chimney breast?

9 years ago

Hi I wonder if anyone has any advice? We moved into a converted chapel last year and the kitchen, although we like it with its tall windows and shiny granite work tops, there are things we feel could have been done better. I know the developer went over budget and think he was keen to just get it finished and move on. In an ideal world I'd like to open up the old fireplace to centrally recess the cooker and build an extractor above. I have seen kitchens on here that look like solutions - I have attached a pic to describe. I know it would probably involve having to get extra granite cut, (and some chopped off) but I don't know about how problematic doing the structural alterations would be. Is there anyone who has done something similar?

There's a fair bit of dead space in at the back of the base corner unit at the moment as you can see from the attached photo. Being quite short, this doesn't help me accessing the above units! Also, with only a 30cm door corner unit, it's quite a battle putting the dishes away. To cut out that extra deep worktop would mean I would gain 30cm of door width, enabling me to have a standard 60x120 corner cupboard with those fantastic swing out stomach mechanisms.

Sorry if I have just given you brain ache with my kitchen woes and measurements, I'm just hoping to benefit from someone's experience if possible, so thanks for reading!

Vicky x

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Jonathan
9 years ago
That chimney breast isn't wide enough to set your range into it. You could instead fake it: Box out the chimney breast to make it wider and sit the range on the front of the chimney breast in the middle of the space. Get your builder to make a canopy like the one in picture three and put an extractor in there.

This is quite a lot of expense as you will end up with a bill for new granite, extra cabinets and the builder but I think that this will give you the look you are after
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OnePlan
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Oh dear ! That's a bit of a mistake to put an appliance next to one of those types of corners - but to do it twice is a disaster !!
A simple solution, might be to move the right cupboard into the place where bins are and put open shelving either side of the cooker - as then the door will be able to open father back in one side - it wouldn't work with just moving the end cabinet to there as the drawer handle would still clash- even if you changed the door handing to move the lower handle out of the way - simple shelves you can buy from somewhere like ikea or a local kitchen shop ?! and the door should open back further - different hinges might help too (not sure which they have put on ? )
Then re use the stone top either side of the cooker and buy a new deeper top ( chopping block might be nice ) over the recessed bit do you have a deep worktop with the cupboard still in line and space for a bin next to it ?!
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