Please critique my kitchen design
Kitchen fitter booked for October this year. The attached design has been completed provisionally but with scope for changes.
Island is approx 3m x 1.2m at present. Not sure if overpowering for the space.
Any feedback/advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance, Steve
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Jonathan
last yearI’m not keen.
The fridge is the first thing you see when you enter the best room in your house, there isn’t much working space between the sink and hob but mainly the thing I don’t like is that having enough circulation space behind the island for stools you have to move the sofa. This means that the front of the sofa will be less than 2 metres from the wall in front meaning the space for furniture for a TV limits what other furniture you can have- although two extra sofas are drawn I don’t think you will have room for them
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last yearThank you all for the helpful ideas and discussion.
Any comments on the actual kitchen layout specifically unrelated to the layout of the room/positioning? Is the worktop with both the sink and induction job sufficient at 3.2m? Lack of symmetry an issue with the tall units on one side the low level on the other?
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last yearlast modified: last yearHi Steve. Your reduced depth base units underneath the island overhang are difficult to access. Depending where you are buying your units from it maybe possible to get extra deep base units, the ones in the photo attached are 705mm deep. You then do not need access from the back.
I would also suggest increasing the depth of your sink worktop to a minimum of 650mm. Depending on your choice of wall covering and the thickness of it you will find that most hobs will have a minimum required gap between the back edge and the wall, less than this gap will invalidate the guarantee. The extra deep worktop also makes it much easier to clean behind the sink/tap area and more importantly creates a useful channel behind your base units for the services. If you do this you need to extend the panel to the side of the oven housing to suit.
This will also help to make the side by side Fridge Freezer look better, these are often much deeper front to back than the adjacent tall units and can look unsightly if they stick out too far.
One more point about your island, if you take the suggestion of the deeper base units you do not need a 1200 deep worktop to ensure a suitable overhang for your stools. You often need to pay a premium to obtain 1200 deep worktop depending upon the material you choose.
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