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Advice really needed about oven hood please.

last year

This is my first post.

We are part way through adding an open plan kitchen / dining area and sitting room to our new extension.

We have one short wall of full height cupboards (fridge freezer and larder) but other than that we have no wall cupboards as we feel that will help the space feel light and airy.

I intended to put some sort of chimney style hood over the hob.

But now it comes to it I’m worried that it will look odd, and sort of ‘plonked’ onto the open wall space. I’ve realised that most hoods are flanked by wall cupboards which seems to look better. Wall cupboards aren’t an option for us.

We will be adding a small upstand to the worktop but no tiles so I’d intended to also pop a splashback behind the hob and under the hood. But again, I’m now worried that this will look odd in the space. Maybe it would look better to make the splashback longer horizontally than the hob and hood?

I’ve attached a photo of part of our unfinished kitchen. Hopefully you can see the gas hob. Two identical ovens will go into the space underneath the hob. The small pillar to the left of the hob is a steel and can’t be removed.

I’ve also added a few photos that I’ve found online which might help explain what I mean as I think the hobs and / or splashbacks look a bit strange.

I’m overwhelmed by choice. Husband thinks I’m being ridiculous. Can anyone offer any thoughts or advice please?

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Comments (9)

Juliet Docherty
last year
Personally I'm not keen on a splashback piece of steel or glass as it seems to create a vertical focal point to something that's not the most attractive thing in a kitchen. If it were mine I would tile the whole wall (as it's an isolated square) and use tiles that have a lovely texture or pattern. Kind of like this but without the cupboards.
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The Living House
last year
Hi A A, it can feel overwhelming with the decisions you need to make, we understand. We quite often recommend tiles to our customers only in the parts of the kitchen where needed such as the splashback, behind the sink etc. Only using tiles in areas where needed is a more modern look.

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Ruth House
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Hi, this photo is the kitchen we put in at our old house. We loved it and we really miss it! I prefer no wall cupboards and we've just designed our new kitchen to have none also. I also am not keen on extensive tiling or splash backs, just what is necessary. As you can see we only had the stainless steel to fir below the hood. Although I will say you need to use kitchen paint on walls so the bit either side is wipeable.
Jonathan
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I am also a fan of no wall cupboards……. However in your room the structural pier to the left of the hob makes the hob area seem smaller and a run of wall cupboards that: include an integrated extractor, and cover the pier would help visually widen the space.

You should then either have worktop material up to the cabinets, or a piece of worktop the width of the extractor cupboard, or you should forget an upstand altogether and use tiles.
siobhanmcgee90
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How about a few floating shelves and one lining up with the extractor. Agree on the steel splashback. Would tile the entire wall in that section.
Wumi
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Agree with Jonathan, the pier makes the hob area appear enclosed. You can hide an extractor in a upper cupboard and have open shelves with cook books, some nice scales /crockery/ kitchenaid/ plants etc.

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Looks like you have a laminate worktop, i assume that your upstand will also be matching and a laminate. Fitting this behind the hob shouldn't be done as it won't comply to gas safe regs as its an inflammable surface. What ever splash back you choose it needs to be heatproof, ie glass, tiles or stainless steel and not laminate.
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I love a wall cupboard - who can live without the storage😀 for yours I would treat that whole section from pier to wall as hob area and probably get a glass backsplash for the whole width. Then sitting an extractor hood above that should look fine. Once done you decide if you need shelving etc.
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Hi, we did our kitchen recently and had a coloured glass splashback with the cooker extraction hood which was angled. from the bottom and out more at the top. Nobody has hit their head which is always an issue with cooker hoods lets face it, also there is no loss of function. We have a large kitchen and the hood still manages to shut the door on high power!.

Our our walls are white but the hood was black, some of the hoods can be painted a contrasting colour to match your surrounding tiling/glass/paint. This is what we did.

Either way good luck with the reno.

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