Close to giving up - kitchen help really needed pretty please

[RandomMess]

Utility plans have had to be shelved for complicated boundary issues so big compromises have to be made.

Builder is starting work on 1st August and we are moving out, kitchen needs to be completely gutted.

So I assume it is a really bad idea to have the fridge freezer next to the built in oven (they will be offset but the back of the FF will overlap the built in oven by 25cm, so FF will stick out into the room (due to walls) or I could have them at right angles to each other provided I can get the FF door open!

Another option if we do the right angle idea would be to have an american FF but this would be at the expense of having a 30cm pull out larder cupboard - no other tall cupboard.

Can't have a really tall FF as I'm only 5' tall which is a bit of an issue!

Help??????????????????????????

[discrete]

Can you have them at right angles but with enough space for a corner larder in the angle between?

[RandomMess]

don't think kitchen range does a corner larder.............................

But I'm right that we can't put FF next to built in oven can we?

[londonmackem]

I have had my fridge freezer next to a built in oven for years with no probs. Seal of fridge away from oven. Only time I ever had a problem was in a rented house with seal next to oven and housemate left oven on for 24 hours - melted the seal slightly but no defrosting of anything.

[RandomMess]

I had just assumed that it would be inefficient having a heating appliance next to a cooling appliance.........

[said]

Not ideal but Howdens kitchen planner came up with the same for us

[NemesisoftheVole]

You're right about inefficiency of the FF next to the oven. Might cause the motors to overwork themselves and/or to frost up your freezer. No other reason not to put them next to one another though.