Kitchen design advice!

[Castlelough]

Hi I need a little advice about where to put my freezer!

In my new kitchen plan, along one of the long walls, I am going to have a row of tall units - a double door larder press (100cm) a tall integrated fridge, a 60cm bank of units (eye-height oven/drawer/cupboard etc).

I had been planning on putting a tall integrated freezer into my utility room.

There IS space to put it beside the tall integrated fridge in the kitchen. This would give me much more scope to use the small utility room as a 'bootroom'/storage area. It really only has one wall of 200cm wide and has a door opening on each of the other short walls. Taking the freezer out of there gives me
better design options...

....but does a freezer belong in the kitchen? Will the heat of the kitchen affect the efficiency of the freezer?

My kitchen fitter is coming tomorrow to measure up and finalise the plans...so I'd really appreciate some advice!

I'd go for as big a sink as poss - swarfega gets everywhere. The cleaning sink sounds like a good idea to me. We've just done our kitchen up and I found that although the planners were good they don't really understand what it's like to have to go and check the cows at 11pm on a rainy wet oct night - every single one wanted us to knock through the kitchen and utility when the utility was a major factor in us buying the house (we live in the village not on the farm).

I've got one 2 year old and 1 on the way and the best thing I did was put in a double oven. Again, food quantities for farmers are on a bit of a different scale. My mum intended to switch off her aga as much as you but doesn't because it's so great to cook on with the space.

Thanks Peanut, it has been really helpful to get other people's perspectives on this! Especially people who deal with wet and mud and farmers on a daily basis!!!

Six would bench work got you in your bootroom if dripping wet things were first hung in a different place and then hung over the bench when dried off a bit. Or is that a bit of a faff? I like the idea of having some sort of bench/worktop for dumping a certain amount on or under...

Yes, I think it would.