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Kitchen Design Help/Sanity Check (Obligatory Diagram Included)

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SorryNotSorry · 10/02/2018 16:49

So we have realised after 6 months of designing and with our planning application already submitted that we can't fit everything we want (two ovens side by side, 1m larder and integrated larder fridge and larder freezer side by side) into our new kitchen extension.
Decided to compromise on the fridge and freezer and go for a freestanding american fridge freezer.
We came up with a plan which gives us everything we think we want but our kitchen designer said that he would make us sign a waiver before he would order it because it was such a bad design :(
His reasons are that the fridge freezer will be the first thing you see as you walk into the room.
He suggests that we have a larder unit as you walk into the room and the american fridge in between the two ovens.
I am attaching pictures of the design as we imagined it and pictures of an american fridge between two eye level ovens.
Please help us to decide we are agonising over spending a lot of money on what might prove to be a mistake.
Does anybody have a fridge as the first thing you see when you walk into your kitchen/house ( if the kitchen door is open)?
Do you hate it?
What would you do with the space?

Kitchen Design Help/Sanity Check (Obligatory Diagram Included)
Kitchen Design Help/Sanity Check (Obligatory Diagram Included)
Kitchen Design Help/Sanity Check (Obligatory Diagram Included)
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SorryNotSorry · 11/02/2018 16:48

@bobkate

sorry I am not making the visuals myself. We have visited 4 kitchen designers so what I am sharing is the images they have sent us.

I think the best one I have found for creating a 3D visual is on the magnet website although it is quite limited and also they have changed it since I last looked.

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jigster01 · 11/02/2018 16:59

I was worried about height and how low also .The kitchen co.came back to me and suggested that height we had chosen was really deemed unsafe so I had the tape measure out again and again.We all agreed on -bottom of oven 60cm from floor then next oven sits directly on top at 120cm and then over head cupboard at 180 cm ....we do have extra tall units.It is a perfect height and no bending or tip toeing!
I agree also that your integrated FF at end looks far better than American

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bobkate · 11/02/2018 17:03

The last visuals are fantastic - so helpful if you have find it hard to visualise the end result ( like me! )

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titchy · 11/02/2018 17:11

Last one is by far the best - but the wall cupboard by your window I'd turn into a full depth tall cupboard that sits on top on the work top - it'll be super awkward otherwise.

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BrandNewHouse · 11/02/2018 21:12

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Angryosaurus · 11/02/2018 21:21

Link please @brandneehouse. That would be amazing!!

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Baxdream · 11/02/2018 23:19

Personally I chose to get rid of an ice dispenser in order to have a built in fridge freezer. Those last pictures are gorgeous.
We have a single oven and combi in a tower. It's plenty for us.
That room is stunning and a great big fridge freezer will ruin the look. Just my opinion though!

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BrandNewHouse · 12/02/2018 05:55

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SorryNotSorry · 14/02/2018 20:13

@bobkate

I have been playing around with a room design website called roomstyler.com it's not as good as professional tools but is quite good. I have attached a design of our lounge we just did (keeping it romantic on St Valentine's Day)

We are looking at local showrooms in Hertfordshire btw including a family firm who build their own stuff PM if you want the names. I don't want them searching for themselves and seeing all their images!

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bobkate · 14/02/2018 20:45

Thank you sorry I have sent you a PM. I am now attempting to use room styler - finding it hard on my ipad mini! The screen isn't quite big enough or I need better glasses!

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4yearsnosleep · 14/02/2018 21:52

Nearly £4K on a fridge that's designed not to be seen is bonkers. Great if you have £50k to spend on a kitchen, but not in most people's reality.

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