Kitchen - am I missing anything?

[Quirkyturkey]

We''ve been having an extension built and I'm going to have to order the kitchen this week - I want to get it right!

We're having a large kitchen diner roughly 9x4m and the kitchen will be L-shaped with an island and taking up approx 5x4m. I don't want any wall cupboards or tall cabinets apart from a big walk-in corner larder unit. I'm intending to have 4 x 900mm pan drawer sets (one shallow and two deep drawers), cupboard for the bins, couple of other base cabinets, American FF, wine fridge, etc.

My only concern is that I'm planning on keeping all crockery, mugs, everyday glasses in drawers. Does anyone do this and does it work okay, or will it drive me mad? I'm sure I'll have plenty of storage space overall as we'll also have a reasonable sized Welsh dresser at the dining end plus a separate utility (though this isn't directly off the kitchen).

As I said, I just want to get it right. I've been dreaming of a big kitchen for years and planning this one for nearly a year . DH has left it entirely up to me ...... I don't want to fuck it up!

We had our kitchen fitted last year and our everyday crockery - including all the mugs - is in a drawer. The cutlery is in the shallow drawer above. The kettle is on the work surface above, the fridge nearby and I can empty the dishwasher and put the stuff away without moving from the spot.

We had ours done in October last year. We have all of our crockery in 800 wide pan drawers, cutlery in the slim drawer above. Glasses are in a wall cupboard over that. Everything that is used often can be put away without moving more than a step from the dishwasher. I love having plates and stuff in a drawer it's much easier to pull them out than from the cupboard above.

If we were to do it again, I’d look at deeper drawers because I have a plate rack you put the plates in vertically in one which has my fancy stuff in and the dinner plates don’t fit. It is a lot easier not to take plates from a stack.

Pan drawers are great, we had half of them bottom cupboards and half of them drawers put in just in case we didn't like the drawers, but if i was doing it again I'd go for drawers throughout and only one cupboard if any (for things like slow cooker, rice cooker, blender)

All our regularly used crockery and cutlery are in drawers (just 600mm ones) next to the dishwasher so hardly need to move to unload it.

Teabags in a pull-out cupboard that looks like a standard base cupboard with internal drawers. One drawer acts as a bread bin as well. Kettle on worktop above. Could keep mugs in there as well, I suppose.

I had a new kitchen six months ago and I have 18 drawers!

Each set has two deep and one shallow draw in them
I have 5 at 900 and one at 450mm wide

I adore the 900 ones. I have ones for pans, one for lids and cooking utensils and lids, one for crockery, one for wrapping paper and lots more. You can put anything on them. I adore them.

Sorry to jump on the thread, but do people find weight's a limiting factor with crockery in drawers? At the moment I have one 60cm base cupboard for crockery. On one shelf I have a pile of 12 dinner plates, 2 x piles of side/breakfast plates totalling about 24, and a pile of about 8 bowls. It seems a LOT of weight for one drawer.

Thanks all, just what I wanted to hear! I'd have even more drawers if I could, but it would mean losing the double sink or having a smaller wine fridge. I'm not prepared to give up the former, nor DH the latter!

Re the weight they can bear, from past reading I think it's more than you'd expect (seem to remember a post somewhere where the poster kept all her Le Creuset pans and casseroles in drawers) but I'm not planning to overload them anyway. I'll have enough space that I won't have to stuff them full - I will resist!