Anyone able to critique my DIY Kitchens plan?

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So I have been slaving over my DIY kitchens planner for what feels like months and think I have finally come up with a plan I am happy with. (Had various DIY chain plans drawn up and not been 100% happy with them).

Before I am brave and hit the order button is anyone able to cast their eye over it and see if I have missed a trick anywhere?

The only bit I wanted but am missing is eye level ovens, but am sacrificing them to get the extra worktop space.

Thanks all. 3 plans attached, one with base unit only, one with wall units and one for the utility. Hopefully going for the Linwood in Dove Grey.

Doesnt seem to let me add the utility plan, however its the kitchen I am most bothered about.

Looking good I think. We have an almost identical shaped room to you but possibly a bit longer. We’ve just had our DIY Helmsley kitchen installed before Christmas and I’m so happy with it (notwithstanding some customer service issues).
I wonder whether you have space to add a peninsular / breakfast bar coming into the room so dividing it between the table and rest of kitchen. This could either provide more storage / wine fridge / shelves or whatever you like or alternatively another causal seating area. We have done this and I absolutely love it! You could even if you wanted move the hob to this peninsular area which would free up the opposite wall for tall units including an oven at eye level. We moved our hob to the wall alongside where you have your sink and I’m really pleased we did. I’m not sure you have space to do that though so on the peninsular would be an alternative.
Is there room for a wine rack instead of a filler panel next to your utility door?

What’s the unit in the bottom left corner, left of the slim base unit pullout?

Ah think I can work it out, is it the bin?

That's a big table to have in the kitchen if you have a separate dining room. Without knowing what your utility room plan is, is there enough storage in the kitchen? Walking into the kitchen from the dining room, it's quite tight between the freezer and the table.

Have you thought where you will need to walk around the room in order to carry out various tasks? E.g. making a hot drink, getting ingredients together to make a meal.

Sorry minipie, yes the bins! Back door is the utility, so will be close to the bins and kettle/toaster will be above here for crumbs and teabags.
Glad to hear you are pleased with your kitchen Rosita, everything I have read says how impressed people are with the quality of DIY Kitchens. I am spending so much money, am just anxious not to get it wrong! We considered a penninsular but like the open space too much, and the kids like running round doing kitchen discos. It might be something we could add later as they get older. Not sure we have space to move the hob, though will look at it, and possibly room for a wine rack, it just makes it almost exact and doesn't allow for any wiggle room if walls are exactly straight!

Thanks wowfudge, table not to scale so more space than appears. Dining room being used as a playroom currently so no table in there. May eventually swap round and have table in dining room and small sofa in kitchen when our house is less full of plastic tat toys.
Have had a good think about how I work, am left handed so dish up to the left, hence wanting more worktop to the left of the hob for dishing up plates, rather than tall units here. Plates and cutlery will in the the drawers near the table so easy for.laying the table and also next to the dishwasher for unloading. Kettle and toaster above the pull out bins with cups in the wall cupboards above.
Managed to attach the utility plan now, not a lot of storage in here but enough to hide all the junk, paintbrushes, vacuum, washbaskets and ironing board. I am going for a towel radiator where I can dry clothes and will stick an airer in front of the back door with a dehumidifer on for temp drying. Wish I had more room for shelves/worktop for sorting clothes butndid want the utility sink for muddy boots, hand washing, dirty jobs...

What about having the washing machine alongside the sink in the utility? That usually makes sense because plumbing and waste pipes. Also counter space next to them is useful, plus anything hand washed which needs spinning can be easily bunged in the machine from the sink. Do you need a radiator in there?

Double check the sink you want with the sink drawer unit. I discovered (thankfully before I ordered) that once certain depths of sink worked with the drawer base unit we wanted and so ended up switching to standard doors on the unit instead.

Our DIY kitchen was installed before Xmas and we are thrilled with it. Our joiner has also put one in his own house and he thinks the quality it far superior for the price than others he has fitted.

I would suggest under counter freezer and eye level oven. Freezers are all drawers so undercounted might work unless you need more freezer space. But you wouldn't have worktop next to eye level oven.

A breakfast bar would be a great idea if you can get one in. You get some seating space and loads of storage underneath it. I did not have enough space so I could not have one :-(

They will help you to check you’ve ordered all the components you need if you email them your plan and ‘shopping list’.

Thanks all for your comments, they are really helpful. Mum2015 Am wobbling on the under ovens v the eye level ovens, maybe I need to think again.
Fudge - put the washer there so the dryer that sits on top can vent outside. Can't put anything where the radiator is because of the door opening. A bit of worktop would be good but am thinking I'll get a cover for the sink to use as additional worktop?

Top tip on the sink depth Threesocks, I'll email them to check as I did want a deeper sink. Good to know you are pleased with yours!
Ramona - notquite enough room :-(
Christmas lights - have emailed them, hooing they come back to me soon!

If you put the washer and dryer the other side of the back door and next to the sink, can you not vent the dryer outside there?

Looks good to me
I have diy kitchen.. Finished whole build reno project on Christmas eve... Aghhh...
Our plan was similar but we had a peninsular to separate kitchen from new family room
DIY were OK... Ish.... Quality is excellent, delivery etc good, but they were not that helpful on the phone afterwards. Despite every other review says they are amazing.
They just kept telling me to make an email ticket for queries.
I also had to send back various bits.. They sent extra stuff by accident and they would not organise the courier. Infact stuff still sat in my garage.
Pre delivery excellent service, post delivery.. Okish

They do check your order pre delivery.. They rang me as I'd inadvertently ordered kick boards in wrong colour. So rest assured they are good at that stuff

hi, i'm currently in an airport lounge and spotted your post. have had time to kill so have had a go at an alternative design for you! about to go on a long haul flight so won't be able to reply for a while. anyway good luck with the new kitchen.

Sunshine, so sorry have just seen this, thank you so much for spending your airport time looking at this, so kind of you. Nice design, like putting the pull out between the fridge and freezer, and moving the sink is an idea I'm not thought about, quite like it, though it would mean not having the sink under the window, I don't stand at the sink for long periods any way. Food for thought, thank you!

Can't read the notes on your plan so can't see what type of units you're ordering, but we had two issues with our DIYKitchen units. I ordered a really deep sink and so the sink unit draw didn't work with it. Our builders just fixed the draw front on so it doesn't open but it looks right.

We also had a 1000mm pan draw unit for under our induction hob which we ordered with the 'secret draw' option and I'd bought a wide cutlery holder for all the cooking utensils. That didn't work either because the induction hob had a unit attached on the underside that dropped down into the draw area, so the secret draw wouldn't close. We had to use it in another pan draw that was under a plain worktop area.

Sorry to revive this post. I would like to buy a kitchen from Diy kitchen but really struggling to use their online kitchen planner. Any help or advise would be welcome.

Just seen this, we had plans drawn up at the big DIY places and picked the best bits, then used the paper plans DIY provide to cut and stick a kitchen plan together. Kitchen fitter looked a bit sniffily at it but I'd measured it all about 100 times so it allnfit perfectly.
A poster called One Plan on here/on Houzz also does kitchen plans for DIY kitchens and is reasonably priced.