Another design question for my house.. sorry

[YellowEllis]

I know I've posted so much but having to make every design choice for our house over a few weeks is so hard and Dh and I can't agree on anything. We've already implemented three changes off wise mumsnetters advice so I'm putting this out there aswell.

We have a double American fridge freezer, it's a hefty thing. 178.7 x 91 x 74.3 cm. I love it. We do find it's very big and even with a full food shop we never quite fill it but it's great to have so much space.

The issue is the only place in our kitchen we can put it due to its size is on the wall opposite the breakfast bar. We may need to shorten the breakfast bar to allow a decent amount of walking space which then renders the breakfast bar useless. I'm also worried a big fridge freezer sticking will ruin the nice open plan kitchen/diner lay out that we liked. Only other choice is to stick with the integrated fridge freezer that comes with it? But then I'm worried about lack of space.

The kitchen is quite narrow, but fairly long and although the layout is the same as in the photo we've got nice bright cupboards, floors and work tops which are a total different look. So it hopefully won't feel as narrow as it looks in the designs, but will the American fridge freezer look too big for the room? Do we take the risk of shortening the breakfast bar to fit it in to then not like it and switch to integrated but then have a useless breakfast bar?

Help

And before anyone tells me to not buy a new build or comments on how tiny it is, we're buying the best house we can afford. We love it. We just want to know how to best utilise the space.

Could you ditch breakfast bar and carry on straight across and build it into the existing units so it flows? You could then have a pull out larder on the end too? Suggesting this as it's what I have done in my tiny kitchen and it works

Or maybe add an under counter fridge in the utility for extra capacity? Our American fridge freezer was great for fridge space but the freezer area wasn’t actually that big. Moving to a house with an integrated fridge freezer it was the fridge space I missed (especially with teenage boys).

If the utility is small you could look at stacking the washing machine and dryer to free up a base unit space?

Maybe take off breakfast bar and have an island?

I think to start with we'll go with the integrated, if it ends up not being big enough we can put a countertop one in utility or perhaps in the outside shed. I'm mainly going to miss my ice cube maker

Have you thought of making the integrated fridge freezer just a fridge and putting the freezer in the utility? We have a full tower size integrated fridge and it works well.