Under counter kitchen

[mobear]

Does anyone have an all under counter kitchen (except, perhaps, the fridge)? If so, do you like it? I love how they look but am wondering how practical they are in reality.

We had that in a previous house, mainly because there were so many windows in the kitchen. Worked really well but it was a big kitchen and we had many low level cupboards, drawers etc.

Yep me. I really like it although I do have a walk in pantry and one wall does have tall cupboards.

We have 2 4m long open shelves (scaffold planks) above our worktop. All mugs, plates, bowls, glasses, baking tins, stoneware etc. It's all stuff we use regularly so it's close at hand and we don't worry about dust etc.

Actually laughing at PP who confidently declares "wall units are old fashioned". Mumsnet is brilliant sometimes.

Wall units are really old fashioned. Nowadays you have a mix of tall units and waist height units with nothing above. Unless your kitchen is really tiny and you can’t avoid having wall units because you need the space.

"Nowadays you have...." is such a silly thing to say. It might be what you choose, but there are many of us who would go with sense and practicality over fashion when planning a kitchen.
Very funny that people think everyone slavishly follows fashion for the way they furnish their living space.

We have a kitchen diner, two runs of units in an L shape. One run has 1 full height larder unit and 1 wall cupboard, other run has a 3/4 height fridge at the end. No other wall cupboards. I love it, we have loads of cupboard space anyway so don't miss that and makes the workspace so much nicer to work at. At a rental cottage recently and hated having the wall units above when preparing food. We have a window above one row of units and then the other has an extractor and knife rack/utensil rack on wall

Our kitchen in our previous house was like this but 2 of the walls had windows and another had an american fridge freezer, oven bank and walk in larder. It worked well as larder held all the dry goods and we had pan drawers in an island plus a freestanding cupboard for crockery.

As with others, we used to have one wall of mostly full height cabinets (hard to explain, but at either end was a wall cabinet and a gap - one end had kettle there, other end had microwave, kitchen then wrapped round into a utility cupboard) and then a long run of base cabinets only. I really miss it, I find the wall cabinets in our current kitchen very oppressive. I will aim for the same layout of full height + base only in the house we're buying.