Kitchen design help

[tryingtocatchthewind]

Please help, I'm going round the bend with my new kitchen. I can't decide on anything. I don't know if I want shaker, handleless, colour, smeg or integrated FF??? I've looked at Pinterest/Insta so much in the last few weeks I'm going round in circles.

The main problem is it's long and narrow so causing worktop problems. I really don't want a join mid way so that means if I want quartz it'll have to be 3m max and if I go for laminate it'll have to be 4m.

What do you think of these plans? Does the fridge opposite the tall units look odd? It's the only way I can think of to have quartz.

Benchmarx came up with the plan with the FF next to the tall units and Howdens did the lower units.

Any ideas I haven't thought of.

Sorry, all the years I've been on here I have never uploaded photos before. I hope it makes sense!

One was done by Howdens, the other was Benchmarx and the third was me.
I have put them all into the DIY kitchen planner to price compare and it’s easier to play around.

Really dislike the right hand side
A fuller run in the left side and move the table will give more light and space

Or tall cupboards to the left and a run on the right

I would zone the kitchen

Over knives forked plates utensils spices etc for cooking

Tea coffee cups kettle in another

Sink washing dishwasher etc in another

Then cupboards for food and things you don’t use that often

Then go from there

Here is the proper mock up Benchmarx did

@BluebellsGreenbells

Really dislike the right hand side A fuller run in the left side and move the table will give more light and space

Or tall cupboards to the left and a run on the right

I would zone the kitchen

Over knives forked plates utensils spices etc for cooking

Tea coffee cups kettle in another

Sink washing dishwasher etc in another

Then cupboards for food and things you don’t use that often

Then go from there

Where would you put the table?

I wouldn’t want to walk with hot food from the cooker to the worktop

There could be kids or other people in the way - usually my husband!

I would want the oven and hob together to dish up and have room for plates on the worktops

I see what you mean, I didn’t think just spinning round on the spot with oven pots would be that bad.

I like the Benchmarx design but I would make the FF integrated so it blends in with bank of tall units

This is the current monstrosity! The brick is purely decorative.

We are using a solid surface worktop (Mistral) which looks like quartz but allows a longer seamless run

@Justyouwaitandseeagain

We are using a solid surface worktop (Mistral) which looks like quartz but allows a longer seamless run

Thanks, there’s a worktop shop near me that does all different brands of corian. I’ll call in and see what they have.

Could you go low level only on the right side? It would seem more spacious. Or lose that side all together and have a small peninsular as you do now.

I agree with @Justyouwaitandseeagain. Benchmark layout good but that sent looks odd - go integrated f/f for a much sleeker look. You need as much work surface either side of the hob.

Sorry but I don’t think either of your layouts are ideal. You seem to have a long thin room and putting wall and base units down both sides turns it into a corridor.

It’s much more important to get this sorted rather than worrying about worktops joins, which are barely noticeable if done well.

If you could give information about the whole room, people could advise on other possible layouts . What are the two doors on the right hand wall ? Why do you have everything crammed down one end of the room?

Do you know that it’s not expensive to more radiators? Especially for someone with a corian worktop budget.

Why don’t you move the table to the right hand wall B and group all your tall units together on wall c? An integrated FF, ovens and microwave, tall larder cupboard for food.

Then the long wall D can have a lovely long run of worktop and hob with the dishwasher, sink and washing machine ( also integrated ) next to each other on wall A.

I’d lose the wall units on wall A and most of wall D.

If you only have one door on the RH wall then you have even more options.

I think that you have an 800 cooker so I’m assuming that’s a range and not a hob. So why do you need a separate oven in the tall unit ? Or is that a build in microwave ? Either way you need worktop beside it.

@Sprat123

If you are having a freestanding washing machine, it will be proud of the rest of the units, bring the rest of the units on that run forward so the worktops can run over everything. if you bring it forward enough you could even hide it behind a door so the plinth will run all the way to the wall. Corian can be made deeper and can also be made run seamlessly under the window and onto the sill. premiumworktops.co.uk.

Some b~rk resolved the washing machine problem in our house by removing a large section of the internal leaf of an exterior cavity wall.

Do Not Do This

Wen we stripped the kitchen out, I had to learn bricklaying to brick it up. Luckily the house was so well built the rest of the wall above, hanging unsupported as the gap went from a wall corner to a window, hadn't moved at all in what must have been about 40 years since it was done (found a newspaper behind the plywood they had fitted instead of, you know, actual bricks).

I quite like the peninsula you currently have (although obviously not in its current state!)
It is tricky because you have a lot to fit in. You don't have a garage or other area you could put the washer I assume?
What are your must haves? You could consider integrated under counter fridge and freezer. This is what we have done because it opened up the space and gave us decent worktop. It works well but I was fussy with the fridge. I have another and the design is useless in comparison for capacity.
I'd keep tall units to one side only.
For the type of cupboards, is it a light or dark room? I went with white acrylic faced to bounce light In a small space but if I'd been choosing just for me I'd have had blue shaker!