Love this house but wondering how practical the kitchen will be

[newyorkparis]

We really love this house but when we visited I felt that the gap between the worktop and wall cupboards didn’t seem a lot. I appears that they have a small microwave in the gap in the utility room (I think it’s about 17cm high) which would be a pain as I always find compact microwaves too small. Also, where do you fit a kettle and toaster? There’s a small amount of worktop next to the sink without a wall cupboard but a microwave would be a nuisance there.
Ugh! We are downsizing so the kitchen isn’t too small overall, just the ridiculously small working gap between the cupboards and countertop.

Any thoughts before we have to relegate this one to the ‘only maybe’ pile. I love the house but keep finding these little things to be unsure about. It would annoy me to move in and find the worktops are pretty much unusable for appliances

Do you never have visitors?

Looks fine to me, it's a good chance to free yourselves of all those pointless gadgets.

Take out one side of the wall cupboards from the hob where the kettle is and put shelves there or do this on the other side, probably no need to take both sides out

Thanks all, the gap between the bottom of the cupboard in the kitchen is 37cm in the kitchen and only 26cm in the utility room. So small. The house isn’t for us unfortunately, a second viewing to measure didn’t thrill us.

This is basically my kitchen and that's how the previous owners had it set up, with toaster to left of oven. We took the microwave down and into utility because it was ugly but I'm sure there are ways to make it look better or even basically built in

Shocked that so many people think it's fine - it looks absolutely bizarre and totally impractical. I'm guessing that the ceiling is really low and they've also bought tall wall units so have had to fit them weirdly low. They need replacing with more appropriately sized units or shelves, but I see you've decided against the house anyway!