How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I don't think drawers are a big improvement over the classic shelf personally. You have to remove bloody everything to get to the item at the bottom and you can only see the top layer of stuff if it's stacked up pretty well. Things fall out of the side/back of them and jam in it. Crouching in front of a shelf is easier than bending at the waist to pick something up. The whole thing is fucked if you fall over and land on it or a child jumps on it or whatever where as a cabinet door is fairly easy to replace.

That's my big kitchen drawer complaints, you're welcome.

Not for me - big fan of drawers over cupboards

We got a Full height pantry cupboard with drawers, it's heaven.

one cabinet does 95% of our non refridgerated consumables

Pics?

On the high ovens you could always have the ovens/microwaves in the cupboard between the doors. Or is that the fridge?

I'm not as sold on an island as others. They're great for big kitchens, but I feel lots of people shoe horn them in for fashion over function.

How I'm reading this room is that you're having a kitchen down one side and a dining room in the rest with the slimline cabinets for life storage.

On the drawer cupboards I think a combo is good. For herbs a shallow draw is life changing. I stayed somewhere that had one and it was amazing.

What about going into a Howdens and getting a design?

Totally unnecessary, but all this drawer chat is triggering the pedant in me (not hard). It’s drawer not draw.

I was strongly resisting as well 😂
trying not to get drawn in.

We've got one of these too - two big drawers at the bottom & shelving above, only problem is I'm constantly having to get things down for my partner!

I'm a no vote on islands though, you just end up with narrow corridors & everyone having to squeeze past each other, much prefer an open kitchen.

So big cupboards one would be a fridge freezer the other a large pantry cupboard.

Island I’m not convinced, the table can be moved and could be height of an island…
The dinning table will probably become the homework etc dumping ground.

The kitchen would be 22.5m2 so not huge. The returned sink looks over the garden. Also gives more worktop space.

The garden is small and quite overlooked so not sure I’d want it all open

How deep does this have to be to be useful? Kitchen design we've had made up includes one but it's only shallow - I can't work out if it's worth having in that case...

I don’t think it needs to be deep if full height. Non perishable heaven!

We have one that's only about 300mm internal depth and it's super useful

If you haven’t got a top-down spice draw you ain’t lived

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Feel like this is missing some custom folded steel drawer organisation

Also that table salt! :'P

I'm also anti-island unless you have a giant kitchen.

My parents have an eye level oven and I've got a low oven and I've never really noticed a difference in using them. I wouldn't be rejigging my whole kitchen to accommodate one.

I've got a combination of drawers and cupboards in the kitchen. Drawers are good for some stuff and I'd definitely get some but cupboards are useful too.

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+1.

Also side can drawerer. Pals not mine but good.

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If you do not have an island, where do you do all the prepping and cooking? As for me, doing it in that kitchen design at 184cm would mean my forehead pressed against a cupboard.

I hate cupboards about work surface.

If get rid, and make some double heigh cupboards behind the table on the other side if there wasn't to be a work island.

Reg island, obvs kitchens are made for dancing and an island may prevent that.

"Drink Prosecco and dance on the 40k kitchen island."

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where do you do all the prepping and cooking?

Somewhere on the counter top. Probably on the right of the hob. Which brings up the question of whether the left side should be bigger, if you're taking washed veg from the sink and then having to walk them up to the right side of the hob to prep.

These days that's about £40k in Heinz right there

Seems inefficient. I vote for a U shape counter and bench seat.

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