I've always had my fridge inside and my freezer outside (on the back porch or in the garage -- mild climate). This has never bothered me, but I don't put ice in anything, and nothing else from the freezer needs to be on hand. If I am going to defrost something, it's either (1) a whole meal, in which case, if I'm saving all that cooking time and I can afford to take a few extra steps to the deep freeze, or (2) something like raw meat that is going to need to thaw all day anyway, so I'm in no rush. So I don't find myself getting in and out of the freezer a bunch. On the other hand, my 36" subzero is a godsend and I get into it a hundred times per meal--I'm one of those people who isn't smart enough to realize I should get everything out of the fridge at once, so I'm constantly going back for the next ingredient. In other words, do what works for you. Consider too, that you could put a full freezer in the pantry and put a smaller, under counter freezer in the kitchen for things you find yourself needing on hand (ice, maybe frozen herbs?, pre-made broth?). Totally depends on how you cook. Walk yourself through a few favorite meals and lunch prep routines and see if you think it would annoy you.

Sharing my experience: I purchased a model KRG365-NG from an authorized seller with a good reputation. (A 36 Inch Freestanding Professional Gas Range with 4 Dual-Flow Burner System, 5.8 Cu. Ft. Capacity) Installation date: April 2022. My household's experience with Hestan has left us with a bad taste for the company. (And we are really good cooks ;-) ) Their appliances look beautiful externally; internally... well that's a whole other story: The oven door has been causing issues since nearly the first time it was used. Some of the knobs at the top become extremely hot to the touch (enough that one requires oven mitts to adjust certain knobs while in operation if one isn't excited about a trip to the local ER). Unfortunately, Hestan's service repair technician has attempted to adjust the door but it seems to get misaligned and needs adjustment shortly after or he hasn't actually fixed the problem. Scheduling repeated service repair visits that take several weeks to implement, (no fault to the repair dudes) I assume is a deliberate business decision intended to string along disgruntled consumers until they get exhausted from keeping up with the saga, or they get deported, immigrate to Finland, convert to outdoor brick oven cooking, lose their memory, or other stuff happens making this recede into the background; dragging on the case by scheduling repeated visits for the same issue, interchanged with executing a non-response policy till the pesky issue of a valid warranty expires, is intentional. And brings to Case Closed. BTW: The repair technician is nice, polite, responsive, respectful, and sympathetic -- we're on a first-name level of familiarity at this point, on the verge of sharing a beer every first Tuesday of the month!) Re: warranty service issue, Hestan hasn't been responsive with timely communications (weeks of being ignored or pat emails saying "your request has been transferred to the right dept blah blah" and then crickets...) or been honest regarding honoring their warranty coverage for malfunctioning systems. I have had multiple service requests to fix the oven after it stopped working, always sometime after the oven is used on high heat for several hours. I know. It's an oven, Watson. Foolish of me to expect it to operate on high heat. (Two times it was the internal sensor for the electric stuff - placed in the space between the oven and the high BTU gas range (???!) so when both functions are operating at full capacity, as when preparing a multi-dish formal dinner for many folks, the electric components get hot really fast and shut off to self-preserve - (I respect that instinct) triggering the oven-control shut off. This time the oven electric controls seem to be working but no heat occurs when turning the knobs on. The issue of an internal sensor getting overheated, triggering a safety mechanism, that shuts off the oven function has happened often enough that it reflects a serious design flaw, or a lemon.) To put it starkly: That's a non-working oven, folks, for a household that cooks a whole bunch for extended family and friends and does plenty of hosting on weekends. Significant levels of creativity and a whole lotta flexibility/patience are required to substitute on-range cooking for oven roasting. To be fair: No working oven does increase kitchen storage space when one takes out the racks -- on the bright side of things! Hestan didn't bother responding to a detailed letter sent to their warranty dept. delineating the issues in October of 2023. Nor did they respond to a follow-up letter 2 weeks later. This is the third time the oven has had the same issue amongst others. (Another interesting factoid: In Northern California's Bay Area, home to a population of over 7.5 million eating humans there is a dearth of authorized service technicians vetted by the company. It takes time for them to be available for repairs; anywhere between three to five weeks. Then when a part needs to be ordered -- an often occurence -- add another several weeks to your broken-cooking-appliance-saga aka. buddhist-exercise-in-patience.) Bears repeating: Our model had issues with the oven (whether heating up properly or heating up at all) since a few short weeks after it was first installed by a licensed electrician. As well, the oven door has issues closing fully so as to be flush against the oven cavity interior - to prevent escaping air, uneven baking temperatures, and hot, Hot, HOT, range/ oven control knobs. The gas range, contrastingly, has always worked well, except for one burner whose simmer function has stopped working. Informing others of the company reputation: I am filing a complaint with the BBB. Check it out! Found under Hestan Commerical Corporation, based in Anaheim, CA. (I wish I had read their reviews, and had read this site's threads before choosing the company. It does place the company in an unflattering light). I wonder if the company will magically become more attentive. Also looking at arbitration alternatives (warranty states either JAMS or the American Arbitration Association.) If anyone has gone the arbitration route, please share your experience. CONCLUSION: We would not recommend their appliances to others - based on their awesome lack of responsiveness to malfunctioning parts, coupled with their lack of honoring warranty assurances (by replacing or exchanging the model) in situations where several service repair visits have occurred -- with no lasting fix. I wish I had known that the ability to endure and practice stoicism is a requirement when purchasing from HESTAN. (Apparently, some products have quality issues -- that's to be expected. What isn't expected is not honoring their part of the warranty agreement. It's a lack of integrity and commitment, and feels like betrayal.) ________ I am posting on this most useful thread for other consumers to let them (you, the reader) know that if one is dealt a bad hand with an appliance from Hestan, set really low expectations for warranty fulfillment. Or with timely service visits. (Easily over several weeks, up to 7 by me, until the issue is properly addressed: the repair tech comes, he/ she figures out what part needs ordering, the part gets ordered, the part gets shipped, the part gets delivered and another visit is scheduled, and the repair tech is available to swing by again, the part is installed, and that miraculously fixes the problem, leaving one with a working appliance -- at least until the Gods decide to amuse themselves again.) If you want to play "roll the dice" with individual appliances worth between $7,500 - $12,000 plus installation costs, plus purchase of a (useless?) extended warranty, go ahead: Sprint, don't shuffle, to your nearest HESTAN authorized seller.

So you keep asking what other people like, but that is really irrelevant to what will work best for YOU. The correct size of drawers or cabinets depends on what YOU will put there - which might not be what I would put there. Kind of like saying "should I get a sports car or a minivan?", without telling us whether or not you're hauling kids and their cellos to music lessons. You need to go through a whole day in your kitchen - 3 meals, with some baking thrown in - to decide what needs to go where. Items should go near their point of use: prep area has knives, cutting boards, colanders, trash; cooking area has pots and pans, utensils, spices, potholders; baking area has dry goods, bowls, measuring cups; cleanup area has dishwasher, dishes, flatware. Somewhere you need food storage containers, bags and wraps, towels, small appliances, large stock pot, cookie sheets, baking dishes. Once you've determined WHERE things will go, then you evaluate your own stuff, to decide how much space you need. Use tape to measure out the interior of a 24 or 30" cabinet or drawer, and put your things in that space. Don't forget to determine how deep a drawer needs to be - I have cake pans and pie tins on their sides in a drawer, so that drawer needs to be pretty deep. The utensil pullout that decoenthusiaste posted would drive me nuts! I have my utensils in a drawer, with dividers. I can't stand rooting around in a jumble for what I need. What works best for deco would definitely not work for me. Now, going back to your question! After you've measured all your stuff and decided where it will go, you may have a pretty good idea about what size works best. Do you need 12" more pantry space, or counter space? Also think about getting something out of the uppers on each side of the stove. If one of those cabinets has spices or oils, a double door means you have to go around the door to get what you need; a single door is much more convenient.

I would not do it. It will leave you only 6.5" of counter footage in front of the appliance garage -- not deep enough for staging those appliances when removing them as well as not enough space below the upper cab to stage items being taken out or put in. 25.5"D counters - 18"D cabinet - 1" door = 6.5" left In addition, it looks to be close to the gas range, significantly reducing your emergency landing space on that side. I also think that , as others have said, it will look like a mistake (oops! I didn't measure right but I crammed it in anyway). Finally, unless you are a tall family, it will make accessing items in the upper cabinet more difficult b/c you will be reaching over a taller item to reach inside (you won't have much "lean into" space when trying to reach into the upper cabinet). I like Mrs. S's idea to try it out...but make sure it's the full size and close to the right color. Don't forget that Kitchen cabinets take up the depth of the cabinet + 1" for the door, so it should be 19" deep, not 18". (I assume you mean a door similar to Jan's first picture.)