Georgian? I think of the cooking hearth kind of look-stone/brick with a shelf built in at the back.the hood covered over with something not really elaborate-the cabinet company would have a cover in matching wood with a straightforward style. The cooking area is good to play up-hearths are really a strong wonderful feature but the actual hood and cover would not be necessarily be the central feature-I'd put the "wow" in the nooks and crannies down around the cooking surface-this would be a custom application-it'll be creative and interesting to get this going...you must have a beautiful place and excited to do this.

I can't find someone locally (dallas) who can fabricate an enameled range hood with stainless accents. Does anyone know a reliable source? thanks

Stainless steel easier to wipe down than wood. Also, it’s more of a pain to buy the separate components for a hood with cabinetry surround than a metal hood where it comes all-in-one. Also you need to make sure that the cabinetry surround is designed with proper proportions. A metal hood, you just shop for the one with the correct measurements. For a cabinet hood surround, you will have to carefully examine what the designer‘s hood surround plans are. It needs to be 6” wider than the cooktop. It must be deep enough front-to-back which is at least 24” deep; a common error of cabinet hood surrounds is that they are designed too shallow. Also sometimes a cabinetry surround plus a wall of more upper cabinets all around it can look like too much wall of cabinetry. Depends on the design.

If the "misaligned" hood still properly overlaps the rising and expanding cooking plumes, it doesn't functionally matter how the hood is oriented. If the hood is undersized, as so many are, the missed portion of the plume at one end is somewhat made up for by the less missed portion of the plume on the other end. For best results with a less than expansive hood entry aperture over a cooktop, it should be aligned with the burners/hobs, and not the physical cooktop. For ranges, which are often rather symmetrical, then best alignment would be evenly overlapping the range width dimension. Aesthetics would tend to want alignment with the range, but I'm not sure a quarter of an inch would be an aesthetic outrage. Other factors balancing the hood such as cabinetry, ceiling lights, etc. might make an offset hood appear aligned.