Under-cabinet range hood and 15" uppers?
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Comments (28)We will be getting a stand-alone range hood when we redo our small kitchen and buy the Bertazzoni gas range. I've grown totally displeased with any kind of food storage above a cooktop/oven because of the moth/meal worm problems when you try to store things there. And with our kitchen having only short amounts of walls, I would be much better off with having open shelves along the walls adjacent to the stove anyway. Across the room where the sink is, we'll add a garden window there, and a nice olf fashioned plate rack over the dishwasher. Even though we are taking in our 7x14' backporch as part of the kitchen, the upper portion there will remain as window panels. This will be a mostly bottom base cabinet kitchen, and mostly have drawers. To gain more space, we are building a window seat under the pair of dining room windows, and opening the wall between the two rooms to make at least a 4' wide passageway. At either end of the windowseat (also used for additional dining seating), I will place the 24x88"" rollout pantry and the 24x88"" tall cabinet w/5 drawers etc from IKEA. The pricing on those two units together are less than the metal insert alone, from another pantry rollout manufacturer. This will give us more than enough storage to compensate for lack of wall cabs. I plan to put most of my dishes in the drawers with the proper hardware inserts that IKEA makes for storing everything. I'm looking forward to buying these two items soon even before we begin work on the kitchen remodel. There are a few individual pieces of furniture in use on a HAVE TO DO SOMETHING basis, and they will be cleared away. That has to be a good thing. If you want to see the two tall cabs I mention, look at the IKEA 2010 Kitchen catalog on p. 78 and 79....See MoreUnder-cabinet range hood and 15" uppers?
Comments (10)My daughter recently changed out her OTR microwave for a under cabinet hood. She had a similar dilemma but the cabinet over cooktop was 17" deep. She only had 32 inches from cook top to bottom of the cabinet so she needed a low profile vent hood with a height of about 6" or the hood would be too low and in her face. She did not want to remove the cabinet because she needs every inch of storage she has in her small kitchen. Pulling a hood out that was 12" deep at the top but 20 or more inches at the bottom would have brought the hood out almost to the edge of her counter. She opted to just mount the hood all the way back and let the cabinet overhang the hood. She had looked at a couple different Zephyr models because they are deeper at the top but decided if her cabinet was going to overhang the hood it didn't matter if it was 2" or 5", she'd just have to get used to it. I thought it was going to look terrible but it isn't all that bad. Before: After: Hope you can get yours figured out to your satisfaction....See More15" deep cabinets. 12" under cabinet hood - please help me fix this
Comments (11)Thanks Joseph. I was able to find a stainless piece to cover up the gap. My only concern now is whether I need to attach a piece of wood to the back, so I can mount the hood to the wall. Is mounting it to the bottom of the cabinet enough? My husband seems to think it is fine. But I don’t want it to fall down. We initially want to mount it to both the wall and cabinet, so it has extra support....See MoreWider range hood or upper cabinets?
Comments (15)There’s only 2 of us so we don’t need a larger range... For what entertaining we do 30” is plenty. With infinite funds maybe we’d do otherwise but this is a build in the Bay Area of Calif so even a reasonable budget doesn’t go far (to put it mildly :->). Guess I should have qualified my statement about having enough storage elsewhere.... I do want some storage by the range for things I need and use for cooking. Not a fan of open shelving, especially by the range and for the type of things I’d want to keep there. Good to know that 15” are not a complete waste... It didn’t seem like they should be but just wanted to hear from other experiences....See MoreAndy ...
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