I Don't want to block the view! Ideas for non-overhead range hood
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Comments (12)The particular hood shown above appears to have traded minimum view blockage for reduced capture and containment capability -- the two functions that a hood is intended to perform above all others. I suggest determining where adequately capable hoods can be installed in the kitchen that don't excessively block desired views and which allow proper ducting to the outside. Then evaluate placing the range under those candidate hood locations with the rest of the kitchen layout adapted to that configuration. Perhaps one of the resulting layouts will meet most requirements. Island and peninsula locations for cooktops require relatively obtrusive, larger hoods with commensurate higher air flow rates due to having all four sides of the rising effluent path open. kas...See MoreWhy don't they make more adaptable downdraft hoods?
Comments (14)Jamesk - I don't understand your hostility. It's as though you're saying that I'm stupid or foolish for not being able to make an overhead hood work in my kitchen. That's not really in keeping with the tone of this forum, which is generally empathetic and supportive. We may challenge one another intellectually, but not personally. Do you find something wrong with not wanting to have my back to my guests as I cook? Or with wanting to have a design that is ergonomically efficient and comfortable for me? And since the engineering modifications that would go into a reversible downdraft are trivial (i.e. making a faceplate and attachment to the activator that can be flipped) is there some reason why my making the suggestion disturbs you? Your second post also suggests that you didn't understand my previous descriptions, To make it as clear as possible for you, I only had one piece of wall, 8.5 feet long, onto which an overhead hood could have been vented. Had I done so and put a cooking surface under it, I don't think that I could have squeezed any sized fridge in there too, because there are windows on either side of that space, and our city requires a distance from a cooking surface to a window, even if there is a hood over the cooking surface. That means that the fridge would have either had to go less than a foot from the main sink, with no other landing space around it, or into the area where the pantry is now, cutting out 2/3 of the storage space there, again with no landing zone unless I cut into the pantry space further for a counter. Putting a cooktop in that location would have also made the distance from sink to cooktop around 9 feet, and from sink to fridge more like 18 feet unless the fridge were jammed directly next to the main sink. That's way too long for an efficient work triangle, and would have made it very difficult for 2 of us to share the space. Had I tried to put a prep sink in to the left of the cooktop, I'd have had to plumb an additional 20 feet of water lines and sewer spur, to gain a prep sink and about 18" of prepping space. Putting a prep sink in to the right would have pointless, and into the island would have been another 17 feet of plumbing, plus the opportunity to drip on the floor as I moved things from the prep sink to the cooktop. Those are the layout problems that I abbreviated as a "useless mess." Instead, I have a comfortable, roomy, elegant design that works beautifully for 2 cooks and gives me everything that I wanted other than that damn downdraft hood. If you are so attached to an overhead vent hood that you would give up all the rest of those advantages in order to have it, then by all means you should have it. I might not understand your decision, but I wouldn't fire sarcastic criticism at you for having made it....See MoreVent hoods that don't have to be vented outside? do they exist?
Comments (20)Your situation regarding a vent hood mirrors exactly what we had to deal with. Load bearing wall, finished upstairs bathroom, all the plumbing for the bathroom was exactly where we thought we could run the duct work for the vent hood and 8' ceilings. What we did was run 3X10 duct work above the 36" cabinets, vented horizontally to the outside and then covered up the duct work with moldings. We did have to drop the vent hood from 30" above the stove to 27". I was worried about having the vent hood 27" above the stove, but we were in the parameters of what the installation instructions required. The only thing I would have changed was to have a 9" vent hood instead of an 18" vent hood, then I could have had the vent hood 30" above the range, but you know what, it works like a champ. My vent hood is extremely quiet on low and medium low, but does get louder on med high and high. Whatever you choose to do, good luck. I always tell my DH, if they can put a man on the moon, then something is always doable, with some thought, and a woman!!!! Here is a picture of our install. Here is a picture of the finished product....See MoreIdeas for reasonably priced railing that won't block view?
Comments (27)We stepped our main deck level down one step (a small landing outside the door and then a step down to rest of deck) and then used a combination of black wrought iron vertical railing joined with wood decorative posts. I don't know the style of your home, and the overall "color" of your view (ie, if it's light, you may want white railing), but this worked very nicely for us. The white painted corner posts tied in with the traditional style of our home, and the iron blended with the trees/forest so that it is practically invisible from inside, yet the overall look makes the outside area a focal point rather than a railing distraction. Just an idea. I'm not sure if it was all that affordable. My husband did the woodwork, and brought in the iron guy to measure and fill in the railing lengths. Reeha...See More829maxx
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