Bad idea ... the range and sink shouldn't interfere with each other's use. Find a different configuration, or post a dimensioned diagram of the space, so we can help you figure a new plan.

Bad idea. From a safety standpoint you want to be able to move in any direction away from the range. Functionally you also want to be able to stand a bit to either side and have some open countertop on each side. Plus what was said above.

It might or might not be a terrible idea depending on your being able to move the stove a few inches to its left.

FWIW, this question comes up here with some frequency. Often, the responses range from those who (a) feel the layout with an open stove side next to a doorway is utterly unacceptably dangerous to (b) those who say you work with the space and budget you have, so having stove next to a doorway can be workable, and (c) everything in-between.

For some recent examples, you might look at these three threads while waiting for further responses here:

* "ok to install cooktop with no cabinets to one-side,"

* "range-next-to-back-doorway," and

* "need ideas to cover exposed side of bosch slide in-range no oem part."

IOW, its one thing If you have the time and budget for a blank slate renovation and quite another if the reno will be limited to making the best of an existing space.

That said, I'm inclined to with agree Blueberry_Bundtcake and opaone about the oven and sink obstructing each other in the layout shown; as you noted, you can't open the oven door while using the sink and can't get to the sink when the oven is opened. But it is worse than that.

For one thing, any pulls or knobs on the sink cabinet doors will block the oven door from opening fully.

For another, there is practical concern with the heat escaping the side of the oven door where it closes against the chassis. Generally, ranges sit with front of the stove and oven door a bit proud of the cabinets. That keeps the heat from crack along side edge of the door from damaging the cabinets to the side. (The heat is not just when the door is opened.) Even worse if your stov's broiler is one that operates with the oven door cracked open. Your rendering appears to show the "crack" of the oven door right up against the adjoining cabinets which would, indeed, be a bad idea.

The way to avoid the problem might be to skooch the stove to its left --- probably requiring cutting away some of the trim of the adjoining doorway and putting a corresponding spacer between the stove and the sink base cabinet. The result might not be pretty but should be sufficient to protect the base cabinets to the right.

Could you instead, maybe, swap the stove and fridge locations? It would not be ideal but I think it could make your kitchen easier to work in. But, maybe there is another doorway just beyond the fridge? (The kitchen in my 120 year-old house was built like that; there are four doorways into it.). At least, having the stove on what appears to be an exterior wall could allow you to easily vent to the outside whether you have an actual hood or need to go with an OTR microwave.

A "dimensioned diagram" could indeed be helpful to getting better responses. Also, some indication of the budget for your project as well as noting where the existing power and/or gas lines for the stove are located. Seems to me that it will be one thing if you are having to work with the existing service locations and quite another if the budget is big enough for relocating them.

I have no problem with a side of the range not having a counter/cabinet buffer. It can work just fine and is only a safety issue if you make it one ... don't leave a handle sticking into the doorway, and no one can run into it rushing through the door. I wouldn't want a stove with no counter on either side, but that's about functionality and somewhere to set utensils or staged ingredient not about safety concerns.

I do have a problem with main components of a room interfering with one another. Maybe if one never has anyone else in their kitchen it doesn't matter, but I don't want to have to ask someone washing their hands at the sink to move so I can get the food out of the oven or rescue the pot on the stove before it boils over; likewise, if I'm stirring the risotto, I shouldn't have to move or stand in that doorway so someone can rinse some veggies. You wouldn't set up a dresser in your bedroom that required you to move your desk chair in order to open it ... you wouldn't design a bathroom where you had to stand in the tub to close the door ... you could, but it would be a nuisance to deal with. The more practical the kitchen is to use, the more enjoyable the cooking will be, and I happen to enjoy cooking with someone else, so I'd want a space where that was possible without hipchecking each other out of the way.

Thanks for your responses, everyone. I was concerned mostly with heat damage to cabinets, then some of you pointed out that it's impossible to access the sink without interfering with the person cooking and now this plan is completely dead, even if I'd been assured the heat wasn't a factor :). Just fyi I had already made peace with the lack of a cabinet to the left of the stove, that definitely is a searchable issue and comes up on do and don't lists.

I'm going to work up some new ideas and may post them here. I appreciate the quick feedback.