Generally 1 1/2" is the correct overhang. giving you 3/4" overhang in front of drawers... I don't think you'd have that much problem with water drippage & what not. I guess you could do what ever you wanted. One thing to watch out for is access to your drawers. If you have any drawers on the side you're doing a 2" extra overhang, so will that be 3 1/2" total ? Anyway it may be hard to reach into the back of those drawers. Good Luck :) Here is a link that might be useful: granite countertops

hey.. isnt his the JB kitchen ...lol ... but now i see jack ... [this was the cabinet over the fridge problem/???? yes????] listen.. whats your long term goal ... mine was SS ... and unlike most peeps here ... i have a budget ... so ... as things broke down.. and needed to be replaced.. it was done SS ... first came the gas stove in SS ... when i moved in .... then.. a few years later.. the dishwasher took a carp.. and along came a SS DishW ... finally .. the bachelor 14 sq foot 25 year old fridge couldnt keep up with a family of 4 ... and along came the SS fridge .. otherwise... gut the whole thing.. and lets go for it all ... all said.. it took me about 10 years to go SS ... patience??? .. i dont know.. i dont measure my life.. by matching appliances .... but i got what i want ... BTW .. i like your kitchen.. the SS will look good with the wood and the black counter tops ... go for it .... ken

It’s a raised bar, likely the standard 42”. The GC said they would have to add support. There is plenty of room. Wife and I will eat dinner there at night, which is why we are adding a TV above the fridge. Will also be used a lot for parties and get-togethers. The peninsula will go just in front (out of picture) of the cabinets you see at the very bottom of the picture. There will be a sink in that cabinet set. TV goes just above the Subzero fridge large cutout on left. MUA and HVAC vent to left of TV. Fridge is French Door, flush install, hence the 7” border on left part of frame to allow for full articulation of the Left door. 30” Wolf M-series bottom right, Wolf CSO above (incorrectly framed at the moment).

Here are a some pics and my dilemma. Keep in mind this is my old fridge...new one comes today! Here is how we ended up with this: I have never had an enclosed fridge so didn't think about the peninsula dying into panels or how deep panels were going to be. I "semi" designed the new footprint and took it to Lowe's where the KD took over. (yes---I know......) Bought Schuler plywood with maple fronts cabinets. Although the kitchen designer had the model number of the fridge we were buying, which is a full-size, she designed the kitchen with 24" deep panels. She knew I was trying to have the look of an enclosed fridge. Being that I've never had an enclosed fridge, it was something I just didn't think of until the install started. Evidently she put a counter-depth in the design program because the elevation sketches she gave me showed an enclosed fridge. "Luckily" the panels actually came in wrong and were cut at only 23" for some strange reason and the installer caught it right away when looking over everything. Otherwise he probably would have installed them and I would be stuck. So called Lowe's to reorder the panels and somehow in all this it suddenly dawned on me that a full size fridge was going to be deeper and require deeper panels. I thought "no problem! Yay I can order them at 30!" By this time the KD had quit her job due to the pandemic. The other KD didn't know what was going on so we called in the Schuler rep. She was the one who immediately told me that those 30" panels would be sticking out in front of the peninsula. She asked if we could move the peninsula forward since the other side is an overhang for seating, but we couldn't since it would bottleneck the entrance into the kitchen down to under 36" and getting rid of an existing bottleneck was one of the reasons for the re-design to start with. So we had a dilemma. We cannot go down to a counter depth fridge which was the other option. What I decided was to split the difference and order 27" refrigerator panels. The fridge without doors is 29.5" so I will have about 3" of the side of the fridge sticking out which I don't like, but while I want my kitchen to look beautiful, I value the functionality too. The old fridge that you see in the pic sticks out a total of 32" The new fridge will stick out 34 with doors but without handles (4.5" of that is doors that would stick out anyway) Here's the really complicated part....we will be installing decorative panels on the end of the fridge as we have them on all the cabinets. This is how you enter the kitchen and I don't want that big blank space there next to the peninsula. The panels should be installed with just 1/4" reveal. I posted a photo below of how the panels look that are already installed on the side of the pantry that adjoins to a 17" high window seat. Luckily those face the opposite way from the fridge panels so you will never see both at the same time. I also posted photos of us holding up panels on the side of the fridge (they are NOT the right size panels...we have to order those still---we just used these to look at the right edge as to how wide to make the panels.) Also keep in mind we can remove the quartz backsplash piece if that would look better. That was not originally planned...the panels were going to sit directly on top of the countertop. So do we order the panels with just the 1/4" reveal to match the panels in the rest of the kitchen? Or, as the Schuler rep recommended, order the panels so they are the same width with the countertop, leaving about 1 3/4" reveal on the right side, but then your eye follows the countertop all the way up. I asked the countertop templater guy if I should just lengthen the overhang on the kitchen side of the peninsula to 2.5" to bring it out to within 1/4" of the fridge panel but he said no....I'm now thinking I should have insisted on it. Especially since we have full overlay cabinets that already make the overlay look very small since the 1.5" planned overhang is measured from the box, not the front of the drawers. Note how small the overhang looks to the drawers. And then of course, they had templated for a 1.5" overhang and I only got 1.25" UGH! Every quarter inch there would have made the reveal on the side of the fridge less. Suggestions appreciated! I'm hoping that I will eventually make peace in my mind with this issue and won't notice it but it is driving me crazy right now. I think of all the things that screwed up just because of this one error by the KD that I didn't catch and I am beating myself up for it!