The main concern is potential interference between the oven door (when open) and the refrigerator door. You can put a nasty dent in the fridge door if someone whacks it into an open oven door. This is especially a concern with a larger family / young teenagers in the house. Refrigerator doors swing fairly wide, although 15 inches sounds like plenty of space to me. If you're concerned, go look at your fridge in the showroom and measure how far beyond the side of the fridge the doors swing when fully open. You might be able to get a piece to limit the door swing or adjust a stop on the door, depending on the mfr. Honestly, though, with 15" I think you'll be OK. Ed

The refrigerator is recessed and I'm going to love it. The drywall isn't mudded or taped, the closet in the guest bedroom needs to be repaired, and hubby smashed his finger ten ways to Sunday, but we're very happy with it. Nothing is going to get back to normal anytime soon though. I said I wasn't in a hurry and am perfectly happy with the mess, but DH isn't happy that I'm dragging my feet with the cabinet selection. There are just so many wonderful things out there and so many beautiful color combinations that I don't want to choose too quickly and then regret it for years and years. I'm sure I want white or creamy cabinets, but a funny thing has happened. Everywhere I look on television series, commercials, movies, there are white cabinets. It's like buying a new car and then meeting yourself everywhere you go...Anyone else experience this?

I have the exact configuration of a full depth refrigerator (ours is SxS, but the door situation is the same idea) next to a pantry. I was worried. I checked. I measured. I worried. It turned out perfect. The pantry door opens beyond 90 degrees. Actually it opens to its full stop which may be 110 degrees. Here's why. The door is about 19 inches wide, which sticks out WAY past the closed refrigerator door. So the cabinet pull can only hit air and since the door approaches the refrigerator at an angle, it goes past the refrigerator door before it extends as far to the side as the refrigerator. I don't know if that makes much sense. I'll post a picture if you haven't already decided against it. I do have a 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch refrigerator side panel instead of 3/4 inch so that helps too. I'm not sure if I can hit the refrigerator with the cabinet door if I try intentionally. I think I can, but my point here was that the cabinet door would open past 90 degrees which is necessary for a pull out. Having the refrigerator stick out past the cabinets (standard depth ref.) has another side benefit. It's harder to hit the cabinets with the refrigerator door too. In my case my refrigerator has a stop BEFORE the cabinets. I can force it further, but it stops automatically before the cabinets. If it were counter depth it would probably be too close to the cabinets when open and might hit them. - Jim

You’ll be surprised at how much larger the range ovens can be than wall ovens. This is due to a lot of details but mainly because its easier to fit the electronics, thermal buffering, etc into a range so the oven cavity is bigger.... Although I’m partial to wall ovens (being one of those freaks that likes to hide every possible appliance due to the common open-concept living)......I can’t deny how nice it would be to have the ovens that are available in a range. I always say: the kitchen you’ll LOVE MOST is a kitchen thats functional for how YOU live. You can have the most magazine ready kitchen & still hate it if it doesn’t work for your lifestyle so forget all the fads & “rules” (as long as its not a structural or code rule hah)....If ur family tends to reach for snacks, drinks, etc while ur cooking then I say make it a priority to place your work triangle outside that zone! Wall pantries can absolutely hold just as much *if not more* than many of the small corner pantries that often have awkward corner shelves which are wasted storage space. straight boxes with pull outs don’t suffer wasted space which makes it possible to hold more items ☺️. I can see why you’d want to double up the next wall pantry area...Have u considered placing the cooktop in the corner & the wall ovens in the cabinet area beside the new closed in opening (in place of the upper/lowers)?