Kitchen units: oven next to corner blank

49IM

Does this work and fit? A built-in oven unit butted against a half-blank corner unit:



colours of the other units are arbitrary.

Or would the oven door catch on the unit to its right? Do I need to find room for a small filler unit, 300mm or so, between the oven unit and the orange one?

Thanks,

brightontraveller

49IM wrote: »

Does this work and fit? A built-in oven unit butted against a half-blank corner unit:



colours of the other units are arbitrary.

Or would the oven door catch on the unit to its right? Do I need to find room for a small filler unit, 300mm or so, between the oven unit and the orange one?

Thanks,

As you have it would/could limit the type of oven in future as some can open downwards some to either left /right or some only left/ right etc making removing shelves, opening fully etc restrictive personally middle of units along wall but anything moving it the 300mm unit is better than tight butted...

EssexExile

Will the opening oven door hit handles on the adjacent unit? It depends on the type of handles & where they are. I think a bigger worry for me would be the heat from the oven on the adjacent unit.

DaftyDuck

I don't think it will work ... it certainly won't work well!

Top down door will certainly snag handles. Side opening door will have opening restricted (left hinge) and trap steam, or (right hinge) be likely too snag on opening. Grease splatter and vapours will stain doors, which may damage from heat radiated on opening. You will be hit by a heatwave each time you open the door.

Even a small unit, or a blanking plate, or a tray/towel thingy slot would sort it.

But, oven there? You will regret it...

googler

49IM wrote: »

Or would the oven door catch on the unit to its right? Do I need to find room for a small filler unit, 300mm or so, between the oven unit and the orange one?

Thanks,

I reckon the oven door will catch on either/or the door/handle of the corner unit.

You don't need a whole unit separating them, just get a decor panel from the supplier

Ruski

The corner will be designed with a corner fillet, which will give you about 50mm clearance to the face of the corner unit door. I've fitted many like this (mainly dishwashers tho) and it works with drop down type doors as cupboard handles are 'normally' less than the width of the fillet and thus a drop down door will pass them.

As has been suggested a RRH oven door may be problematic tho as the handles tend to stick out more than the fillet width and thus may give problems with changing shelves etc.

So - either use a drop down door or as above, or a small decor panel cut to width

HTH

Russ

FreeBear

DaftyDuck wrote: »

I don't think it will work ... it certainly won't work well!

Agreed. And it will look very unbalanced.

Unless there is an overriding need to shove the oven in to the corner, I'd suggest putting it in the middle of that run of units and move the hob over as well. That way, you'll have plenty of counter top either side of the hob (assuming no full height wall cabinets) and easy access to the oven.

tonyh66

can you not shove a 150mm unit (wine rack) in there to move the oven to the left?

theonlywayisup

I do like symmetry in a kitchen as far as you can have it. How about you post up your kitchen measurements and plot the windows/doors and see if fresh eyes help.

49IM

Thanks for the replies, everyone. There are some reasons for the placement there - currently I have a freestanding oven in the same spot and that's where the gas is. The sink has to go to its left, under the window and again by all the existing plumbing. I may be able to shift things 150mm as suggested.

This is ideally what I want:



Note that room shape and door placement isn't exact, just the rough idea. And the sink will be more central under the window, basically just with a 500mm or so clear space before the hob. The washing machine will actually sit underneath the sink's draining board, so that part of worktop will terminate with some legs or a panel, having bridged the washing machine. But I can't design it that way on the website.

Is it a big deal to move a gas supply? There's no way I'm taking the floor up, only just tiled it!

EssexExile

The gas pipe can run around under/behind the units.