Beautiful new L-shaped kitchen, new construction, no experience

  • Erstellt am 2025-01-19 14:56:31

Tolentino

2025-01-20 14:11:36
  • #1
A dead corner is also an excellent secret hiding place.
 

wiltshire

2025-01-20 14:56:53
  • #2
Your kitchen space is not easy to "work with," but the design has succeeded quite well in that regard. I have good experience with Siemens appliances myself – I haven't looked further into the selected models. At the time, we chose the respective top models due to a minimal price difference during the pricing process. A good salesperson calculates so that it pleases their customer and yet leaves enough margin. Possibly, they were able to win me over just as easily.

There are a few aspects where I see some "tricks and catches," which I'll simply share with you.

This visually appealing feature costs practicality in daily use.

Consider requesting the same material as the worktop in a thinner version – if you like this look.
In the kitchens of our children’s apartments, we used colored glass.

As this combination is drawn, the refrigerator protruding further will impair the practical use of the oven. The oven is positioned so that the path with a baking tray or form to the worktop is quite long. With a bit of bad luck, there might also be a collision since the oven is in the "runway."
From a practical point of view (and visually much calmer), a large built-in refrigerator (or two...) is the better solution. I would place the oven further from the entrance area and closer to the opposite work surface – or directly near the cooktop, which would require a tall cabinet, for example next to the window, if placed at a comfortably high level.

Don't make the dishwasher higher – unloading the upper area will then no longer be enjoyable.




Definitely try out the working height.


Make sure the faucet does not obstruct the opening of the window.


The "carousel" only serves to make an otherwise hard-to-reach storage space more conveniently accessible. There are various mechanisms for this. If you know what you want to put there, then you can decide whether you want it at all or which mechanical solution is suitable.

Although I am quite fond of beauty and aesthetics, I am less willing to make concessions regarding ergonomics in the kitchen than in other areas. In your design, the distances, especially from the refrigerator to the cooktop, as well as between the cooktop and the oven and between the oven and the work surface, are too far. I am not an experienced kitchen planner and therefore do not have a better suggestion offhand. There must be good reasons why the kitchen layout in the house design did not play a major role.
 

Arauki11

2025-01-20 16:18:59
  • #3
Even though I usually am not necessarily always in favor of a pantry, I would reconsider this here and prefer to implement this solution built on the "outside corner" with a separate storage room and a nice (sliding) door, because I wouldn't like the angling of the room as it is now.
Likewise, I would consider a French-door refrigerator, because you significantly limit your options regarding selection and usually pay unnecessarily higher prices while only having 2 x 45cm doors. Similar to American side-by-side refrigerators with narrow doors and limited inner compartments, I perceive that as a disadvantage.
For this reason, I have always had European side-by-side models, that is simply two full-sized appliances side by side connected by a linking piece. These are available from Siemens/Bosch, Liebherr etc., in 2 x 60cm widths. I find it not only nice for refrigerators when the interior is not overcrowded or when there is some space, and even for the two of us I do not find it too large. I have all appliances from Siemens IQ500 and 700 and everything works perfectly; you just have to look at the small differences. Above all, you then also have a sufficiently large freezer compartment and, for a few euros more, an ice maker, if you like that. French-door refrigerators also always appealed to me aesthetically, but in the end we always decided against them for practical reasons.
 

Tolentino

2025-01-20 19:11:59
  • #4
I have two large refrigeration units as built-in versions side by side. On the left a freezer, on the right a refrigerator (without a freezer compartment) and in the hallway another 80 cm refrigerator (without a freezer compartment) for drinks. To be honest, we have often bought things we still had in stock because of this. So almost too much space... Only the three to four drawers on a French door would be too few for me, the narrow side on a side-by-side also too impractical, as already mentioned.
 

tomtom79

2025-01-20 20:33:09
  • #5
Where are we currently standing with such a size and price? Is 25,000 euros still enough?
 

NeuDabei2025

2025-01-25 16:11:04
  • #6
The actual workspace unfortunately becomes too small.
 

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