New kitchen: Install water pipes on the surface

What is the main reason you want to install water? How long is the island, where are you working? Where do you place devices?

Will the kitchen be handleless? I ask because the panel to the left of the fridge is only supposed to be/allowed to be 16mm.

My tip ... the two tall cabinets next to each other, so refrigerator, then the special cabinet with dishwasher below and oven above. And then towards the window the base cabinets with wall cabinets.

That was also my first idea. But then pictures came with water meter, sockets, etc.

But then pictures came with water meters, sockets, etc.

Since the row is to be moved forward anyway, and as far as I understand, the meters etc. are to be moved into the sink cabinet, the tall cabinet relocation should not be a problem.

Thank you for your feedback!

What is the main reason you want to lay water?

The main reason is that we want a kitchen layout with a row on the left wall and a peninsula in front (as shown in the pictures).
And that it is not feasible to connect at the original location.

How long is the island, where do you work? Where do you put appliances?
Will the kitchen be handleless? I ask because the panel to the left of the fridge should/must only be 16mm thick.

The island is just under 2m long and has a depth of 1.5 cabinets (95cm). If you stand in front of the stove, you have the normal cabinet body on one side, and on the other side (facing the living room) you have three "half-depth" cabinets with 35cm depth.
The only "fixed" appliances we have are a small coffee machine and a water carbonator, which will go to the left of the sink.
The kitchen will be handleless except for the fridge and dishwasher, since we did not like the look of vertical handles.

My tip ... the two tall cabinets next to each other, so fridge, then the special cabinet with the dishwasher below and oven above. Then towards the window the base cabinets with wall cabinets.

With a width of max. 290 cm the two towers on the right and left with the relatively narrow gap look a bit strange.

Thanks also for your input! But we prefer the symmetrical version with towers on the left and right.
As hanghaus2023 also pointed out, this is not feasible due to the water meter.
Supply & drainage pipes are to be laid, but the water meter remains in the original location.


I am really overwhelmed by the number of your responses, thanks!
However, the kitchen layout is fixed for us. We have planned the kitchen intensively over a period of 2 months and obtained opinions from various kitchen studios. For us, this is the optimal kitchen given the circumstances.

The only question is how the water pipe routing should be designed and if anything needs to be considered regarding the stove connection box and the socket to the left of the current water connection.

Since you are stingy with information, there is little to say. Presumably, a line still needs to be laid for the stove. The hotplates are coming on the island, right? If you had shown your kitchen plan from the beginning, I could have said something much sooner. Always this piecemeal approach!!!!

Since you are stingy with information, there is little to say.

I can't understand your displeasure. I have posted dimensioned plans of the walls, a detailed description of what we are planning, and additionally submitted sketches of the kitchen again. What exactly are you still missing?

But just for fun, I tried to recreate the kitchen as best as possible in the Nolte configurator. What I couldn’t manage to configure (so please keep this in mind):

- On the back kitchen row, there will be 30 cm high cabinets to close the gap to the ceiling
- The side gaps between the tall cabinets and walls are each covered with a cover panel
- Also, the gaps between the half-island and the wall are covered

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Here is also a close-up of how you can imagine the cover panel at the end:

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If you had shown your kitchen plan from the beginning, I could have said something much faster. Always this salami tactic!!!!

To quote myself:

Because it’s about the technical implementation of the water installation and I wanted to avoid the whole thing turning into a fundamental discussion about the kitchen layout.

Which unfortunately is what happened in the last posts.