First up is the floor plan. It shows the kitchen, as well as the family and dining rooms. Windows B1 and B2 wil be sliding windows. We've made a couple changes to the floor plan since Eric drew this, most notably moving the oven to the right of the fridge, increasing the overhang on the dining room side of the peninsula to 15", shortening the length of the peninsula cabinets to allow 3'6" between the end of the peninsula and the wall, and adding a 15" overhang on the short end for additional seating (at the expense of a cabinet, but I think it's worth the price).
Here's what we're putting in:
- 48" Sub-Zero with stainless steel doors
- Wolf 30" L-series double oven
- Wolf 36" gas cooktop
- Wolf 36" downdraft fan behind the cooktop
- Wolf convection microwave
- Miele Diamond G dishwasher
The cabinets are fully custom built, and will be made by Scherr's Cabinets and Doors in North Dakota. The door fronts and the box sides will be vertical grain douglas fir with a clear finish. Here are the cabinet designs:
Originally we were going to have the same setup we have currently, which is the same 36" gas cooktop, and a 36" electric oven beneath it, like so:
We don't like the big vent hood, so we opted for the downdraft. Unfortunately the downdraft needs 7" in front of it, so it won't fit well behind the oven (which takes up the entire cabinet box). Our choices would be to let it sit 7" behind the cooktop, or move the cooktop back 3.5" and then have the fan 3.5" behind it. Neither of these is ideal. What would work nice is if Wolf allowed the vertical part of the downdraft fan to be reversed, so the 7" would then extend beyond the fan (and behind the oven). The oven cabinet box would then be 7" deeper, but that would be somewhat hidden by the 15" overhang (although your feet would hit it if you sat there). Our interim idea was to put the oven to the right (which is what you see in the floor plan above), but the double ovens look great, and should look good next to the giant fridge. We gave up 30" of counter space to do so, but we have ample with the long peninsula.
More details to come later, including updated drawings of the kitchen.
