ᐅ Beautiful new L-shaped kitchen in a newly built home, with no prior experience

FloHB123 schrieb:

A few additional points about your planning:

• Check if the countertop height works for you. We (173cm (5 ft 8 in)/165cm (5 ft 5 in)) find 91cm (36 inches) comfortable.

FloHB123 schrieb:

A few additional points about your planning:

• A cooktop including a downdraft extractor isn’t necessarily more expensive. You just have to avoid comparing apples and oranges—for example, switching from Siemens to Bora. Both have their pros and cons.
• There’s a lot of savings to be made with electrical appliances without having to compromise. For example, we chose the simplest oven model from Neff. We don’t need a color display with hundreds of programs. The oven should just handle the basic functions (grill, convection, top and bottom heat) and keep the food warm.
• For the oven and microwave, I would pick appliances from the same manufacturer to ensure a consistent look. For other appliances, it doesn’t matter as much; it’s better to focus on function and value for money.

FloHB123 schrieb:

A few additional points about your planning:

• I would choose drawers larger than 60cm (24 inches) if they match the look of the wall cabinets. That way, you’d have fewer handles, which looks neater. You can always divide the drawers inside.

FloHB123 schrieb:

A few additional points about your planning:

• Center handles on doors are hard to open. Have you tried that?

FloHB123 schrieb:

A few additional points about your planning:

• Do you really need these tall drawers everywhere? They can only be filled with tall kitchen appliances unless you stack everything, which isn’t ideal for storage. With Nobilia, it’s possible to do it differently.

tomtom79 schrieb:

What price range are we looking at nowadays for this size? Is 25,000 euros still enough?

Arauki11 schrieb:

I would also consider a French door refrigerator, as you significantly limit your options and usually end up paying unnecessarily higher prices with just two 45cm (18 inches) doors. I find the same applies to American side-by-side models with narrow doors and limited interior compartments, which I see as a disadvantage.
For this reason, I have always preferred European side-by-side, meaning simply two full-sized freestanding units placed side by side with a connecting piece. These are available from brands like Siemens/Bosch, Liebherr, etc., each 60cm (24 inches) wide. I think it’s better not to overcrowd the interior, and even for just two people, I don’t find it too large. I have all Siemens IQ500 and 700 appliances, and everything works perfectly; you just need to look at the minor differences. Most importantly, you get a sufficiently large freezer and, for a few extra dollars, an ice maker if you like that feature. French door refrigerators have always appealed to me visually, but in the end, we always decided against them for practical reasons.

wiltshire schrieb:

Your kitchen space is not easy to design, but this layout works quite well. I have good experience with Siemens appliances myself – I didn’t look further into the selected models. At the time, we chose the top models due to a minimal price difference. [...] I’m not an experienced kitchen planner, so I don’t have a better suggestion off the cuff. There must be good reasons why, in the house design, the kitchen floor plan didn’t play a major role.

NeuDabei2025 schrieb:

What do you think about it?

NeuDabei2025 schrieb:

Thanks for the tip! I checked it out. Unfortunately, the freezers with ice cube dispensers alone cost about as much as the entire French door refrigerator. I don’t want to give up the dispenser in the appliance.