ᐅ Installing a refrigerator and oven into an IKEA Metod tall cabinet

Hello!

I need to design a compact studio kitchen due to the limited space, planning a small L-shaped kitchen measuring 1.5 x 1.8 m (4 ft 11 in x 5 ft 11 in). Everything needs to fit in, including a domino cooktop, dishwasher, corner sink, oven, and so on. I want to place a tall cabinet unit at one end of the kitchen to house the refrigerator and oven, which I will need to customize somewhat. According to the online planner, there isn’t an option for this, but the manuals for the planned oven and refrigerator allow both appliances to be installed in the same cabinet. I have planned with white Veddinge units and intend to build the cabinet as follows (from bottom to top):

8 cm (3 in) plinth
1.8 cm (0.7 in) spacer panel
88 cm (34 5/8 in) niche for refrigerator (87.5 cm (34 1/2 in) built-in fridge with door-on-door mounting)
1.8 cm (0.7 in) spacer panel
10 cm (4 in) cutlery drawer
60 cm (23 5/8 in) oven
10 cm (4 in) panel
1.2 cm (0.5 in) upper side panel on top.

I want to use white Veddinge fronts for this and cover the refrigerator niche with a white 92 cm (36 in) Applad front from the Faktum after-sale service. This will cover the 88 cm (34 5/8 in) fridge niche as well as the shelf above and below it.

Of course, I am aware that I will need to cut down a 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) tall cabinet box in height and will have to drill new holes for shelves and drawer runners at different heights because the modified appliance heights will not align with the existing hole pattern.

Is this setup feasible? My main concern is the oven height, which is between 110 cm and 170 cm (43 in and 67 in). According to the official kitchen cabinets in the online planner, the oven is positioned between 88 cm and 148 cm (35 in and 58 in) in height.

I’m not sure if this is feasible, but regarding the installation height, the top rail should be at most shoulder height, preferably lower – otherwise, operating the oven can become difficult or even dangerous. How tall is the person who will be using it?

@nörgli:
The tenant is not yet confirmed, so I can't answer that right now. The top rail will be at 150cm (59 inches). I could of course leave out the cutlery drawer, but then the kitchen would have no drawers at all, or only the drawers possible with Metod at the very bottom of the wall cabinets.

Does the oven really need to be that tall? Compact ovens are only about 45 cm (18 inches) high.

As far as I remember, you need to leave a few centimeters of space under the refrigerator—not the plinth, but underneath—for ventilation. You won't get around having about 100cm (39 inches) of front width there. So you can skip fiddling with the old doors. It should still work with drawers above and the oven. Since the fronts in a rental apartment are supposed to be cheap, I assume that also applies to the oven. The small combination ovens tend to be more expensive.

I wouldn’t shorten the 200cm (79 inches) cabinet with such limited space. That way, you get extra storage at the top. You just need to make sure that something is cut out at the back so air can escape or that there is proper ventilation for convection.

Also, take a look at bubbel’s post here:
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Küchenplanung-Kühlschrank-und-Backofen-in-einen-hochschrank.20813/
Best regards, robi

The fronts for FAKTUM are 2 mm (0.08 inches) narrower. In a cabinet mixed with Metod fronts, this might be noticeable.
Can’t you replace a base cabinet with an undercounter fridge? That way, you would gain the missing space in the tall cabinet.