Kitchen Design Pet Peeves | 5 Things That Grind My Gears 

Thanks for the reminder. I'm thinking of putting an addiction on my small house (624 ft) I know I want a pantry but never thought of a broom closet!!!

Thanks Barb! I know what you mean, I love a fully integrated kitchen! 😁

In defense of the Americans, we eat a lot and we have this predisposition to think that big is always better. 😒 Big house, big car, Big fridge. I’m preparing to redo a kitchen and I think it’s almost impossible to find a large fridge with cabinet depth. Thanks for your advice Michael, I’ll probably put it at the end of a row, so it’s not a visual and actual obstacle. Love your videos. Please remember to always include us measurements, helps the US viewers.

Love it! Great list. Definitely with you on the under-mount sink and having one large bowl! Thanks for commenting! 😁

Interesting and good to know, I often wondered why they weren't as common in the US. You're right, they are much more readily available and a standard item here in the UK. Do you think integrated dishwashers will start to become more 'standard' in the US?

Add that American tastes are quite tacky compared to British lol

@@kitchinsider Having lived in both places, I think dishwashers are generally more common in the US than in the UK, and especially in the past. (Many people in the UK need space in the kitchen for a washing machine, whereas Americans put the washing machine somewhere else.) So dishwashers in the US evolved in kitchens of the past that did not use paneling to cover the plastic or metal. In the US, people are used to the exposed look. Some people like the sleek, futuristic look of it as evidenced by the stainless steel appliance trend. Integrated refrigerators and dishwashers will become more popular in the US I think, but maybe not standard. The quality of appliances seems quite unreliable these days, so a non-integrated one is probably easier to replace and refit.

@@stf4040 Horseshit. Brits as a nation are not somehow gifted with exceptional good taste.

@@kitchinsider Matching a dishwasher face to the cabinet run entails ordering a compatible dishwasher initially and a $200-300 upcharge for the matching face panel. Here in the U.S. matching appliance color or finish is more common and less expensive than matching them to the cabinets.

Excellent decision! 😊

Great minds think alike! 😊

Haha! Thanks Mark. I did actually think about you before I hit publish and almost removed the dishwasher pet peeve section, but I had to be honest. 😂 Heading over to instagram now 👍

@@kitchinsider It was great!

Oh no!! 😬

Haha! I think that's an excellent decision! 😉

Your builder like many trades tells people these things to make their work easier and quicker rather than taking the time to develop/gain tbe knowledge and skills to give their clients the product they are after. Good quality well finished panels will not be affected by by moisture from dishwashers and generally need less effort to clean than most "stainless" steel surfaces which show every finger print/smear left when handled and are very difficult to clean without streaking. My wife and I have designed/built/installed a number of kitchens in our houses and always have built in intergrated dishwashers (the last one was elevated to avoid bending down) without any problems. The biggest issue with dishwashers is cheap poor quality brands. The same applies to builders/trades.

Really interesting learning just how different certain aspects of kitchen design are between North America and the U.K. The whole dishwasher thing has been quite the eye-opener!

not everyone can afford a built in kitchen

Very true! I think you can still keep an eye on the visual balance though. 👍

Haha! I love it. Amazing! I know what you mean about washing machines. I always try my hardest to get them out of the kitchen. Great pet peeves! Thanks for watching.

It's easy to find integrated washing machines in Europe. They're not overly expensive.

Nice! I know what you mean. Blanco do some nice flushmount sinks, when it comes time for a new one.

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Haha! Sorry... 😬

53 drawers? OMG! What a nightmare. You obviously don't cook. No professional kitchen has more drawers than is necessary to accommodate the utensils required for stirring, cutting, scooping and flipping. The average home kitchen needs only about 4 drawers ( 8' to 10' +/- of counter space) to store those items, including a drawer for silverware. When we remodeled our kitchen, we removed the nonsensical 2 dozen IKEA drawers the previous owner had installed and moved them to the garage where they serve a much better purpose. In their place now is practical full extension pull out shelving. BTW, not just my opinion, it's my experience...I'm a retired professional chef. Bank after bank of kitchen drawers is a ridiculous fad in contemporary kitchen design...hopefully following barn doors on the way out.

Yes you are very correct I'm no cook but I like to eat. Particularly fabulous food prepared by a very skilled and talented family trained cooking expert who has kept me well fed for the past 46 years. I am only a cabinetmaker who started building/designing/selling kitchens about 60 years ago who has made many of the usual design mistakes and has suffered the criticism from his cook about the lack of function and congestion created by poorly built kitchens in his initial design attempts. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make as surely shelves on full extension runners are just drawers without backs sides or fronts ? ( Things which over time has proven to contain objects on the sliding shelves.) So wether its drawers or sliding shelves they perform the same function providing the are scaled to suit the objects placed in them . So the drawers in our latest kitchen vary in depth from 70 mm up to 380 mm with a number on full extension runners that extend approx 750 mm. I built bases which are 800mm from the wall to accomodate them as well as 800 wide bench tops for small appliance use. The big thing that drawers have over sliding shelving is the fact they do not require a door over them. Doors are an anathema to circulation within a kitchen and almost always create impediments to movement. Yes we do have doors as we do have overhead cupboards and tall pull out pantry shelving as well as tall shallow 110 mm shelving for storing cooking ingredients. However ultimately there is no right or wrong way to build a kitchen, what is important is that the people using it get the kitchen they desire. I always try to keep an open mind and it is one of the reasons I cam to this u tube channel in the first place as although I'm getting on a bit I find that there is always something different or new to learn. And as a cabinetmaker I think some of the components of Ikea kitchens are of very high quality sold at very economical prices and in many cases much better that most kitchen manufacturers can produce and come with a 25 year guarantee ! Not a warranty but a guarantee.