We are currently in the process of picking out our kitchen and not only are we having problems with our kitchen being a completly different look to most displays we have hit an unexpected snag with our overhead cabinets.
On our back kitchen bench wall we have a 90cm freestanding oven with a canopy rangehood to match, we have opted to have two sets of 700mm drawers either side of this. We have been given one set of overhead cabinets at 800mm wide on either side of rangehood as standard but have opted to add an extra set of cabinets which now to fit them in has made each cabinet 700mm wide with each door now being 350mm wide and runs right up to rangehood. We thought this was fine as each overhead cabinet measures the same as the bottom drawers and looks nice and symmetrical but after further discussion we are wondering if this makes the overheads too narrow and crowded?
Or should we just keep the standard cabinet either side and just add a single cupboard to it and widen them a bit which would leave a small gap between rangehood and cupboard and not match up with drawers underneath. If we did this then that doesn't match up with the sizing of our drawers underneath and I thought in kitchens you should try and make sure cabinets and drawers line up....Or am I worrying over nothing and the 700mm cabinets at the top matching with the 700mm drawers down the bottom is the way to go and not too narrow or crowded looking. I don't want my kitchen to look odd.
I should mention we are having shaker syle profile to the doors and some will have a glass insert. I hope this all makes sense.
Just edited so I make sense is it better to match the width of a cabinet at the top to the width of a drawer or cabinet down the bottom as much as possible in a kitchen?