for the first time, i have a wall oven. if you’re doing a new kitchen, i can’t recommend enough a wall oven for ease of access and cleaning.

Right, you can do fillers, but in a small kitchen you are giving up 6” — seems dumb.

I have a full-sized oven/stove. I don’t think it takes too long to heat up. Mine is gas though. Are you looking for electric?

We did this. The kitchen designer thought it was completely normal and had a solution for it already. They created a custom box with filler on each side to enclose the oven. Of course you can tell it's not a normal cabinet, but it looks fine

Anonymous wrote:We are doing this - they are just building cabinetry around it to make it work

How are you designing the cabinets? Are you leaving the hood exposed? And did the cabinet people/ contractor act like it was a nutty thing to do (not that they have the final say, but it’s another thing to deal with). I’m mostly wondering whether it looks off to have a narrower oven underneath the cooktop.

You also need to consider the space underneath the cooktop needed for a vent unless you have a hood.

We are doing this - they are just building cabinetry around it to make it work

It does not make sense to place it underneath because you need a 36 inch cab box there for the part of the cooktop that hangs underneath. It would have to go elsewhere.

I have a 30” cooktop and cook with multiple pots without difficulty, but maybe they’re smaller. You might look at various models to see if any are more efficient and would work for you.

Have you done this? We have a small kitchen but I'm willing to sacrifice the counter space for a 36" cooktop (it's so annoying to cook on the 30" with multiple large pans at the same time, which I do often). But, we don't have space for a wall oven and it sounds like the 36" ranges aren't great because the ovens take awhile to heat up.

Have you done a 36" cooktop with a 30" oven under the counter? Where did you place the oven? I'm assuming the oven would look weird underneath the cooktop because of the size difference, but maybe it could work?