Do you have a scaled layout of your kitchen to post? You can do a large range in a small kitchen IF the layout supports it. Pots and pans can be stored in a deep drawer next to the range or even on a nice pot rack if you like that sorta thing.

How about a smaller range with an additional single wall oven?

I have had a 48" range for a nearly 20 years and while I love its two ovens, I often wish it wasn't so damn big! It really makes kitchen planning harder. If it ever died (and there's no chance of that) there's no way I'd replace it with a similar-sized range.

The range plus additional wall oven plan is not the cheapest solution, but it does give you the possibility of one oven that isn't low. Low ovens (even though I'm perfectly content with mine) seem to be out of favor here. Personally I like my ovens, especially when cooking meat, to be under a vent hood. But if you used the wall oven mostly for baking, not roasting, that would take care of the vent and smell problem.

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Maybe think about a 48" cooktop and a pair of wall ovens? That might be more flexible in a small kitch.

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we have a smallish kitchen and chose a 48" range. I absolutely love my big range and wouldn't trade it for anything. It does help that the kitchen has high ceilings and is open to the living room so it feels bigger than it is. we put in lots of upper cabinets for storage and we have a pantry as well. I will try to take some photos and post them so you can see.

I think that igloochick (?) and jcoxmd both had/have rather large and awesome ranges in fairly small kitchens.

Thanks John :). Yes I have a 60" range in a 13x15 kitchen and it looks wonderful. I'll post pics tomorrow for you. We cozyed it up to a wall (12" on one side counter) and I worked quite hard to balance it's visual weight with other items in the room so it wouldn't look odd. A 48" should be easy in comparison :).

Personally I think it would look just fine. It might even make a strong focal point. I'd be worried about 16" clearance though -- most codes require 18" clearance on either sides of a range -- so I'd check that fact before placing the order.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Pictures would be great if you have them. No chance for a wall oven, just no room.

I will try to post a layout later. The wall has an opening (dining room) on one side, so clearance would be okay there, but I don't want to crowed the doorway. The entire wall is probably 90-92" right up to the door jam. Hard to tell becuase we are ripping out ~2" of paneling and paneling framing. Should know for sure soon.

Here is the floor plan. The breakfast room is off to the right. Bath and Laundry to the left, and family room to the far left.

Fridge will to the left of the sink. Under counter microwave to the left of the old coal chimney which we will leave exposed.

since this is an 80 year old house, we don't have much room to work with.

Here's a link. I will see if I can figure out how to embed.

Here is a link that might be useful: Floorplan

I'm in a rush trying to get off to Napa for the weekend so I'm going to do the lazy thing and just link you to the lake house kitchen in photo bucket. Sorry for the lazy but I have tried to get just a pic of the range a couple of times and the iPad won't copy what I want :(.

You can see the finished product as well as the many stages (three year remodel from he'll).

I made sure the range was the focal point in the kitchen but also made sure to incorporate other items of good size to make it all feel right. The lighting is larger in scale but not huge and the fridge L wall has good weight as well for balance. Keeping scale and balance in kitchen with so many windows was a challenge! But I think in general we did a good job.

Our next kitchen will have an even bigger range lol. I'm never one to compromise on what I want! And I want bigger ovens, and hate wall ovens (especially in an old home).

Good luck! Oh as to the code thing....our code was 12" from the wall....and that works fine for us.

Here is a link that might be useful: Igloochic's kitchen

here you go:

I recently saw a big range (big everything!) in a smallish galley kitchen, in a magazine ad, and kept the ad because I liked the cabinetry and layout so much. I went online and found the company's website (Habersham). Select the "galley kitchen". They showed the whole galley in one shot in the magazine, but hopefully you can still get the idea. The two sides of the galley are about 5' apart in the ad.

Here is a link that might be useful: Big stove in small space

Thanks Ironcook. I did forget to mention that this set up only works if you have chickens :op. Heh heh

Thanks for the feedback. We don't plan on ever selling, so I guess we will just do what we want. Probably just looking for justification. A 36" would be fine, but kind of like that 48" wow factor.

I have a 48" range in my not-big kitchen. Looking at your floorplan, I think it will work very nicely.

People talk about needing a certain amount of counter space around a stove (not necessarily on this post) but I can tell you we use the rest of the range as we would a counter. It's not real often that we are using all 6 burners to cook with but they are often used. :) I will even throw a nice dishtowel over the burners (to keep dropped food out) and use it for a buffet. I've done that quite a few times, actually.

Here's a picture of our kitchen, almost the whole thing. To the left is the refrigerator and the wall to the right is a reach in pantry. As you can see, there isn't much counter space.
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Sundownr brings up a point I'll also agree on. KD's we talked to really worried about the counter space (there's about 36 to 40" on one side that deads into the sink and the 12" at the wall you see in the pictures and our island is no where as large as sun's so counter space is at a premium in our kitchen. Our range (Lacanche) comes with an option that is worth looking into in a kitchen challenged with counter issues, and it could also be cheaply made for a range that does not have the option...

It's the silver (stainless) piece you see on the second set of burners (it covers our french top most of the time) but also fits over the soup burner and we have a second for the middle burners. When we're cooking, even for a big crowd we most likely aren't using the entire ranges capability (ie the soup burner is often only used for family cooking) so we just move the stainless cover to the unused burner or burners and use that as additional counter space. It was something like 400 dollars extra but in a small kitchen that was money well spent. Normally it sits as you see it here holding a lazy susan made of a piece of glass I found in the ocean and a spoon rest etc. It's a very handy space for the often reached for items that won't be damaged by a little warmth from the burners next to them.

My stainless steel guy (who did the counters) said he could easily replicate it for a couple of hundred so it's an option for you to consider if you're worried about the space.

Sun....Love Love Love your space. It's a nice play on design to see some basic elements in both of our kitchens and how well they work in both, despite the fact that they're ENTIRELY different design styles. Your stainless I'm sure you must love it (We adore ours...what a workhorse by the range) and the stone on your island is fabulous. Is it a stone or a gorgeous laminate? It looks like a leather finish (or antique) soap stone or black granite....but I've seen that in laminate too....my interest is peeked :) I almost did a nordic black granite in a leather finish which would have looked just like your counter!

Who knew stainless counters, huge range, stone island and shaker cabs could look so totally different...and yet great (IMO) :)

Igloochic, I remember thinking the same thing (same basic elements but totally different look) when I saw your kitchen, also (minus the chickens and rooster :D). We do love the stainless on the perimeter and the soapstone island (real stone). Love your view!

Our kitchen is 11 ' x 14 ' and when we remodeled it the first time I really wanted a 48" range, for the two ovens, but was worried it would be too big in such a small space, so we opted for a 36" one instead. Well, after it was all done, it was clear that we could definitely have done the larger range. I think yours looks fine in the layout you posted. I say go for it. However, if it were my kitchen, I might give up symmetry for the sake of a bigger counter and perhaps do a 9" counter on the inside wall with a pullout base cabinet and a 24" drawer base on the other side. One normally uses the counter on only one side of the range when cooking. I find I never use the counter to the left of my range (the one furthest from the sink) in our L-shaped kitchen.