Vote Please - Hood Side Panel

12 years ago

Due to the interesting shape of my kitchen I have a situation where there is a cabinet on one side of my hood and a window on the other side. Above the hood is a cabinet that hides the venting to the outside.

I am installing a stainless steel hood. The shaker cabinets are white (Swiss Coffee) and the window is vinyl with a Swiss Coffee trim.

The cabinetmaker wants to know if I want the panel of wood on the window side to go long - down to meet the edge of the range hood. I am inclined to say "no" and leave it where the range begins - shorter. But maybe it would look more finished if I had it go down to the edge of the hood. An image showing both is attached. Any thoughts?

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User
12 years ago
Needs a stainless chimney hood not an under cabinet hood. The cabinet contributes to the off balance feeling.
texaspenny
12 years ago
I agree a chimney hood would look great there. If for some reason that is not possible/desired, I would go no-panel. It looks odd.
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User
12 years ago
To answer your OP, If you keep that design that you've posted, do not have the cabinet side panel cover the side of the hood. That would look weird. Just have the cabinet panel cover the cabinet.

If you want to take the suggestions of the other posters and do something different in the way of the hood, I think that would be good alternative. What I would do is get a taller hood - the one in your pic looks like it is perhaps 9" tall. Get a hood instead that is 18" tall, and it will look better without that tiny cabinet above it. The tiny cabinet will be useless for storage anyway, so doesn't serve much of a function, yet you'd be paying for the cabinetry there. Spend that money instead on a taller hood.
Fori
12 years ago
If it's a cute cottagey kitchen, I would get a panel like in #1 but give it a "tail" that goes as low as the cabinet on the other side; have it curve in and pretend to be a corbel supporting the hood.

I'd probably regret it. :)

No panel would be second choice.
firstmmo
12 years ago
I agree with the others. The very first thing I thought was that it really deserves a chimney hood. I apologize if this offends you, but that short hood screams "80s" or something similar to me. Your nice white shaker cabinets with the clean look would look so much more updated if you continued with a contemporary hood. I doubt that another chimney hood would be that much more expensive than the hood shown plus the cabinet cost. I have seen some really good deals on chimney hoods at our local appliance store, on eBay and other websites.
wilson853
12 years ago
Here's another option that you may want to consider, if this isn't the only window in your kitchen. I recently grappled with a very similar situation in my remodel, and rather than dealing with the lack of symmetry on either side of the range hood, I opted to order a glass fronted cabinet and it will be installed over the window. In effect, the window becomes the back of the cabinet, similar to the picture in the link below. The cabinet to the left of my hood will also have glass, however there is no window, and the rear of that cabinet will have a mirrored back.

https://www.houzz.com/photos/breakfastforfour-traditional-kitchen-miami-phvw-vp~1376302-transitional-kitchen-miami