You'd get better answers if you posted the floor plan and elevations for your actual kitchen as well as the inspiration photos.

In general, however, when a hood is placed between wall cabinets, I personally favor the look of an insert into matching cabinets instead of a metal hood, as in photo #5.

I especially do not care for the look of a chimney hood between cabinets, as seen in photo #4. If you definitely want a metal hood, go with the first one you posted.

Thank you. I'm sorry. No elevations yet from kitchen designer but floor plan is below. Thank you for the advice.

Very nice plan--I stand by my comments above though.

I'm in the same dilemma with an almost identical kitchen layout. Like Diana, I don't like the look of chimney hoods between cabinets and I'm hoping to use an undercabinet hood similar to what you posted. However, I'm going with SS because the black will get caked with dust and grease over time (not that the SS one won't but the black will show it much sooner and I don't like to clean ;) )

Agree...not a fan of chimney hoods in general especially when flanked so closely with upper wall cabinets. I much prefer a "canopy hood'...which is like photo #1 and #3 that you posted.

Diana Bier, have you noticed, too, the Love Affair clients seem to have with chimney hoods? Why is this??? :-)

Haha, KP, yes, and I don't know. Is it the same love affair everyone has with islands??? Shove an island into EVERY kitchen whether it makes sense or not.

Although I must confess I do have a chimney hood, but there are no upper cabinets on the wall, and the entire cook space is flanked by windows. The reason I chose it is that it was very cost effective to purchase from GE Monogram with the range top, speed oven, and wall oven. Also with no upper cabinetry to die into, a canopy hood or a vent insert in a cabinet would have looked strange.

Your kitchen is an example of a kitchen that's MADE for a chimney hood! When it's a stand alone piece! I like chimney hoods!!!! But with how your kitchen is!!!

A few weeks ago, a bachelor came in wanting a chimney hood. He had soffits built at 81" from floor. Soffits were staying. It took me forever to explain to him why he couldn't do a chimney hood. I felt bad for him because he really wanted it.

I prefer a chimney-style hood and plan to install one in my new kitchen above a pro-style range. I think a pro range is a statement appliance and can act as a focal point for a kitchen. The under cabinet vent hoods look a bit "dinky" to me personally, especially over something like a Bluestar.

Click the link to see this one.

ZLINE Designer Series Wall Mount Range Hood (8597B), 36" · More Info

Good evening everyone.

Just wanted to follow up.

We removed a cabinet between hood and wall ovens and reconfigured corner cabinet to make it (what we think) is more aesthetically pleasing for a chimney style hood.

Diana I think the reason people want islands is most designers seem to include them.

Look at all the design awards...all show islands. It's the in thing. People see that and think WOW I want an island.

I find in most cases they interfere with the flow of cooking, moving from point A to B. One has to constantly move around the silly island which gets in the way.

I spend an inordinate amount of time walking around this oblong shaped island in the middle of my kitchen. It's the first thing to go if I can figure out how to arrange the rest of the space to be functional.

Inga

I suspect you'll find an under cabinet could both enable you to have more storage and be easier to clean. If you choose the exposed black exhaust pipe -- that's the alternative you're showing -- that will be the focal point of your kitchen. Is that really what you want?

The "compromise" and, in my opinion, by far the best choice of the three is the higher hung stainless steel under cabinet unit. YOU Choose the amount of visual/headroom YOU want/need rather than arbitrarily setting it very high or low. You don't want to be standing at the stove looking at the bottom of the stainless steel unit; however, you don't want it so high that any steam or oily mist bypasses the unit.

Measure the height of the person that will be doing the most cooking and have your under-cabinet stainless steel stove exhaust unit hung no more than a couple of inches above that. If you do that, I'm pretty sure you'll find the stainless steel under cabinet unit shown in the first of the three room pics the easiest to keep looking new. It will also go well with stainless steel/black appliances

Good morning Houzz,

We are in the final design phase and thought for sure we were set on the under cabinet 42” hood but after looking at side by sides with a chimney style, I have a slight feeling that it looks a little squished with double ovens on same wall. We are unable to move ovens to a different wall with L shaped layout.

Looking for any feedback for one or the other.

Thank you!

Hands down, my preference would be for #2. It's a beautiful seamless look.

@Kayla - When you say "a pro range is a statement appliance" what does that mean? A statement of what? I'm really trying to understand, not be confrontational. I see the phrase "statement piece" bandied about frequently. I've always found it odd marketing jargon that always gives me pause.

I think Kayla means that many of the pro ranges are very big and some of them are beautiful colors. They have lots of bling and homeowners install them for lookin not for cookin!

Anyway the OP has a range top not a full range

Looks gorgeous!!!

Would love to know what under cab hood you went for. We have a similar layout with a 36” induction cooktop. Looking for a 42” under cab hood.

Hi we went with a Zline 42” under cabinet stainless model. It looks nice. It’s very loud when on higher settings. When cooking smokey meats, etc on the range top, we can see the high volume of smoke being sucked up. Even with this, copious snob smoke and grease escape and coat the face of the range hood.

It looks very good! I recently had a Z-line put in and yes it's loud but it does the job much better than the old Cavaliere I had. I had to work with what I had (no major remodel and a budget) and I wanted *push buttons* (no touch pad -- I *hated* the touchpad on the other fan), so I was limited as to what I could get. But so far so good. But yea - it's loud.

Thanks Daniel! It looks really nice! Do you have an internal, remote, or external blower?

Internal blower

@Daniel - I did not see a mention in this thread about the size of your duct that goes from the hood to outside. Hood noise is frequently related to the duct diameter not being large enough for the amount of cfms the hood has. The duct size might not be the reason yours is noisy, but it would help people reading this thread to know for their own kitchens.

8” round duct was the minimum recommended size with Zline.

Builder had installed a 6 inch and I caught it before drywall.

They said it would be fine.

They initially fought me on replacing with 8” but relented.