Hello! I love these discussion pages and they have really helped me out with deciding on our new kitchen layout and appliance selections. We are finally about to start our kitchen renovation in the next couple of weeks and need to lock in cabinetry. I need to make a decision on the refrigerator wall. I will post this both in kitchens and appliances. Please see below images. The only corrections that need to me made here are the cooktop will actually be a 36” Wolf gas range, and the fridge wall will actually have a 42” SZ French door fridge and a Miele CSO to the right in a 24” wide cabinet stack. My question is - we have a microwave drawer currently in the plans in the island. I am wondering if it is better to stack a microwave with the steam oven to the right of the fridge since it’s a 24” space already, and this will open up more drawers on the island. I was thinking either do a built in above it that opens like an oven, or put a microwave drawer below it. Does anyone have experience doing something similar? We use our microwave regularly and don’t want to hide it in a pantry. A few more details:
-The opening by the wall oven is into the dining room
-we are a family of 4 (we have two children - 4yo and baby)
-drawer micro under oven keeps steam oven at eye level which is nice but i can see myself getting annoyed with waiting for the micro drawer to close (same concern if it’s on the island of course) and I don’t know if I’d like mismatched appliances stacked on each other
-if I match micro with the oven, it would be the Miele micro that opens down like an oven - does anyone have feedback on using a micro of this style?
-i am tall (over 6 feet)

I am also in a debate with myself over getting a 48” side by side fridge instead and dropping the pantry to 30”. It is our only pantry (it will be a cabinet with roll out shelves) and we do have a fridge/freezer in the garage. I’m just not a huge fan of drawer freezers, but i could also see disliking the produce bins at the very bottom of a side by side.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!