I think if the hood would look better if it was rectangular and not angled.

Have a hood wider than the cooktop

agree that the hood is too high. And the cabinets beside it exacerbate this by being so low. I’d fiddle with those proportions to get it to feel better.

And the corner pantry looks like it's hulking over the whole kitchen. Who designed this kitchen? In addition, is the left side of the fridge against a wall or does it protrude into a doorway? You may have a problem with being able to fully open your fridge.

Be sure to check the required distances above the countertop and range. For example, this 36"Fisher & Paykel Series 9 Classic Series specifies 30" between the cooktop and hood, and 18" minimum between the adjacent countertops and cabinets. See also Café 36" Smart Dual-Fuel Range specs. These are common requirements. Knowledgeable people on houzz often recommend that the hood be 6" wider than the range.

@blubird it is beside a wall. I agree that the pantry door looks like it comes too far into the kitchen! I’m not sure what the fix for that will be. We are working with a local designer. I will post the plan of the kitchen to see if you (or anyone else) has a fix for that specific issue.

So I should go with a 42” range hood if my range is 36”? Would it be best to go with floating shelves at that point since it doesn’t leave much room for upper cabinetry?

Here is the plan so far of the kitchen.

There are some issues with the design of this kitchen.

A corner pantry is something a builder does in tract homes. A custom kitchen designs a better way to handle dry goods and appliances.

Your hood should be wider than the cooktop and is it possible to divert the exhaust pipe into the wall like in this kitchen?

The OP appears to be using island trim against a wall with a gas cooktop. There are requirements related to wall internal combustibility that have to be accommodated. Please read the installation requirements. In some cases, making the wall surface non combustible is not adequate.

Hood overlap, CFM, and make-up air system need to be defined before or in concert with cabinetry, never after. Please review the hood topics on this site.

BeverlyFLADeziner, thank you for your response! I loved the idea of a corner pantry so that wasn’t my designers fault. This will be a pretty large walk in (not a triangle like I’ve seen in most). The cabinet company that did our 3D rendering did a terrible job on the proportions of that pantry wall, it will not stick out that far. I will look into the exhaust pipe going into the wall as I think that would help a lot! Would you still recommend a 42” hood for a 36” range? This will leave no room for upper cabinetry on that wall, but I have seen nice floating shelves beside a range hood that I could do.

IMO that range needed to be on an outside wall. The pantry is IMOa huge waste of space and agood KD could have provided much better design Now that hood IMO is all wrong anf those huge soffits are just ugly .The hood is too high and IMO crossing in front of the range to go from fridge to sink always bad design Interior designers are not kitchen designers often BTW

You won't be able to fully open the left side of the fridge if it's directly next to a wall (been there, done that, never again). It won't even open to 90 degrees due to the handle so opening inside drawers is problematic on a daily basis. I even had to pull the whole fridge forward beyond the wall in order to remove drawers for cleaning.

If you end up starting over, add drawers instead of lower cabinets, don't do an angled hood, and truly rethink the corner pantry-that's currently your focal point and I concur with all that Beverly said above in her comment about that style of pantry.

Wrong skinny jeans zipped up with pliers. If you are going to do a hood like that, it needs to be wider than the range, with a lot of negative space around it for it to not feel cramped, and for cleaning ease.

Always go wider on the hood than the cooking zone.

Bad phone manipulation, but a much more workable look.

Wrong hood for the space.

Please get rid of the corner pantry. It breaks up the entire kitchen and throws an obstacle between the range and sink. Can't tell without dimensions but you might be able to salvage it with a hidden pantry door next to the fridge. Not sure if there would be enough space for the range though.

Like this. The pantry is still more than big enough and your kitchen will look much better.

One more suggestion. Get rid of this corner. It doesn't give you anything but hard to reach storage. Let the cabinets die into the wall.

If you get rid of the uppers, you can shift the fridge over a bit to the right and it'll be a lot easier to open it. (I also have a fridge that butts up against a wall, and not only can I not pull out the left drawers to clean them, whenever I open the left hand door halfway [which is as far as it will open], it hits the light switch on the wall and the kitchen is suddenly bathed in darkness. It's awesome.)

Also: can you rotate the island and add a prep sink? Otherwise, you're going to be criss-crossing the island+range all the time between the fridge and sink, and I think it'll be annoying.

Actually, even better, put your range on the back wall and move the fridge inside the hidden pantry door that I showed. Then you have a functional kitchen with the fridge actually inside of it.

@tlynn1960: "You won't be able to fully open the left side of the fridge if it's directly next to a wall..."

If you look closely, the wall adjacent to the refrigerator is shallow -- not much deeper than the cabinet above it -- and the refrigerator door sits forward of it.

I think the biggest problem with the fridge is that it's in the dining room, not the kitchen.

Show us where you planned to place the dining room table please.

If you planned for a 7ft table to seat up to 8 people, this is now it lays out.

Beverly, that is exactly where we plan on placing the dining room table but with a 6 seater.

I'm not too fond that your fridge extends out into the room so I have supplied two options to address that. By provide more cabinets, I eliminated the lonely bank of cabinets on the RH side and changed that to a sideboard with hutch, a furniture piece. Maybe something like this below but larger.

Is there a sink in the island? A food prep sink should be considered IMO.

Here are examples of how others have addressed hidden pantries.

Wow, this is so helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this for me!