I hope you have a good cleaning service, because those floating shelves aside the range will become grimy and greasy, no matter the ventilation…but, especially with a minimalist hood.

Thanks Darbuka, I did have a very similar layout with flanking floating shelves in previous home and I didn’t have much problem keeping them clean. Maybe the exhaust output was more powerful.

I certainly appreciate the heads up though ✅

Hard to tell from the pictures whether the hood will have enough depth to meaningfully evacuate effluent. Is it deeper than the surrounding cabinets? It's all about the capture area

The hood insert would be about 21” in depth & 34” wide. 2 levels of floating shelves will flank the range on either side and they will be approximately 12” to 14” in depth.
It’s hard to find a hood like the one in the image and I’m sure it’s custom made. I just don’t want the hood to be the focal point.

Actually, the hood IS the focal point in your inspiration pic. It's just so minimal, beautifully designed, and wonderfully styled. This minimal hood makes sense flanked by larger cabinets. It creates a really nice recessed area as the focal point. But, I don't see a need for such a short hood in your drawing. If it were a rectangle were 50% taller, it would highlight the open shelves better and be a more effective visual design.

I'm curious about the efficacy of such a short hood and how it works. Have you investigated that yet?

I you use a standard exhaust insert they are fairly tall

Here's a fan with a slimmer profile.

Or you could purchase a standard exhaust hood and simply build a wood facing around it.

They stilll sell an exhaust hood that has a glass visor that turns the fan on when the shield is slid out.

https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Telescopic-Circulation-Adjustment-Extractor/dp/B0DFYHWHCJ

You will need a hood with good CFM if those shelves are a must . I really dislike much open shelving in kitchens and anywhere neare a range never . There are a tonof minimal looking hoods but not all are gret at venting , function first pretty after function. I do not thing the inspo is functional witha display shelf up above. Is your range gas, or induction? We need to see your other kitchen choices to help with any material at all.

You are all so correct and I’m very appreciative to opening my eyes to see a better alternative.

A low profile, black matte finish with at least 800 cfm for the 5 burner cooktop will look great and really tie in the other components of the kitchen as well. The wall is exterior and can be vented directly outside.

Here is a collection of finishes to be used.

Many thanks!

The vent hood should be 6” wider than the cooking surface. A 36” range requires a 42” hood, for proper coverage and removal of cooking effluents. And should cover the front burners. This is in addition of appropriate CFMs for extraction.

Perhaps our resident venting experts, @kaseki, or @opaone will pipe in.

As Darbuka mentioned, be sure your hood is at least 6" wider than your cooking surface and at least 24"D to cover the front burners - 19" or 21" will not cover those burners.

So, for a 36" wide range, the hood should be at least 42"W x 24"D.

These dimensions are even more important if you are going to have open shelving next to the range.

On the other hand, if you don't cook much or don't cook much more than boil water or you only use the back burners and never the front, maybe it will not be as big of an issue.

[Don't take offense, we've had quite a few people over the years say they don't cook much (or at all) and just want a "pretty" hood or are aiming for a particular "look". Recent years has seen an uptick in the number of people of who say they don't or rarely cook.]

What @darbuka said.

Start with functional requirements and then figure out aesthetics.

Your inspo photo is not something that will result in good ventilation. A beautiful kitchen isn't so enjoyable if you develop COPD.

It depends on how much you cook and how you cook.

You can find a low profile 36” hood insert, duct it straight out the wall, wrap wood around it, and get something that looks quite close to your inspo pic.

Will it work well? No. But if most of your cooking is in the oven or microwave, and you don’t use the burners much at all - imagine if all you have is a wall oven, microwave, and a dinky plug-in hotplate, would that suffice for your cooking? - then it may work enough.

If all you are wanting is a mood, a look?.......? It doesn't matter.

There's a lot of hand wring over hoods, effluents etc. Rarely does anyone ask WHAT you cook, and how do you cook it?

Do you stir fry, do you do a lot of high heat searing? Is it fish? ! Or do you boil some very harmless water, and head outside to grill chicken or some other protein .

Lost on many here? That many folks buy a 36 inch range for its PRESENCE in a kitchen and on a feature wall.!! Truer yet with 48 inches.

How do you cook and what do you cook......and COPD unless you were cooking all day, probably isn't a gigantic worry.

This? Would be a fail without the cabinet flanking it.

If you want it? Increase the width by a lot and skip the shelves entirely.

Your drawing? No.: )

@JAN MOYER, doesn’t matter if all she does is boil water to cook pasta 3xday. Do you see the range in her mood board? That Berti has a gas cooking surface. You turn on a gas burner, you’re spewing and inhaling harmful gas effluents. It’s not all about what you cook. It’s the heating source that matters a great deal.

My home came with a one year old Bertazzoni. I F-ing HATE it. If it were not so new, I'd replace it. The range blows hot air into the kitchen. I thought there must be a problem with ours, but I have read about this in many forums, and it is the norm. I can't stress enough the need to shop around.

I live in NYC and they seem to be a big seller here. All I can figure out is nobody really cooks here and they just want a pretty range? I would cook much more if heating the oven didn't turn my kitchen into an inferno.

I don't know much about hoods because my coop doesn't allow external ventilation. BUT, if one thing a hood can do is to remove hot air from a kitchen, if you get a Bertazzoni, get a really, really strong hood that covers as much area as possible and can capture the heat coming out of the oven, because your kitchen is about to become a furnace.

By the way, you are creating one handsome kitchen. Hope you post pics when you are done.

If the gas effluents were killing people, I'd have a cemetery full of deceased clients.

half of whom forget to turn on the fan at all.

As to "Berto" whomever? and turning a kitchen to a blasted inferno? I consider that an off brand bought for looks and looks alone.

I'd have a 36 inch Monogram in a heartbeat. Fantastic machine sealed burners ,,,gorgeous, fabulous oven. Not one client doesn't love it - from Galley size kitchen to a whole lot bigger. No it doesn't change the temperature of any kitchen by a single degree. It's called insulated!!! lol

Looking now into a much stronger venting system with a 24” depth but will still keep the floating shelves. I do cook a LOT but do most of my searing out on the gas grill on cast irons. We do have good ventilation in the house and will exhaust the cooktop directly outside. If the Bertazzoni turns out to be a dud after some trials, we will look to replace it in the future.

We pickup cabinets tomorrow and the wood floor prep starts tomorrow. Soapstone slab selection next week. Hope to be cooking in 4 weeks!

*** pic is our previous kitchen with a similar style ***