Idea to incorporate old wall return into kitchen design

[bruce_miranda]

We are having our kitchen extended and one of the end returns is being used to mount the beam, so it will stick out. Problem is that this wall will have the kitchen counter and the beam breaks it up. The vertical return will stick out 500mm proud of the rear wall, so still within the limits of the kitchen worktop but more than the top kitchen units.

Does anyone have any ideas or pictures of how this can be incorporated into the kitchen design without it looking really odd!

[Neil - YVM]

It is possible to loose a pier inside s tall larder unit or between 2, but it would depend if your kitchen layout would work with 1 or 2 tall units at that point.

[TA14]

Can you sit the beam on a 152UC?

[singlecoil]

It's been known for people to site a cooker next to the return, then build a matching dummy the other side (of the cooker), mantlepiece to connect the two, with a chimney type extractor built in.

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singlecoil said:

It's been known for people to site a cooker next to the return, then build a matching dummy the other side (of the cooker), mantlepiece to connect the two, with a chimney type extractor built in.

Just refitted a kitchen where this had been done, behind the studwork was a brick pier holding up one end of a 3m concrete beam. Had to extend it into the wall as it was 200mm short once the pier was taken out.

[bruce_miranda]

The dummy pier idea has already been discounted by the Mrs

[Iang84]

You could try to turn the front of it into a small feature with lots of visible herbs/spices or foody pictures, blackboard for messages/shopping lists

[smn159]

singlecoil said:

It's been known for people to site a cooker next to the return, then build a matching dummy the other side (of the cooker), mantlepiece to connect the two, with a chimney type extractor built in.

That's what we did - work in progress though






And the other side...