Built In Appliances

Fitting a new kitchen usually involves arranging units and surfaces around various freestanding appliances, each of which has their own advantage, but collectively can cause headaches. Buying a separate dishwasher, fridge/freezer and cooker from different manufacturers, all to fit the style of your kitchen, can sometimes be impossible.

These days though, a common solution is to design your kitchen to include built in kitchen appliances, which are integrated into the kitchen itself. Built in appliances allow a a kitchen to boast a sleek, contemporary style, and can turn a kitchen of thrown-together appliances into a one with a definite style running throughout. With built in appliances, your kitchen looks coordinated and is bound to impress.

Installing a built in kitchen appliance is easy. Your hob can be built directly into the kitchen worktop, for example, creating a clean and integrated surface to cook on. This makes your kitchen look a whole lot tidier, and it will go a huge way towards keeping your kitchen clean. Cursing in frustration as a stray piece of onion or pepper disappears between your hob and the kitchen units is a thing of the past with a built in hob? This is a great example of how built in kitchen appliances can create a stylish, attractive kitchen that is also functional and easy to keep clean.

The range of built in hobs on offer is huge. Naturally, your cooking habits and the ease of cleaning offered by this particular built in kitchen appliance will be huge factors in the hob you choose, but it is easy to find something that suits your need. Gas hobs can be as much as £200 cheaper than other models, and offer instant heat. However, they are a lot trickier to clean, so may not be the first choice for those with little time to spare. For a smooth, easy to clean surface a ceramic hob is a better choice. A ceramic hob will cost you slightly more than if you bought its gas counterpart, but it fits so smoothly into a fully integrated kitchen that you may not even notice it is there.

If your indecision gets the better of you, you can of course choose a combination gas and ceramic hob. A few specialist companies offer this kind of built in kitchen appliance, and for a little extra cost you can customise your hob to suit your needs. Your oven and grill can also be combined into one unit which is again built into the kitchen. The stylish and contemporary theme offered by your built in hob is continued with this appliance, and you can even place the cooker at chest height for easier access. This whole setup looks neat and tidy and is extremely functional.

You must of course consider the issue of repair. With built in kitchen appliances, you cannot simply pull the cooker out from the wall and repair it – a specialist mechanic must be called out to fix the appliance. However, if you don’t mind this complication, a built in hob or cooker can make your kitchen the pride of your home.