Central Denver · Washington Park West, Denver
Viking Appliance Repair in Washington Park West, Denver
West of the park the houses are smaller — bungalows and half-duplexes, most with a narrow kitchen at the back that a remodel has modernised without widening. Fit a professional oven on one side and a dishwasher on the other and the room works perfectly until both doors are open at once. That collision is the most common thing to design out here, and it is free to solve on paper.
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Galley kitchen
A kitchen laid out as two parallel runs with a single lane of floor between them, so every appliance door, every drawer and every person uses the same strip of space, and the width of that strip governs the whole room.
Draw the doors, not just the boxes
A plan showing appliance outlines tells you nothing about the moment that matters. Draw each door at full swing on the same sheet: the oven falling forward, the dishwasher down, the refrigerator wide, the bin drawer out. Where two of them overlap, one has to move, and moving one on a drawing takes a minute. The usual answer is to put the dishwasher on the same run as the oven instead of facing it, or to shift it round a corner so the two swings never meet.
The lane has to hold a door and a person
A dropped oven door reaches a long way into a narrow room, and whoever is using it needs to stand in front of it. The measurement worth taking before any layout is fixed is the clear floor left between that open door and whatever faces it. Anything tighter than a comfortable standing position will be lived with and resented, and it is the same space a technician needs when the appliance has to come out.
Where the refrigerator door ends up
The other collision in a narrow kitchen is refrigeration hinged on the wrong side, sitting at the end of a run with its door opening into the lane rather than away from it. On most built-in units the hinge side is a choice made at order time and an awkward one to change later, so it belongs on the plan beside the door swings instead of being left to whoever delivers. Check it against the way people actually walk into the room.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- Every appliance door drawn at full swing on one plan, the bin drawer included
- The clear floor between an open oven door and the run facing it, measured rather than scaled
- The hinge side of the refrigeration, settled before the order and not on delivery day
- Which appliance has to come out first if the one behind it ever needs to
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Washington Park West kitchens
4.9/ 51,048 reviews
Ice production fell to nothing over two weeks. Denver water had scaled the fill tube solid and the inlet valve barely opened. Both replaced, line flushed.
Torben H.Cherry Creek
Display went dark halfway through a roast and the oven quit with it. A cooked solder joint on the power board, which he showed me under a light. Board swapped, and it has behaved since.
Katya P.Capitol Hill
Knob turned freely on the right front burner but no gas came through at all. A seized valve stem, and not the whole manifold I had braced myself for. Our 1912 kitchen is cramped and he worked around it without leaving a scratch.
Teague R.Washington Park
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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