Two options to price, A (layout v0.1.16) and B (layout v0.2.3). They share the cabinet style, the sink run, the pantry, the corner and the island. They differ on the cooktop wall and in the tall cabinet beside the pantry. Part 1 lists what we want included whichever option we pick; part 2 lists the questions and decisions to settle. Tap a line to tick it off as you go; the ticks are not saved.

A · Cooktop + wall oven with a speed oven above

Layout v0.1.16. Click any picture to enlarge.

• ✓36 in induction cooktop (Bosch NIT8661UC, or the 30 in NIT8061UC) over a DB36 VTD base: two deep pot drawers, voided top drawer (room for a shallow custom drawer, see 7).
• ✓Tall OVD3396 AS BUTT 1DDWR holding a 30 in Bosch HMC80252UC speed oven over a 30 in Bosch HBL8454UC wall oven (two cutouts), one large drawer under them, doors to the ceiling.
• ✓Fridge stays as far north as it goes.

Option A layout and part numbers (Waypoint SKUs).

B · Slide-in range + built-in microwave

Layout v0.2.3. Click any picture to enlarge.

• ✓30 in slide-in induction range with its own oven and storage drawer. No cooktop base, no wall oven.
• ✓Tall OVS3396 AS BUTT beside the pantry: two lower doors with three SSK30 sliding shelves, a 30 in built-in microwave with trim kit at counter height (sill about 36 in), an internal drawer on the shelf above it, doors to the ceiling. The microwave opening is not stock: the dealer sizes it to the chosen microwave's trim kit.
• ✓The fridge moves 6 in south to meet the pull-outs, which leaves about 7½ in of wall before the laundry doorway (see 6).

Option B layout and part numbers (Waypoint SKUs).

Appliances: Bosch 800 Series (we buy these)

We are buying the appliances ourselves. Please include in your quote building the openings and cutouts for them, running the circuits and hooking up the water and drain, and installing them. Bosch says to cut from the installation instructions, not the spec sheets.
Bosch pages: NIT8661UC (spec sheet) · NIT8061UC (spec sheet) · HBL8454UC (spec sheet) · HMC80252UC (spec sheet) · SHV78DM3N (spec sheet) · B36FD10ENS (spec sheet) · B36FD52SNS (spec sheet)

Counters and backsplash

• ✓Quartz counters, white with some texture/veining, the same slab on every run and the island.
• ✓1½ in overhang on every exposed counter edge, with a drip groove routed under the front edge so spills drip off before they run back onto the cabinet faces and drawer tops.
• ✓Tile backsplash (3 × 6 in subway as drawn) from the counter to the bottom of the wall cabinets on every run, including up behind the sink and behind the hood. Quartz and an open cooktop wall are upgrades (see Upgrades).
• ✓Single large sink bowl, no divider, with a tall arched faucet.

Cabinets and hardware

• ✓Drawers instead of doors on the base cabinets. Doors only on the wall cabinets, the pantry and the tall cabinet, the corner and the sink base.
• ✓Full-width roll-out tray on the floor of the sink base (notched or U-shaped around the drain if needed).
• ✓Soft-close on every door, drawer and pull-out, including the trash and the corner hardware.
• ✓Wall cabinets and tall cabinets run to the 96 in ceiling: no dust shelf on top, scribe fillers where they meet the walls.
• ✓580F finished panels on the island only (island ends), and dummy drawer fronts on the blank island faces so the island reads as drawers all the way round. Every other exposed side (corner blank, fridge return, tower side, pantry side) stays the plain finished cabinet side, no applied panel.
• ✓Dishwasher panel: a 580F panel in the base cabinet finish on the panel-ready dishwasher, made to Bosch's panel template, so the sink run reads as cabinets. Paint and seal all edges and the back (steam and drips at the bottom edge), and set the door springs to the panel's weight.
• ✓3 in brushed gold tab pulls, thin flat-leaf type on top drawers so they clear the counter overhang.
• ✓Coffee corner behind the table (north-east corner, beside the sunroom slider): a B15 RD-12 (drawer over door, Reduced Depth to 12 in) and a W1530 above it, both set at 45° across the corner with CAM8 angle molding and scribed fillers to the walls. About 19 in of each wall, so it clears the slider trim (23 in from the corner). Quartz top cut to the corner at 36 in, 1 in past the front and the ends, tile backsplash up to the upper (54 to 84 in). See the coffee corner study.
• ✓Pantry with adjustable-height roll-outs in the lower section, plus an internal drawer in the upper section (how, see 2).

Lighting, outlets and controls

• ✓Color LED tape under the wall cabinets: RGBW (color plus a true white channel), built in (in a channel or behind a light rail so you see light, not dots), dimmable, with its driver and controller somewhere accessible, wired to the lighting controls. The hood's own lights cover the cooktop.
• ✓Hidden outlets under the wall cabinets: receptacle strips mounted under the uppers, including the coffee corner, so the backsplash has no outlet cutouts.
• ✓Layered lighting on separate dimmable circuits: recessed ceiling cans, pendants over the island, a fixture over the table mounted so it can move if the table or its parking spot changes, plus the under-cabinet tape.
• ✓Relay-controlled lighting: surface-mount buttons on the cabinet sides and a home-automation tablet in a standard wall box on the pantry's exposed side (exact spot, see the decisions below).
• ✓Island pop-up outlet: one GFCI pop-up in the island quartz, with a quartz insert in its cap cut from the counter slab so it blends in, in the middle of the island, over the seam between the two DB27 RD-18 banks just past the trash cabinet, so it clears the drawers.
• ✓Coffee corner outlet: hidden under the W1530 like the others, sized for an electric kettle (about 1500 W), its own 20 A circuit or a lightly loaded one.
• ✓Old switches removed: the switch boxes and 3-way switches on the wall the pantry covers are taken out and spliced in an accessible box, not buried.
• ✓Circuits: dedicated circuits for the cooking package, dishwasher, microwave and fridge; at least two 20 A GFCI countertop circuits for the hidden strips and the island pop-up; the hood and the under-cabinet lighting on their own. Option A with the Bosch package: cooktop 40 A (30 A for the 30 in), wall oven 30 A, speed oven 16 A, all 240 V hard-wired; dishwasher 120 V.

Cooking, ventilation and plumbing

• ✓Induction cooking: 36 in Bosch cooktop for A, 30 in slide-in range for B (models in the appliance table above).
• ✓Waypoint Modern Box hood between the wall cabinets and finished to match them: RH4242 MB (42 in) in A, since the cooktop glass is 37 in wide; RH3642 MB (36 in) in B. Bottom 30 in over the cooking surface (Bosch's minimum for the cooktop). Ducted outside on the west wall, with an RHVENT 400 blower (400 CFM, LED lights) or a quieter insert. Staying at or under 400 CFM avoids any makeup-air question.
• ✓Dishwasher right beside the sink (Bosch SHV78DM3N, panel-ready); sink and plumbing stay where they are.

Upgrades: price each on its own

The base bid is what's drawn: tile backsplash, wall cabinets around the Waypoint hood. Please price these as add-ons. Upgrades 2 to 4 open up the cooktop wall: the two wall cabinets beside the hood come out, as in layout v0.1.15 (shown there with quartz to the ceiling and a brass hood).

• ✓Upgrade 1: quartz backsplash matching the counters instead of tile, every run: +$____
• ✓Upgrade 2: decorative tile above the backsplash on the open cooktop wall, to the ceiling (over whichever backsplash we pick): +$____
• ✓Upgrade 3: quartz all the way up the open cooktop wall, around the hood: +$____
• ✓Upgrade 4: decorative tile all the way up the open cooktop wall, counter to ceiling, instead of the backsplash there: +$____
• ✓Anything else expensive: please flag anything on this list that would come out prohibitively expensive, with a cost breakdown, so we can drop or swap it.

Option A or B: price both ways

• ✓Cooking package A vs B (appliances not included, we buy them): the cabinet difference (DB36 VTD + OVD3396 1DDWR vs OVS3396 4-door + three SSK30 + microwave trim kit), and the electrical difference (cooktop and wall-oven circuits vs one range circuit plus a microwave circuit).
• ✓Corner hardware (see 1): LeMans vs a door-mounted pull-out vs a hinged-door blind-corner pull-out.
• ✓Pantry and tower interiors (see 2): adjustable pilaster roll-outs vs Waypoint sliding shelves.
• ✓Add-ons: toe-kick drawer(s), custom void drawer (A only), drawer microwave, stacked upper cabinets with a deeper top row (the "Stacked uppers" study).

Our questions

• ✓1LeMans in the corner: price to buy and install.
  • Corner is a BLB45/48 FH with a 21 in full-height door (17¾ in opening, about 43½ in inside, 22½ in deep). The Kessebohmer/Häfele LeMans II face-frame table: Model 50 (18 in trays) needs exactly a 17¾ in opening, Model 45 (15 in trays) fits with margin, Model 60 does not fit. 55 lb per tray.
  • LeMans needs a plain hinged door. The plan shows the door mounted on a pull-out frame (Vauth-Sagel Cornerstone Maxx or Kessebohmer Magic Corner I), so price both. Blind side is south: swings-left set, door hinged on the cooktop side.
  • Fallback: hinged door with the Hardware Resources SWS-BCFH15.
• ✓2Adjustable drawer rails vs Waypoint's fixed sliding shelves.
  • Drawn now: UT2424 X 96 ordered plain, with Century X-Series pilaster rails and four clip-in roll-outs in the lower section, heights changeable later (bottom bay 17 in for the Instant Pot and food processor).
  • Waypoint routes: UT2424 X 96 4SSK (four factory-installed sliding shelves) or SSK kits placed at install. Price each, and ask who supplies the pilaster system.
  • Same question for option B's tower (three SSK30 under the microwave), and for the internal drawers in the pantry's upper section and above the microwave: what product, and how they are priced.
• ✓3Trash pull-outs at the island end: Waypoint's or third-party?
  • Drawn: BWBB21-2 FH (two 50 qt bins on one pull-out) + BWBB15 FH (one 50 qt bin), 36 in total. 50 qt is 12½ gal, the size 13 gal kitchen bags fit.
  • Waypoint's spec: full-extension glides rated 100 lb, wood frame, silver plastic bins. Ask whether they are soft-close and what the "SOL KIT" and "OL KIT" items next to them in the price book are.
  • If not soft-close, compare third-party kits in plain door bases (Rev-A-Shelf, simplehuman, Häfele, Kessebohmer): soft-close, lids, steel vs plastic bins, bottom-mount vs door-mount.
  • No Reduced Depth option on Waypoint wastebaskets; a shallower trash end would mean a plain full-height base with RD plus an aftermarket pull-out and smaller bins.
• ✓4Waypoint hood (RH4242 MB in A, RH3642 MB in B). Set between the wall cabinets with its side moldings left off, trimmed to about 29 in tall so its bottom is 30 in over the cooktop. Confirm the trim, the range's own hood clearance for B, and which blower fits our duct run.
• ✓5Quartz upgrades (1 and 3): slab count. How many slabs each takes, and how the veining lines up across seams.
• ✓6Toe-kick drawers: worth it? Step stool storage.
  • The kick is about 4 in tall, so a kick drawer holds things under about 3 in. The slim aluminium 2-step we looked at folds to 1¾ × 19¼ × 33¾ in.
  • Best spot for it: under the 45 in blind corner box. Not under the sink, dishwasher or range. On the island the 51 in side spans two boxes, which would make it custom.
  • Option B alternative: a narrow slot or pull-out in the 7½ in of wall left beside the fridge (a plastic 2-step folds to about 3¾ in thick). Option A has no room there.
  • Ask the price of one kick drawer and what kit they use.
• ✓7Custom shallow drawer under the cooktop (option A only).
  • The DB36 VTD leaves 7⅝ in clear under the counter. Whether a drawer fits depends on the cooktop's "top of a drawer below" rule: Bosch 800 NIT8060UC 3¾ in (a box about 2¾ in tall fits; the NIT8661UC lists a 4⅛ in cutout depth, so check its rule), Fisher & Paykel 4⅛ in, JennAir 5⅛ to 5½ in, GE Profile / Café 5⅞ in (no drawer), Wolf 6 to 6½ in.
  • Pick the cooktop first. Custom box makers: Eagle Woodworking, QuikDrawers, drawer.com. Option B's range has its own drawer instead.
• ✓8Refrigerator return panel: 28 in deep, so the fridge doors open fully.
  • The fridge is a standard-depth Bosch French door: 28⅜ in deep without doors, 33⅛ in with handles, plus 1 in of spacers behind it. Its doors swing out about 1¾ in past the sides of the case, and Bosch says they must open to 90° for the drawers to pull out.
  • A full 32 in return (RR96 X 32DP) would stand in front of the door hinges and stop the left door short of 90°. Drawn: the 32 in return cut down to 28 in (Reduced Depth), so it ends behind the doors. Ask whether Reduced Depth is offered on the 32 in return; if not, the 24 in RR96 also clears (the fridge case then shows about 5 in past it).
  • The W3724 X 24DP over the fridge is pulled 4 in forward on blocking, flush with the return. It sits 72 in off the floor, which leaves about 1⅜ in over the fridge on its feet (Bosch asks for ½ in).
  • Fridge aisle: about 31 in from the handles to the island with the doors shut.
• ✓9Drawer microwave: how to settle it.
  • Try working ones in a showroom (Sharp, Bosch, GE Profile, Café, KitchenAid, Wolf and Thermador make them): a full mug, a bowl of soup, a dinner plate, cleaning.
  • Option B already puts the microwave at counter height (sill about 36 in), the same as a countertop microwave today; A puts it at about 44 in. For a week at home, use the current microwave on the counter, then on a sturdy low stool to mimic a drawer.
  • A drawer microwave needs a full-depth 24 or 30 in base, so it cannot go in the 18 in deep island banks; it would take a perimeter base.
• ✓10Double drawers with Waypoint: how do you like to do them?
  • What we mean: one tall drawer front, with a shallow drawer or tray for utensils behind its top edge that slides on its own, and the deep drawer below still holding pots or containers.
  • Waypoint's 2025 brochure shows a Wood Tiered Cutlery Divider, an upper tray that slides back over a lower level in the same drawer. It is not in the spec guide we have (C1951), so ask for the current SKU, which drawer widths and heights take it, and whether it is factory installed.
  • Check it fits: Waypoint's cutlery and spice drawer kits are "not sized to fit cabinets with Reduced Depth Option", which would rule out the 18 in deep island drawer banks unless the tiered one is different.
  • Waypoint drawers run on side-mounted glides. A tray at the top of a deep drawer is easier to use if the drawer comes all the way out: ask whether full-extension glides are an option on these drawers.
  • If Waypoint has nothing that works: a third-party two-tier insert (Rev-A-Shelf makes wood two-tier cutlery drawers, some replacing the whole drawer box), or a true inner drawer on its own slides fixed to the cabinet sides. With a face frame the inner drawer has to be narrower than the opening, so ask how much width it loses and who builds it.
  • Ask which way they recommend, and price it on one drawer so we can decide where to use it.
• ✓11All-plywood construction: price it.
  • As we understand it, the standard Waypoint box has ½ in plywood sides with furniture board (particleboard) tops, bottoms and backs. The all-plywood option makes those plywood too, with ¾ in plywood shelves. A third-party review put it at about a 10% upcharge; we haven't seen it in Waypoint's own material.
  • What is the upcharge on this order, as a percentage or in dollars, and does it add to the lead time?
  • Can it be ordered on single cabinets, or only on the whole order? The sink base matters most (a slow leak swells a particleboard floor), then the cabinets on either side of the dishwasher.
  • If it is whole-order only and about 10%, we will probably take it; if it can go on single cabinets, at least the sink base.
• ✓12Spice drawers beside the cooking: DB18 4DWR with SDIAK18 inserts. Replaces the BPPUS9 and BPP9 pull-outs. SDIAK18 inserts in the three standard drawers; the large bottom drawer stays plain. Confirm the insert fits the 4-drawer box.

Other decisions

• ✓Tablet vs the pantry drawer. The tablet's wall box would reach into the pantry's internal drawer zone (about 55 to 60½ in off the floor). Choose: mount it just above (box bottom about 61 in), narrow the drawer about 3 in with a spacer, or drop that drawer. A PoE tablet needs only a mounting ring and a network cable. Keep the box at least 3 in back from the pantry's front edge.
• ✓Island outlets: does the pop-up meet code on its own? Which model, and does its body clear the drawer boxes?
• ✓Sink: settled. Undermount single bowl in the SB39. The apron-front/farmhouse sink idea (including the freestanding cast-iron one) is shelved, so there is no apron sink base or sink front to price.
• ✓Dishwasher pull: the dishwasher door is spring-loaded and heavier to open than a drawer. A 3 in tab like the drawers, or a longer pull on this one panel?
• ✓Hood: duct route and the blower model, sized for induction.

Confirm with the dealer

• ✓SDIAK18 spice inserts, factory installed in the three standard drawers of the DB18 4DWR: confirm they fit the 4-drawer box.
• ✓580F: the finishes it comes in and the specialty-door upcharge (colors not chosen yet).
• ✓Brushed gold 3 in tabs (picked from Waypoint's hardware options): confirm the top-drawer tabs clear the 1½ in counter overhang.
• ✓Panels: 580F island end panels and dummy drawer fronts (DDF + DDF FASTENER) on the blank island faces only; no matching panels on the corner blank, the fridge return or the tower side (plain finished sides there).
• ✓Reduced Depth on the island DB27 RD-18 banks costs 20% over list.
• ✓Dishwasher panel: Waypoint's spec guide lists a Dishwasher Return panel but no dishwasher door panel. How do they supply a 580F panel sized to the Bosch SHV78DM3N template (a loose door or appliance panel), what does it weigh, and is it finished on the back?
• ✓Refrigerator return: RR96 X 32DP with Reduced Depth to 28 in (see 8), or the 24 in RR96.
• ✓Option A: size the OVD3396 openings for the Bosch HBL8454UC oven with the HMC80252UC speed oven flush above it, from Bosch's installation instructions, and settle the heights (the drawer under the oven sets how high the speed oven ends up).
• ✓Option B: who sizes the non-stock microwave opening in the OVS3396, and when the microwave model has to be chosen.

To measure

• ✓The north window's sill height (not measured yet).
• ✓Check the room dimensions against the plan.