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How much extra space should I leave around an oven or cooker?

Furniture Ferret: For your safety, ensure that when positioning an oven or cooker you follow all the safety regulations and instructions that come with the oven or cooker, including leaving venting areas and safety clearances. There must also be enough space left for cables and pipes. But from strictly a usability point of view, you require sufficient room in front of an oven or cooker to be able to open its door fully and use it. For this you would need 80 cm at minimum, so for a 45 cm deep oven or cooker you need 85 cm in total. Also consider that often you will need to open the door completely, to the side of the appliance, so placing an oven or cooker next to a wall or other obstruction may restrict your access.

What is the best way to measure the space to fit an oven or cooker in?

Furniture Ferret: Measure the width and the depth of the floor space where you'd like to put an oven or cooker. The most accurate way is to use a measuring tape. Hold the start of the tape down at the edge of the area, and let it run to the opposite edge. Make sure the tape is not diagonal, as otherwise you would overestimate the available space. If the distance is larger than what you can stretch to with your arms, ask a friend to help, or divide the distance up into multiple parts. This can be done by either holding the tape down partway through and continuing running it while letting the first end go, or by marking how far you have measured on the floor or wall, and reposition the tape to complete the measurement. If you want to avoid drawing on the floor, try putting down a pointy object like a screwdriver there instead. You should avoid dead places where the piece of furniture won't be able to go like decorative strips. Also it may be necessary to measure how high the space is wherever the ceiling is uneven.

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Can I order the 45cm deep ovens and cookers by price?

On every search page one can choose to sort the results by price (ascending or descending), or relevance. Click on the button just above the first result, after "Order by", to change how the results are ordered. Ordering by relevance will show the oven or cooker at the top that contains most of the keywords in the search, while ordering by price will show the cheapest or most expensive oven or cooker first. Set the ordering to "Price: low to high" to see the cheapest 45cm deep ovens and cookers on Furniture Ferret.

How to choose the best colour for an oven or cooker?

The two things to consider for everything colour is balance and associations. Balance means that the colours should ideally be coordinated, so that the room looks like a unit, and not just a random collection of elements. This can be achieved by using a colour wheel, and choosing colours that are either quite close to each other, or quite far. Other colour combinations are likely be somewhat jarring just based on how our eyes and brains understand colour. Associations with and emotions connected to colours are equally important, and there are many lists for these from those by 19th-century Impressionist painters to modern interior design guides. It is quite probable that these associations are cultural and learnt, which means that they can be very different for different people. The associations are even often contradictory, making it even more difficult to use them as a guide. Blue is often associated with productivity, but also stability, calmness and even sadness. Green is undoubtedly the colour of nature, and is considered to evoke safety, luck and envy (though in other cultures envy is yellow instead). Pink is considered to evoke kindness, nurturing, romance and calmness, while it was the masculine colour of choice for clothing over many decades. Red is considered to be the colour of friendship, willpower, leadership, desire and revenge - a very wide range of emotions. But it is clear that in nature, it means danger or importance, so you probably need to put it next to a neutral colour to allow the eye to rest. These emotions are so varied that these guidelines seem to boil down to just this: pause and see what the colour means for you.

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