Advice on minimal and integrated appliances for new kitchen

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Hi

First post here, wish we’d found the site sooner as almost ready to order things but here goes:

My girlfriend is putting together a new kitchen in a house which is hopefully going to be used for holiday lets. It’s a small kitchen with a minimal, integrated feel. She is stretching her finances pretty thin to get this thing off the ground though so we can’t afford Miele everywhere. She needs:

Integrated single oven
Integrated under-counter fridge with icebox
Integrated dishwasher (full size)
Electric hob (ceramic with knobs not touch control)
Chimney Hood, ideally the very boxy,minimal style with no glass. wall-mounted.

We have planned the dishwasher to go under the sink drainer and the builder is concerned that if the DW fixings go up into the worktop he will have nothing to go into if the drainer cutout is there. Magnet who are supplying the units say it won’t be a problem but then I don’t know if we dare buy a dishwasher outside of magnet (mostly AEG, Zanussi, Electrolux and a few whirlpool). I guess the dishwasher is probably the one thing we should invest in most heavily if its for holiday lets (?) but does anyone here know more about this fixing issue?

Going all with magnet it would be

Extractor Hood: Zanussi ZHC6244X
Hob: ELECTROLUX EHF6140FOK
Fridge: Zanussi ZQA12430DA
Int. Dishwasher: AEG F34030Vi0
Oven: Zanussi ZOP37902XK

Are there better alternatives for a similar (or only slightly higher) budget? I think this lot would come to about £1500. John Lewis do a Neff oven for the same price as this Zanussi, for example.

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