Integrated kitchen appliances or not?

With Coronavirus sneaking up on us I think a dishwasher is a must, or asbestos hands and very thick Marigolds. Plus you only need to operate it once a day. There are only 2 of us....

Re dishwashers, in her mid 70s my widowed mother moved from a house with a dishwasher, to a smaller one without. She promptly had a kitchen cupboard removed and a slimline DW installed.
‘As if I’m going to start washing up again! I’ve done more than enough of that in the past!’

Even if I lived alone I'd still have a dishwasher fitted.

We have two integrated ovens. We went for a stand lone dishwasher, larder fridge and a chest freezer.

CharlieGirl5 is spot on.
A friend of mine had a nightmare of a time replacing/repairing white goods.

I do live alone and have a slimline dishwasher. Washing up? What’s that?

I prefer to have all the appliances integrated, it gives the kitchen a far more streamlined appearance imo. Of course not everyone wants that look it's very much an individual choice, we were talked into it by the kitchen people when we had ours done about 4 years ago, but in retrospect I don't regret it. Sometimes when I'm on Right Move and see a fairly new kitchen where appliances such as an American style fridge are stand alone that would not be my choice, I know loads of people love them but they look like a big solid silver mass, I just don't like that. I don't have my washing machine, tumble dryer or freezer in my kitchen they are all in the garage, so the only integrated appliances, apart from built in cooker and microwave, and yes it's great not have the latter taking up work surface space, are a fairly large fridge and dishwasher. They are more expensive to replace than conventional appliances as they have to be tailored to fit the cupboard doors, touch wood they have plenty of life left it them.

Forget to mention hob, thoroughly recommend induction type hob, quick to heat up and easy to clean. Downside you may have to replace saucepans as not all are compatible with inductions.

Integrated appliances look neater but I recently decided to dis/unintegrate mine.
All-white gloss kitchen was fine but was a bit boring. Final decision was made when I just couldn't source a slimline dishwasher compatible with the the door!
Now very happy with the contrasting black free-standing washing machine, dishwasher and fridge freezer.
Wouldn't go back to an integrated kitchen.

JuliaM, we are thinking of going with one of the white gloss collections but there is just so much choice. We were at the store having the design done today so plenty to think about!

kittylester, you make a fair point and given some of the comments made we are probably being really old fashioned/stuck in our ways . Maybe time to modernise.

Thanks all for your thoughts. It's great to be able to come on here and get other peoples views.