When I was first choosing a fan I kept finding standalone ones.
I don't know if we discussed this, but upper kitchen cabinets are out of style. That doesn't make any sense against a wall, but fashion never makes sense.
Someone ripped out the cabinets between my grandparents' old kitchen and their living room, which is great for talking with people in the other room without contorting oneself, but where shall you keep your cheese?!
Word on the street is this is all well and good if you have a pantry, but would you rather walk back and forth to what is, in effect, another room, than simply opening cabinets at eye level?
What if you don't have a pantry?
Shall we knock out the corner of my brother's bedroom in order to put in one?
It just happens to be where he has his bed, but we can move that, or perhaps cut out a significant corner.
It would be a rare pantry with a window!
How fancy!
It would reduce the storage area and undoubtedly make it worse for the food we can fit in there, but we would feel special!
Or at least my brother would until he retires to his windowless room and attempts to sleep on the L-shaped remainder of his bed!
I had thought that everywhere I lived had a range hood that vented through an upper cabinet. There is less room in that cabinet, but Mom always stored cookbooks and stuff there.
It is still good for something.
It wasn't until I removed the old one that I realized it simply doesn't vent.
The silly thing merely recirculates and filters air.
When the pandemic first started I bought an air filter and figured that I would duct-tape it to my box fan if I got sick.
If there was a delay repairing or replacing Mom's range hood I could get my box fan out of storage, although I don't know that we need to catch viruses, so perhaps I would purchase a filter that would allow more airflow.