Designer Help Desperately Needed - Floating Shelving Problem
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Desperately needing help on my kitchen design!
Comments (27)A couple of thoughts: I very much like moving the refrigerator to where the desk was. I'd swap the door location so that the fridge is at the end of the run by the cooktop. This will: give you landing space by the fridge, give you a longer run by the cooktop, put the fridge closer to the island for prep, and give you more space in the laundry room for either a bigger closet or a longer counter (for folding clothes) or some cubbies if that's also a mudroom. (In your current iteration, that space to the right of the door in the laundry room is unused.) Also you can add seating to your island in an L shape, so that people seated can talk to each other. (Not sure about dimensions for the breakfast area tho; you'll need to draw in a table to scale and see if the seating at the right side of the island has room.) In my mockup I didn't extend the seating to the top left, as you might use that space for landing space for the ovens on the counter, and tray storage / pot holders etc. below. Another thought: if you move the prep sink to the right you can have a trash pullout in the island. If it pulls open toward the DW, it will be handy for clean up and also accessible when prepping at the island. This post was edited by chicagoans on Fri, Jan 4, 13 at 10:14...See MoreNeed help to design 3 super susan shelves.
Comments (7)bemsue Darn, I bet your cabinets Tee into the corner, so you don't have an L-shaped opening, but a real ''blind'' corner with only 9.5'' opening and then a 20 x 20 something unreachable space on each shelf. Best I can think of would be to get plastic storage bins like Target sells and slide them in. You could probably fit two 10''w x 20''L x 8 or 9''h bins into each shelf's dead end. I think you could get them in if they are less than 9'' high. Then pull them out and use them for seasonal storage: Christmas dishes, Thanksgiving decorations, whatever. (I would use them in accessible part of the cabs also to make it easier to clear passage.) I have used some of the Target bins (picked most of 'em up for $1 each at our Goodwill) to make pull outs. I had to trim off part of the flanges, but they work fine. Here are pics. The spaces in this cabinet are only 15'' deep and 10 1/2'' wide. There is a little lost space to the sides and back, but not as much as there is around conventional drawers. Something like this might work for you: The ''drawers'' pushed all the way in: The top two ''drawers'' pulled partly out, the bottom pulled all the way out to show the trimmed off back edge. I could have cut off the sides, too, but didn't have to do so. Hopes this makes sense and helps a little. I bookmarked the site you posted. Thanks again....See MoreDesperately need help designing this Fireplace wall.
Comments (22)Those are great, CeleryGirl. I guess I am going to think about adding the wider window on the right only. The one that's there doesn't open and it's too close to the fireplace. Do you all think the window on the right should be the same height as the front window? Should I ignore the ceiling slope or should I incorporate some detail over the fireplace that goes straight up to the ceiling?...See MoreKitchen renovation (HELP) — Hidden mounts for stone floating shelves
Comments (17)@Alex Kelsey Wanted to let you know how things are going for us, since it seems we are a little further along than you are. Talked to our contractor about what your contractor said, and he said it wouldn't have worked for us anyway because it's on an outside wall, which is load bearing. So it was a good thing we put in the brackets, attached to the studs. Talked to the fabricator today, and he is finally willing to embed our brackets into the stone, so that you only see the 3 cm edge, nothing thicker. It took some convincing, but he was willing to do it! After advice from Joseph Corlett, I told our fabricator that we didn't plan on putting heavy dishes on our shelf (which is true, since we plan on putting a few decorative things but keeping it mostly spare) and so even if it weakens the stone, it won't be used like a countertop. He finally said ok, as long as we don't plan on using it for dish storage. It gave me confidence to push for it since Joseph said it was possible. I asked our fabricator if he would have been willing to do the same thing in soap stone if he knew nothing heavy was going on the shelves, and he said yes. So hopefully this info helps you! Maybe you can install the steel brackets (we got ours from the original granite brackets company online) after talking to your fabricator about embedding it in the stone, if you don't plan on putting heavy items on your shelf....See Moreeaw 513
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