deeper than standard upper cabinets, in your face?
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How deep are your lower and upper cabinets?
Comments (9)Mine are 24" lower and 13" upper. For me, deeper would just mean things would get lost back there (my deep corner cabinet is like that). You would be able to reach the back of the first shelf, but not the higher ones. One thing I would do if make the uppers lower than 18" from the counter. If I had it to do over I would make it so the upper just clears the KA mixer and coffee maker....See MoreMicrowave solution - deeper upper cabinet?
Comments (20)We did not have custom cabinets, but ordered Kraftmaid from Lowe's. We didn't want our often used microwave and toaster oven in view when not in use, so we had one of the uppers increased in depth to 18", and had an "appliance gargage" type cabinet made to slide in between upper and countertop increased to 18", also. We have lived in our kitchen for about 8 months now and I love this set-up! I worried about the cabinet doors being open when using these appliances, but our house is a quiet one, with just DH and me, so it has not been a problem at all. Also, for us, having the doors open like this reminds us to shut them when we are done using the appliances, so they aren't perpetually open like they were when we had the old style tambour door. It looks like you have a great spot to do this where you have planned. Or, maybe you just want the upper done, but I don't have a picture of how that would look....See MoreDeeper than standard upper cabinets...
Comments (22)my custom cabinet guy makes them slightly deeper than standard as his standard... mainly he does it to fit 12 inch plates. it is a nice. regarding custom the sky is the limit, both in possiblities and price. Some things are "cheap" to change, and some are not, and some have unintended consequences. we pulled the base cabinets out from teh wall on our fridge wall to about 28 or 30, I forget. its only 1 cabinet, we didn't make it bigger, we actually just spaced it out. you still have to move the corner cabinet over, making that run shorter. other things that we didn that were "custom" we have the fridge next to a pantry, A) the cover panel for the fridge comes out to the front of the fridge, whcih stock ones don't do. we also had the pantry made to come out to the front of the fridge, so its 30 inches deep. We also made it open from the side, so its 14inches, by 30, opening on the 30. what this did is save us from having a pull out pantry, which costs about $1K for a nice one for the pull out unit, and we see everything in the pantry as the shelves aren't deep, but are wide. Also, go with big crown... go big or go home... it costs more, but in the grand scheme generally not that much "more" than 3 inch on a whole kitchen. the function is definately one reason to go custom and a big reason, but the build up crown, to the ceiling cabinets is the more visable side of "custom"....See MoreStove Front Deeper than Cabinets?
Comments (15)Thank you everyone for your thoughts and comments. I think I knew deep down inside you're all right -- from a logical and practical perspective, you want the door to stick out from the cabinets! But when I see pictures like these from the Subzero-Wolf website, I keep thinking and hoping that someone can tell me they did this very thing and it was perfectly fine...! I will admit, it is more common to find a flush installation example than one where the stove is set back from the cabinet front. And a lot more common to find an example of the range door sticking out from the cabinets! But I have managed to find these examples on Houzz (all looking like they spent a lot of time thinking through the details), and I want to desperately believe that their gables have stayed beautifully white even with daily use of their ovens for years: So it looks like it's been done before, just not very frequently. I've posted questions on the Houzz examples I found, but those pictures were posted years ago and I am not sure if the designer/homeowner will respond. I'm hoping someone could come and tell me from their own experience how this has worked out over the years... And in response to your questions: @mama goose_gw nz60H: Gable is made from white painted maple. If I end up deciding to pull the range out, I will get my countertop fabricator to cut me an extra piece for the gap in the back :) Seems like the safest solution for sure, except I don't know if I want the range to stick out another 1-1/8" from the gables (1-1/8" is the thickness of the door), which sticks out 1" from the rest of the cabinets...! @dan1888: It's a bit too late to modifying the gables without a lot of delay and a lot of annoyance from everyone involved... :( Everyone will want to kill me, including my husband :) @friedajune and @M: It's funny that Wolf does not give any instruction about this in their installation manual! For example, I checked Thermador's installation manuals and they specify the maximum recess depth (thereby requiring the doors to stand further out than the cabinet fronts). In the picture with the damage, it looks like some excess heat came out of the third vent on the side of the door, where the metal is darkened. Wolf's door is solid on the sides and does not have any vents. In any event, I totally understand the physics of heat needing to escape from the oven when you open the door -- though I suppose most of it goes upwards and not sideways. The question remains, how much does it go sideways on a Wolf range, and is it enough to ruin white painted maple? Hmm... @Sophie Wheeler: That's actually not a picture of my stove. It's just an example I found to illustrate what I was talking about. I took a very close look at that picture, and they seemed to have made the gables out of stone (you can see some faint veining on the right side). If I could turn back time, I think I would have had my counter top fabricator make the gables for me out of a white quartz that matched my cabinets... But alas it is too late, unless I want to hold up construction for several weeks! And honestly speaking, I'm not sure if I have room in my budget for mitered quartz gables, though I am really loving the sound of that... :)...See Moreoldbat2be
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