Pics and dimensions of stacked cabs w/ less than 9 foot ceilings

12 years ago

HI all,

I am a lurker slowly turning poster. Currently renovating our home and borrowing katieob's kitchen from a couple of years ago as my inspiration. Going w/ stacked inset cabinets, but my ceiling height is only 101 inches. I just got the design back from my cabinet maker and he plans 10 1/2 inch inset doors for the upper level and 28 and 1/2 inch doors for the lower cabinets on the upper level. There will be 1 and 1/2 inches of trim at the top, btw. the stacked uppers,and at the base of the uppers for a total of 4 and 1/2 inches of trim. I have around 43 and 1/2 inches of room to play w/from the bottom of the upper cabinets to the crown (planning for 3 and 5/8 inch crown which is all we can afford w/ the low ceiling height)

I had initially hoped the top cabinet door would be at least 12 inches. My cabinet maker says he could take another 1 to 1 1/2 inches from the larger lower cabinets to achieve this (making a 27 inch door below w/ 12 inch above) but I am the first to admit I have no idea what I am doing! (my main worry is that the 10.5 inch door will make the upper portion of the stacked cabs look too small but as my cabinet guy says it does look porportional on the CAD) Trying to upload images of the design w/ dimensions to photobucket, but having trouble w/ that - waiting on advice from them, so will do it as soon as i can.

Any help, advice,and most importantly dimensions or pics of stacked cabs with 8 and 1/2 foot ceilings would be greatly appreciated!

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nycbluedevil
12 years ago
Cocokey

Have you considered that having stacked cabinets is likely to add a lot to your costs? Also, a 10" cabinet might look awkward because it will be wider than it is high.

I am in your situation as well. My ceiling (up to the crown) is about 102 inches. I am going to go with one tall cabinet. They do tall ones up to 48" and they look fine.
CEFreeman
12 years ago
I have 8' ceilings and have made my own stacked cabinets.
I took 42" cabs and put a rail where 30" would end at the top, on a regular cabinet.

I put 30" doors on the bottom and 12" doors on the top. Voila! Stacked cabinets.

My evil plan is to someday buy (or make -- I haven't given up) beaded inset face frames. I'll make the frame the entire 42" tall, with the dividing rail.

On another wall, I just found 12" tall cabinets at the reuse center and stuck 'em up there. They fit beautifully and will be stacked when I'm dong painting, etc. Again, with future beaded face frames, it'll be the entire 42" tall.

I've heard people here say that under 9' ceilings the stacked cabinets look bad, or something. Can't remember what, but that was the gist of it.

I think it looks great. I love the glass doors I found for the uppers, so to me it looks airy with the white cabinet insides showing.

I am putting only scribe molding on the top because there isn't room for fancy molding. I don't mind, though. I'm very traditional but simple and clean. I'd ask him for a mock-up or where he's installed them before. Proportion does make a huge difference.
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blfenton
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No pics but I have 8' ceilings with stacked shaker-style cabinets. The bottom one is 24" and the top one is 12" and they have separate doors. The top one has glass inserts. They are not all stacked just the center ones on either side of the range.

Yes some people say that they look silly but I think they look fine. I can't reach the top shelf anyway which makes them useless for storing things and I don't need the storage space. So the cabinets are lit and I show off some of my glass ware and pottery in them.
angie_diy
12 years ago
I have 101" ceilings. I went for a faux-stacked look. I used a 43" box and had them put a fixed shelf at the 27" / 16" mark (i.e., 27" lower and 16" upper, less the thickness of the shelf). I chose these based on the golden mean (or roughly the rule of thirds). I have two separate doors.

Here is a elevation:

Pics and dimensions of stacked cabs w/ less than 9 foot ceilings

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