15' front-to-back too shallow for Pantry Drawer??
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cat_mom
12 years ago
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Too many pantries? Too many narrow spaces?
Comments (23)Hey, Fori, the repair guy called! At a reasonable time, and I was already gone to meet the cabinet maker and contractor. We had a very productive session. I'll call Mr. G. tomorrow. Meantime, I'm going to post about the cool factor in Appliances. I got 2" of countertop on both sides because the cabinet maker was making pretty frames around the ovens and Advantium. Instead there will be 1" nice frames. The ladder is too tall for the right of the ovens, and I wan't still more counter, so that's going to be a tall pullout like Gizmonike's, only with trays for spices, etc. The little cupboard over the ovens is only going to be about 8" tall anyway, so will have a flip up door rather than swing doors. Should be good for oven pieces. He can do rails and stiles with the bamboo, so the stemware cupboards in the butler's pantry will have inset glass (probably pebble) in the uppers and glass shelves. I think this will cure the bamboo forest problem, because it'll draw the eye away from the slabs. The only view I was ready to go all out Gumby for was standing in the prep area of the island. That, and my mother's jazzy hardware. :) No gumby ;( Glass would be too heavy and unsafe. There will be a message center with an 8" deep flip down writing surface in the center of the pegboard cabinet (on the right from the pantry. We also hashed out a lot of drawer depths, etc., and things look good. I came away feeling very good about the whole thing. I even might have found a top for the island. BTW, sorry for going off on the dye. I'm a fiber artist with respiratory issues so I took that literally. :D RIT's a different story. ;)...See More15-inch deep shallow drawers in island?
Comments (11)you don't think it will look strange if the 2 ends don't match? Since that side of the island doesn't face an open space, I think you'll seldom see the whole side at once. Therefore, not matching is irrelevant. The countertop already won't match, and I think that will be far more visible, so I wouldn't worry at all about the underneath part not matching. I would suggest making the shallow drawer a little wider (same as the butcher block) and lose the other drawer completely. That way, you would scoot the stools down a bit and have some more roominess created by the overhang continuing around the corner. We have three stools in a 7.5' opening, and with elbows and legs, I can't imagine being truly comfortable with four stools and only six more inches. We have 18" deep drawers on our pantry wall, and we find them tremendously useful. I think 15" could be quite useful, too....See MoreConfiguration of drawers / cabinets / pantries for various things
Comments (33)I have a smaller kitchen so had room for only 2 drawer stacks: 24" and 36". The smaller drawers have the things like plastic storage, foil, Saran and bags, napkins, dishtowels, hand cream, canning jar lids etc. The lowest large 10" drawer has the pots and pans: I stack the lesser used large pans, and skillets, but there is room for the pots without stacking plus a few other odds and ends. The next 10" drawer up has the lids, baking and casserole dishes, mixing bowls and large measuring cups -- the lids and casserole/baking dishes are on their sides in holders. The top drawer is for utensils and silverware -- and is the only place that I think the drawer-in-drawer would be nice to have, so I could have the cooking utensils in one layer and the silverware in another. Lots of wasted space in that drawer. In the pantry I have drawers behind a door. I only made sure that one was spaced to allow for cereal and oatmeal boxes to be upright (and one shelf has my microwave). I could add another drawer or two by narrowing the space between drawers, and I may do so later....See MoreLooking for shallow (15" deep) cabinets for utility room!
Comments (1)IKEA makes some kitchen cabinets that are 15" deep along with BESTA cabinets that are 15" deep....See Morebabs711
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12 years agoThanks all -- I'm sold .. NO DRAWERS for the 15" deep section -- I'll go w/ shelves there and put the drawers in the small part of the L (the one w/ 24" front to back).
next question ... what about the Door Heights in front of the shelves? We have to have doors as the pantry is a thorough-fair between our family room and the kitchen .. so we can't just have all our food showing.
Our ceilings are 12' high ..but the walk-through is only 6 feet wide ..so anything too tall will look silly. We are planning to have about 8 feet of shelves (height wise) but not sure how to break that down in terms of how high to get each cabinet door...
So assume we have 90" of horizontal space and say around 8 feet high. Should we break that down into 3 x 30" wide cabinets each w/ 2 doors? If so ..how about the height of each cabinet? Should we have the base cabinet the normal counter height 34" or so and then the top cabinet really tall?
THESE are the cabinets we're REPLACING . it looks like a walk in now -- but we've broken down the wall on the right hand side and removed the door.
My question is when I basically rebuild those shelves on the LEFT .. and put doors in front of them ... I'll have Left to Right 3 sets of 30" wide cabinets. How do I configure them TOP TO BOTTOM ... do I have a 34" high base cabinet and then a 46" high upper? given the narrow space worried that a really tall upper will look weird.
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