Upper cabinet height (from ground) for petite cooks?
beantownrenovator
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Comments (6)The right hand door opens into the hood. The left hand door makes the cabinet hard to use from both sides of the peninsula. Consider reversing the door swings? I would encourage you to consider making the eating space counter height and move the prep sink into the corner. This is for a couple of reasons. I don't like how raised bars play out - they have access problems and they rob you of a big flat counter area when you need one. We had one and it was the first thing removed from the new kitchen. The prep sink move is to have some landing area for items from the refrigerator - right now, you either walk or put them IN the sink. Also, it puts it at the stool position that wouldn't get used anyway cause of the upper cabinet in face. In your case, I think the raised bar will make the kitchen look even smaller. Lastly, be sure of the order of ref, oven, pantry or the reverse or ref, pantry, oven or its reverse or... There can be a problem with the ref and oven opening into each other. I tend to place the ref close to where I think people will come from to get a drink....See MoreAny downside to hanging upper cabinets lower than 18'?
Comments (12)What they said. ^ I'd also say that it all depends on how many uppers you have and whether they form a solid bank around the perimeter of the entire space. If you're working with a kitchen designer, he can help ensure that your tops all work out the right way (staggered or even, depending on your planned look). My caveats, to be responsible about bucking the norm and why I did it: -- I have as much counter space without uppers as I do with, so I have plenty of room for freakishly tall appliances, should I ever need them. -- I cook a lot with very varied ingredients and tools and want things close at hand. -- My kitchen is fairly bright & sunny. I'm 5'8" or so and have never had a kitchen where I felt so comfortable working; friends who cook here tell me this all the time too. I think it's got a lot to do with the ease of these lowered uppers -- one of those small unnoticeable things like the tilt of a chair that you don't realize you'd been missing until you adjust it. I'll link a favorite article on kitchen ergonomics from Starcraft Builders, below: Here is a link that might be useful: mise-en-place: what we can learn from commercial kitchen design...See MoreLoves2Cook4Six- Question about your pot rack cabinet??
Comments (2)We needed more hardware than came with the shelf :) We purchased bolts long enough to go through the shelf and then through the "slit" of the pot rack where the hooks go. We used a washer to prevent the nut from falling back through the slit. Then we drilled holes aprox. 3" in from the edges along the long center of the shelf and bolted the pot rack to the shelf. We can adjust the height of the pot rack by adjusting the shelf height. Right now the bolts hold the pot rack so tightly to the shelf that the hooks cannot move. I need to loosen the bolts a wee bit and adjust the hooks better and then retighten them. In the picture below you can see the bolt between the first and second hook from the left....See MoreHood height is squashing my upper cabinet
Comments (9)I think you will be fine. Here's some info from a thread that I posted before my kitchen remodel and there are some replies referencing users over 6' tall that were fine with 30-32 inch hood clearances. [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/how-high-to-mount-a-24-inch-deep-36-inch-wide-hood-dsvw-vd~2672267[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/how-high-to-mount-a-24-inch-deep-36-inch-wide-hood-dsvw-vd~2672267) Also in this thread I posted the following picture of my hood mockup which was very useful in testing hood heights. I used two trestles that we had in our basement (30 inches tall) and a flattened wire rimmed laundry basket on top. It was easy to adjust by sticking books underneath the trestle legs....See MoreUser
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