Three or four drawers in lower cab? Drawer heights?
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Comments (11)We have a small kitchen with two inside corners, and were limited on drawer widths by some of our other choices. We didn't really think ahead of time about what would go in each drawer -- we were more focused on getting rid of our fixed-shelf framed blind corners. So we have been working on this in the last week as we are moving back into the kitchen. We have two 18" drawers -- one for silverware, and one for dishtowels and sponges (just to the side of the sink.) They work well. We have one stack of four drawers 15" wide (three small drawers and one deeper one on the bottom). We are using the top drawer for knives. The next two hold cooking implements, and we had to really work to find dividers that would hold our various tools. We have to be careful not to stack stuff too high inside the shallow drawers. For instance, we use a set of 5 Oxo metal measuring cups, and we can't put all 5 in a stack and still close a small drawer. The bottom, deeper drawer has been designated by my daughter as "her drawer". She has all kinds of kid cooking accessories such as placemats, tiny baking pans, teeny tiny ramekins, apron, etc. (She's a chef in training!) As far as she's concerned, it's not big enough, but I'm fine with it. We have one stack of three drawers 12" wide (one small, two big). The top is for coupons (we'll see if seriously downsizing the "junk" drawer keeps it from overflowing!), the middle is a bread drawer, and the bottom is for onions and potatoes. So far so good. Baggies are going in the rollout shelves in the pantry. I still have too many boxes and run into problems fitting them together! Hope this helps... Good luck with your decision making....See MoreShow me your 4-drawer cab stacks, please
Comments (10)Main one in the cooking aisle is 33" wide and 6/6/6/12. Holds dinner cutlery (since I plate our meals at the stove), spatulas and various other cooking doodads, pans, pots: The ones at our coffee station are a 36" stack on the rhs with extra set of cutlery for DH to do his coffee, cereal, etc, DH junk drawer, and then various somewhat more organized stuff below (string, elastic bands, clips, and the like) and then I use the bottom one for occasional-use serving bowls. The stack on the lhs is only 12" wide and is 6/9/7.5/7.5. I wanted it to line up with the sink drawer to the right (hence 6" top drawer) and fridge drawers to the left (hence 9" second drawer). The 9" turned out to be one of my favorite drawers in the kitchen. It's deep enough to hold hubby's medicine and vitamin bottles which used to be a mess on our old desk that drove me batty. For some reason he lacks that thing in most people's brains that says to put the lid back on bottles after you use them. :-) Anyway, now I can just shut the drawer and marital harmony plus my sanity reigns on, lol....See MoreInput on two choices for drawer depths?
Comments (2)Those sound like the heights of the drawer fronts, not the interior usable height. Most likely, the usable height is quite a bit less than the heights your GC gave you. The usable height inside the drawer will depend on your drawer slide hardware, your cabinet box style (framed, frameless or inset), and maybe other factors. In my frameless cabs, the drawer front on the top row is 6.5 inches with an interior height (from the bottom of the drawer to the cabinet box) is 4 inches. The 2nd and 3rd rows in my 3 drawer stacks have 11.75 inch drawer fronts with 9 inches interior height. Those heights are all approximate, but are within a quarter inch. I'd ask your GC what the interior heights will be. Then you can plan what to put where. I know there was a similar thread on the interior height of the top drawer recently, but my search didn't pull it up. Here is another one that might help. Here is a link that might be useful: Three or four drawers in lower cab? Drawer heights?...See MoreThree v. Four Drawer Stacks for Dish Drawers
Comments (16)A 24” framed drawer stack is too small in width to be a good dish storage cabinet. The interior space of the drawer will be around 18”-19”, depending on hardware choice. In frameless, you get more like 21”, depending on drawer material choice. The most used dish in any kitchen is the dinner plate, at 11” round. That leaves right at 6”- 10” for either bread plates, or glasses, or cups. If glasses and cups is your choice, as they are actually used more than the plates, then the 24” drawer is significantly undersized. You don’t stack glasses and cups. That means having a much wider heavy duty drawer to combine both those and plates, or another drawer, with glasses and cups in the top drawer. That’s at least a 10” drawer, and it won’t align with the standard 6” top drawers of most cabinets, breaking the line around the kitchen. There are ways of doing this, but there are going to be trade offs on function vs aesthetics....See MoreRelated Professionals
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