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Anyone with a 36 inch wide double cabinet with 8' ceilings?

15 years ago

Our designer did 36" double cabinets on each side of our kitchen sink. We are wondering if it will look funny as they will only be 36" high. Anyone w/similar size cabs and pics?

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redroze
15 years ago
I do!!!

We have 8' ceiling and the double upper cabs on either side of our range hood are 36" wide and 36" high. I think they look really good. We're getting our range hood cover cut and raised about 5" as it looks too low. Our range hood is 42" wide.

{{!gwi}}
pluckymama
Original Author
15 years ago
redroze, you just saved the day. They look fine. Whew!! I worried over nothing :)
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Chris, it is possible that Natal doesn't have 18" of space between the uppers and the counter. Also, I tried to estimate the size of the crown based on the proportions in the picture. It's difficult to do accurately because of perspective, but I picked the front corner of the back cabinet run where that comes into play less and it looks to me like the molding is closer to 3.5" rather than 5". Aries, one thing to be careful of is how level your floor and ceiling are - do you really have 96" everywhere? We thought that we did, but it turned out that there is a slightly high spot in our floor and, as luck would have it, it was right where the dishwasher was. If it was anywhere else, we could have just let them install the cabinet base a bit shorter so that the low spot was 35" above the floor instead of 36". To leave space for the dishwasher, we had to have the counter 36" high there. We had planned on 41" cabinets (a standard size for our brand which is really based on a metric increment) with a minimal molding - just a straight 1" that could be scribed for any ceiling variation. Our design is contemporary/transitional in an MCM house so minimal molding went with the rest. We have a fair sized kitchen, but we keep kosher which means having 2 of most things (milk and meat) and 3 of some (neutral) so we needed whatever space we could get. The cabinets were already here when we discovered the floor issue. Fortunately, our ceiling quite flat so we reduced the molding to 1/2". We have 17.5" between the cabinet bottom and the counter, but that doesn't count the light bar. On one cabinet, we ended the light bar before the end of the cabinet to allow height for the mixer. We are content with the result, but if I'd known ahead of time, I'd have ordered custom height for the cabinet over the baking center (which sits by itself) to give an inch more height for the mixer. The moral of the story: If the height budget is tight, measure to make sure you really have 96" everywhere before counting on it.
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redroze
15 years ago
Anytime pluckymama =)
redroze
15 years ago
Wait, plucky!!! I just went downstairs and measured to be sure. It seems that they tweaked it a bit. On the final drawings they were 36"x36"....but in reality they are 36" height and 32" width (including the trim around the cabinets. Kind of weird that they didn't consult with us...

So, I was wrong, SORRY!!!!
redroze
15 years ago
I get it now...I was looking at the wrong version of plans. The final plans say they are 2'7 3/4" wide. They tweaked it a bit.

I'm sorry, I hope someone else sees your post and helps out.

BUMP...someone please help Plucky out!!
redroze
15 years ago
Have a look at this old drawing. This is how 36"x36" would have looked (left upper cab). In my humble opinion, I think the width should be thinner.

{{!gwi}}
cambro5
15 years ago
pluckymama, here is our cabinet that is 36 x 36. There is also 3 inch filler on each side because it sticks out with 15 inch depth. HTH.
pluckymama
Original Author
15 years ago
cambro5, yours looks fine but it is connected to other cabinets. Ours will be next to a window and connected to the other wall cabinet on one side and then window and refrigerator on the other side. I'm wondering if they will look too big by themselves.

redroze, thanks for you help, wondering if I need to reduce the size to 32" and then put in filler or what else would I do.

Anyone else with 36" X 36" cabinets with an 8 ft. kitchen ceiling?
margieb2
15 years ago
Pluckymamma,

Do you have a plan you could post? Maybe that would help. I think the 36" cabinet will look fine. I have 2 sets of cabinets to the left of my window and no cabs on the right, (and 8' ceilings) but mine are funky sizes so I don;t think it would help.

Redroze, yours look great.

-Margie
pluckymama
Original Author
15 years ago
Here is a pic of my sink design with the 36" cabinets on each side of the sink window. Does it work?
igloochic
15 years ago
I'll take a better picture of this for you today, but this is a 36 wide x I think 43" hanging all by itself. When unified by the backsplash etc., they look great. To the left of this will be a 19" floor cabinet made into bay window seating, so it really will sit just kind of by itself.

In your drawing, I'm a bit thrown by the one on the left...it's hanging over nothing on the far side...what gives there???? I think mine works well because its over a 36" base...
pluckymama
Original Author
15 years ago
Igloo, thanks your pic helps. I just posted the whole design on another thread (re: redesigning island). On the next wall the upper cabs meet those cabs in a blind corner. Look at other thread to see.

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