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The fake out, would be that it's the two drawer fronts on that big sink base. But it opens as one big front. Which then left me with do I put a cup pull on the "bottom" drawer" so that it matched the rest of the way around the kitchen.

I love the cup pulls, but I'm not sure I want them at my shins, now that I really think about it. :) I need to look at more pictures online. :)

I found this kitchen that has knobs, bar pulls and cup pulls. So I guess I can do this.

Do you mean you would do two 18" drawer fronts on both sides, or two 36" drawer fronts? I think using two 18" would be much better than one big front. We store very little under our sink, but it nice to be able to open just one door at a time. And if you ever had a plumbing emergency I think it would be much easier to deal with if you just had to open 2 doors instead of pulling out a huge awkward drawer.

I can do that? Put 4 drawer fronts on the one 36" cabinet? How do I do that?

We will be placing our cabinet order with in the next two weeks.....

Here are threads on Ikea sink base hacks:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3741545/hacking-ikea-cab-for-trash-pullout?n=15

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2999950/can-i-hack-a-trash-pull-out-from-an-ikea-15-inch-depth-cabinet-base?n=18

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3720670/ikea-sink-base-hack?n=23

This is Buehl's Ikea hack compilation:

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/4306128/ikea-hacks-compilation-of-ikea-hacks?n=7

Got it, I'll play with this a bit. I think my sink cab price just went up...but oh well, I have some play in my budget. :)

Terri,

I have a head cold so my thinking is not 100% clear today. :-) I'm going to hopefully answer your question and not be confusing. (I'm not sure of my chances with this!)

If you are talking about combining drawer fronts (regardless of whether or not they are 18" or 36") then it would look like the first picture in this post (but wider if 36").

That would involve connecting the drawer fronts with this Ikea part: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20277436/

I don't see any reason you couldn't combine the drawer fronts and drill hinge holes to make the combined drawer fronts in to doors. We used custom fronts in our Ikea kitchen, but we were able to drill the hinge holes ourselves in a few cover panels and it was not difficult. The important thing would be to make sure you put the connectors in a place that don't conflict with the hinge holes. (Probably moving them in a little bit.

Or, a possibly much simpler solution would be to buy 2 18"x20" doors and two 18" by 10" drawer fronts. You could attach the 10" tall drawer fronts permanently to the sink base, so they don't move.It shouldn't interfere much with the access to cabinet, since the sink will be taking up the top of the cabinet.

Then you could attach the two 18"x20" tall doors as regular doors with hinges and you could put the handle anywhere and even use the cup pulls and make them look like drawers if you want.

Maybe you don't mind the idea of pull outs under the sink. But if you are not putting your trash there, it seems like the pull outs are more inconvenient for under sink access. I personally like having the doors there. I don't think hacking the cabinet/fronts in either of these ways would be too difficult. So if you think doors would be better, you can make it work.

At the very least I would consider whether you want to do a 36" pull out versus 2 18". The really wide pull outs felt really awkward to me at the Ikea store. If you do 18" pull outs you can add a small piece of wood at the bottom to make that happen as is demonstrated in some of pippabean's links.

Thanks Lisa. Those links and the hacks are all super helpful for visualizing. Now, to just decide what my asthetic look is. Certainly budget wise, two 18" doors is the best deal.

Can of worms..lol...I have now switched out the sink to two doors. I'll make the right side the trash pullout. Converted the 18" next to it back to drawers . But switched the 18" to the right of the stove to a door. I realized I needed standing room for my cookie sheets, cooling racks and muffin pans.

I'll put 5" handles on the lower "doors", cup pulls on the drawers and 2 kinds of knobs on the upper cabs. Fauceted glass for my 2 glass door uppers. And solid rounds for the fridge surrounding cabs.