jhophop...we are in the process of assembling and installing our kitchen full of Barker cabinets. The wall cabinets do not have hanging rails. They have 3/4 inch thick plywood nailers on the back of the cabinet, top and bottom and you screw through those nailers into the studs to attach the cabinets to the walls. They do not use an Ikea-like system of hanging rails. So far we are extremely pleased with the quality of our Barker cabinets but we just got them so I can't speak to their longevity with first hand experience but they are so well built that I can't imagine them not holding up like any other similar quality cabinets.

ajc71...to fulfill your curiosity, it is edgebanded on both long edges. Both sides of the panel are finished but one side is obviously much nicer looking and seemed obviously intended to be facing out. What we interpreted as the inside of the refrigerator panels both had much more color variation but not in a nice way. Here is a pic of when they first installed it. You can see the wide color variation on the inside of the panel. Sorry for the gratuitous BIL butt pic!! This post was edited by dcward89 on Wed, Jun 18, 14 at 13:01

Please don't post unless you're adding to the "best advice" - don't just bump for the sake of bumping or b/c you like what you read. (DJFiler -- you're fine.) The longer the thread gets, the more challenging it is to read, so let's keep the posts to new ideas. [Note: We used to bump years ago b/c threads disappeared forever if they fell off page 67...even if you had the URL you couldn't get to it. However, for the past 7 years or so, that has not been the case. So, no need to bump! PLUS, this thread is part of the "New to Kitchens" set of useful URLs!] . . One of the best pieces of advice we got: With a peninsula, instead of using a corner susan or blind corner or even voiding out the corner, we took a 27"W cabinet, turned it 90 degrees and faced it outside the Kitchen. It became our Pet Center. The corner is 24" x 24", but you need 3" of filler on each side of the corner. So, instead of filler on the peninsula leg, the 27" wide cabinet acts as filler on the inside of the Kitchen but is usable storage on the outside of the Kitchen. Pictures: Outside the Kitchen: . Inside the Kitchen (We had to add an additional 3" of filler b/c of the warming drawer handle...if I had it to do over, I would have used a 30"W cabinet turned 90 degrees so there would have been no filler at all on that side.)

We have a bathroom in our kitchen! Yays! lol It was already in place when we moved in and there was no other practical place to put it on that floor (and it's the only bathroom on that floor), so as undesirable as it was, it was what we were stuck with. Getting rid of it would have meant traipsing down a flight of stairs and walking through a bedroom to go to the nearest bathroom. That was a lot more unacceptable to me than having a bathroom in the kitchen! ;) After living here for many years, I can honestly say that it hasn't been a problem at all and has worked out fine for us. Much ado about nothing, as far as I'm concerned. :) To save some $$$, you might want to consider RTA cabinets, such as Barker or Scherrs. Ours were roughly half the cost of cabs from a big box store but the quality was just as good, if not better. I would say that your kitchen needs more drawers, but I'm obsessed w/drawers, so keep that in mind. :D