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Katie Jones
5 years agoThank you! Our style is similar to this photo. But a smaller kitchen with no island. Instead there will be a table to eat at.
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Comments (5)I am not a fan of the upper stack being glass doors. Of course many people love them. I will tell you my reasons why I don't. First, what do you put up there? Displays of what? And what you do put up there will be too high up for people to see them properly. Second - do you now have to pay for expensive lighting inside those glass cabinets? And if you do, realistically how often will you turn them on? Third - I like when the lower stack has the glass fronted doors instead of the upper stack. The reason is that it takes advantage of the lightness and light reflection of the larger doors of the lower stack. The upper doors won't provide that. Fourth - you can put your dishware and glasses there, and when people are over they can help themselves rather than trying to figure out where your coffee mugs or glasses are. Fifth - if you use a few of the lower stack for the glass doors, then the upper stack with solid doors can be used for needed storage, why forego that storage space. All that being said, if you prefer the upper stack as glass, go for it! I am just giving MHO....See More
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5 years agoKatie Jones
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5 years agoIt won't look odd (ok, I did not see the actual kitchen), especially not if you remove some, so it's not a complete row. Or remove some doors. A 12" soffit would be a bit odd too.
We once did a kitchen reno where we replaced the stacked doors for a single smooth tall one. But dutch kitchen doors mostly go in front of the cabinet, not recessed.Mrs Pete
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoWe have 11’ high vaulted ceilings in our kitchen.
Think long and hard on going past 9' in a kitchen. Why? Cost and (lack of) function for those tip-top cabinets. And proportion: once your cabinets are that far above human heads, they start to look odd.
Consider: I am at this moment in my classroom (watching my students take a test). My classroom is huge: roughly 35x35 with four giant windows and nine oversized lights. My ceiling is 10' high, and it looks sky-high. You're talking about doing more height in a smaller space.
If you're sure you want this dimension, consider fake doors (no boxes behind them) for your upper-uppers. It'd save a ton, and you can't use them anyway.
I keep seeing stacked cabinets with a long cabinet (probably 42”) on the bottom and a smaller cabinet (12”) on top. I don’t love the look.
This is the way it's typically done: Large cabinet on the bottom /smaller cabinet on the top. Dimensions may vary.
One thing to consider: When you stack two cabinets, you're getting a few inches of "extra inches" or "wasted inches" in the middle. Why? Every cabinet needs a bottom, and that requires probably 3-4". So if you stack cabinets, you're going to get those 3-4" of wasted space somewhere in the middle.
If you use a shorty stack on the tip-top, that wasted space is over your head ... whereas, if you use a medium-medium stack, that wasted space may be within your reach. Mock this up with poster board and see what YOU PERSONALLY can reach.
Or, if you do custom cabinets (one tall cabinet with two separate doors on the same box), you eliminate the 3-4" of waste.
But I digress ... nothing says you can't do equal cabinets -- and that's what I think you're seeing here: stacked cabinets of equal size. I'm guessing that the first pix is 24 + 24 and the second pix if 32-36 + 32-36. Both appear to me to be equal in size. Honestly, if you hadn't shown me a picture, I would've said, "Ick" to the idea of equal-sized doors ... but I like it.
One thing I think is important in this concept: Your inspiration pix show MATCHING cabinets. I don't think this concept would be attractive if you had solid lower-uppers /glass upper-uppers. You need to stick to one type of cabinet door.
One last thought: You mentioned 42" cabinets ... that's a very tall cabinet, and it might be prone to warpage over the years. That's another reason people stack: smaller cabinets don't have the warp-factor.
Also, is this style totally not in?
Wrong question. Styles and trends will always come and go. Study loads of pictures and choose what you'll still like once the trend has passed.
Not need, but with just one set of cabinets on the wall it looks odd because it leave a large space above.
Regardless of dimensions, I strongly prefer cabinets that reach the ceiling.
This picture is really lovely, but one of the big reasons I like cabinets that go to the ceiling is that I don't want to clean up there ... and this negates that benefit.
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