Kitchen Cabinet Layout - Full Overlay and Spacing/Filler Dilemma
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Full overlay, Inset or Faux Inset Overlay?
Comments (11)Don't feel you have to enforce vertical symmetry with the need to line the coolers up with the stacked bottles. If slightly wider ones are cheaper and would work, the go with that without a qualm. And i think having them the same dimension actually weakens the overall design, a bit. You'll notice that in colored picture, the bottle stack and the cooler doors don't line up, and it still looks well-balanced. Notice, too, that there's even an optical illusion-created discordance between the stacked bottle rack on the right and the strongly vertical-orientation of the glass-paneled doors to the left on the other side of the TV. So just making those two sides match didn't result in an eye-sweet balance, no matter what the tape measure may say. In your case, I think the strong apparent verticality of the coolers' slab doors may make them seem narrower than they actually are, creating a top heavy look to the wine racks above. This violates the general sense we have that things should be bolder, and stronger-appearing on the base, and successive layers should get lighter, narrower, smaller, or whatever. In our second drawing, with the coolers moved inward, the optical-illusion of their narrowness is resolved. Also it may just be artefacts of the layout but the D-shaped raised trim pattern on the sides of the narrow lower doors strikes me as unattractive. Also door hinging should be book-matched, or disguised to look that way. HTH L....See Moretell me: do you like overlays with or w/o filler?
Comments (7)breezy- Well it started by just wanting to keep costs down & avoiding wasted cab/drawer space, but I do like inset so the cab guy said he often does his overlay to "look" kind of like inset (by using filler) if we like that look. It certainly doesn't have to be that way and to be honest I had no idea of the differences til very recently. SO, maybe we'll just do standard overlay and inset tops. I like overlay too so it's not that I'm trying to get around it. The yellow kitchens, to me, had a vibe that perhaps went better with inset. I may be mistaken. (won't be the first time) lol We decided on yellow in the link below : ) It was always something I wanted to do but didn't know what DH would think. Turns out he's totally on board with whatever I want to do so THAT works out! Here is a link that might be useful: My Yellow Thread...See MoreIs 1 1/4 true 'full overlay' -calling cabinet experts
Comments (11)junicb, You know, I didn't even contact cabinemakers choice; for no other reason than I came upon Cabinet Authority first and Rick said he would give me a discount based on quantity (it's big; whole house) and I have bugged the absolute you know what out of him, nickel and diming my order; I would feel guilty putting him through all of this! We had a foundation overrun in our construction and it's put a major cramp in my kitchen budget, so I'm having to scrutinize every single detail. That said, being a free marketplace and all, I might share my final final FINAL order with the other folks and see how they come in, if I don't like the final quote I get from Cabinet Authority, just to see how they differ. I would love to hear more about this process; are you having trouble sleeping and getting a major crash course in cabinetry components, as I am? My husband thinks I'm a nutcase. Thank God for Gardenweb and its kitchenistas!...See MoreFull overlay cabinets
Comments (19)*Sigh* Gigi, you are NOT the oldest member of the ABB club (nor is BreezyGirl) - that's probably me! It's been over 8 years (since spring of 2008). I'm about ready to throw in the towel and forget about a backsplash! Every time I finally get enough saved, something else comes up that's more important - and now I have two kids in college. (We're doing cash only for the backsplash - just as we did for the Kitchen - and I want a rather expensive backsplash - Jeffrey Court Fire & Ice.) Oh, and while I have glass shelves for the "glass" cabinets, I still don't have the glass to go in the doors - just open space! (And boy do the shelves and items in those cabinets get dusty quickly!!!) We do have all our cabinet hardware, though!...See Moredarbuka
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