I’m no professional but why was the electrical not planned in the wall behind the cabinet before the cabinet was installed. This way a cut out would be made in the back of the cabinet with outlet cover. I see cutouts in cabinets for plumbing, in cabinet islands etc. so why not for this cabinet.

I doubt this is to code and I would be very disappointed to receive this.

I have electrical outlets located in many of my kitchen and bathroom cabinets and all you can see is the outlet. It looks just the way an outlet looks on a wall in the room.

There no exposed wiring of any kind and the outlet is flat against the back of the interior.

Yes I also wonder if it is to code. It was planned beforehand- I am perplexed as to why it is like this.

Is there a cement wall behind the garage? Why can't he recess that outlet? I would pay a real electrician to come in and consult. And on a side note..DH says appliance garages should have a MINIMUM of four outlets which means nothing more than a bigger outlet easy peasy. What's with the doorbell red wiring he asks too? GET AN ELECTRICIAN! Or Uncle Bob--who frankly could do better.

Not to code anywhere IMO and BTW appliance garages are a really dated idea so maybe just forget that plan .

I suspect (just guessing here) that it is to code- the red wire looks like low voltage just controlling a solenoid that kills the outlet if the door is shut. It certainly doesn’t look good or professional or custom. Minimally it should have gone across the top of the cabinet and then down the back of the face frame where it would not be seen. The whole thing is janky.

OMG! There is NO excuse for this mess. The cabinets will be need to be taken down and all the electrical boxes (junction / outlet) will then be mounted in the wall stud cavity before the cabs go back up. I've never heard of any requirement for a "kill switch" on appliance garages. You say all this was planned out in advance? Someone (NOT you) needs to take responsibility for the cost of correcting this.

I’m not an electrician but do plenty of renovations and believe code requires the main electrical line in the metal corded line, which it is and the other part is capped. So I believe this is up to code. But it’s also poor planning and I’m guessing someone thought of this after the layout and install was completed.

It’s not even unprofessional. Its just hacky.

just curious. what appliance are you planning to use the plug for? It seems that it would be too deep to effectively use a coffee maker or toaster etc.

I don't know - doesn't look terribly unprofessional to me. I'm not sure what was specified - I think code would require that the control box would need to be accessible?

I do think a double duplex outlet with a exposed metal work box would be better - embrace the industrial look :-) it's usually out of sight anyway!

And could the switch be moved to the the top so that it and the wiring would be less noticeable?

I'm guessing that somebody forgot to wire the electrical PRIOR to installing the cabinet and did... this. I'd ask why this wasn't wired prior to cabinet installation, with boxes mounted in the stud bay. A reasonable answer would be that there's a masonry wall behind the cabinet.

As far as being up to code, I have similarly exposed items in a corner cabinet where the driver for all my undercabinet LEDs is mounted, but they're in a location that I will never see or touch (I have to get on my hands and knees and grab a flashlight to see them). They were inspected and passed with no question.