Appliance Garage With Stock Cabinets

last year

Has anyone done this? We have a limited budget and looking for creative ways to utilize stock size cabinetry. Pics appreciated. Thx!

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Verbo
last year
Whether or not something like that is possible will depend on your personal definition of an appliance garage, and the stock line you are considering. Large pocket doors? High end semi custom to full custom lines only. Aventos lift? Again, high end semi to full custom. A plain double door pantry with roll outs? A lower in semi custom line potentially.

Stock lines overall do not have enough sizes or design versatility for squat to produce an upper end custom design. Not without having a very creative and skilled (and very expensive) cabinet installer who can hack their build. Then you pay so much in rebuilding the cabinets labor that you could just have bought the better cabinets to begin with.
latifolia
last year
When you say appliance garage, are you thinking of the counter level type with roll-up door? Those have fallen from favor, so the RTA companies may not carry them.

The more popular style today is lower drawers and upper open shelves. Many kitchens have a pantry with simple shelves where appliances are stored.

Ikea is often recommended but they, as many others, have supply issues.

Maybe post a measured diagram of your kitchen and information about your family and your cooking style.
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If you're planning on using your stand mixer from that hutch, you will need counter space in front of it. You'll have to slide the mixer out to use. Option 2 won't allow you to do that. In Option 1, you'd have to store next to the wall in the hutch facing the cleanup sink. Then, you'll have to have space free in the cleanup zone for your ingredients, bowls, etc that you use when operating the mixer. Other thoughts...do you use the mixer for baking or prepping or both? Do you have a baking zone? If so, where is it? Will the stand mixer in that corner be easily accessible for the baking zone? What else will you store in the hutch? I struggled with something similar in my layout planning. I also wanted to hide the stand mixer in hutch in the corner between my cleanup sink and rangetop. I struggled placing the hutch in such a small corner (yours is bigger) while not impeding on my cleanup zone and still having then mixer available enough to the baking zone to the right of the rangetop and the prep zone across the way on the island. In the end, I had to give up the hutch and just store my mixer naked for the world to see. I do think I use it more often than I would had I needed to drag it out of a cab first. Here's how it looks.
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The upper cabinets are not at all recessed. The interior, of the garage-only, IS recessed. I'll take a picture that will also show you what NOT to do. 1) A worker "forgot" about the recessed cabinet while working in the closet behind it and put a screw through my cabinet material (see orange flag on left side). Just one of thousands of screw ups we've learned to live with (did I mention I hate my contractor at this point? We still have a HUGE punchlist for a project he was supposed to have finished in March 2008.) 2) the countertop fabricator was not shown the recessed cabinet so he assumed the rear dimension and installed the counter with a major piece missing! They didn't even mention it to us; I noticed the first time I opened the garage and freaked out bc the rear 4.24" of my garage had no counter! If this had been done properly there shouldn't be a seam in there (see orange flag on counter). BE THERE WHEN YOUR COUNTERS ARE TEMPLATED! YOUR CONTRACTOR DOESN'T NECESSARILY GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THE DETAILS! (and if he does, kiss his feet!) (Now I'm noticing the not-flush plate cover again - grrrrrr. You'd think they didn't BUILD that wall and install that new electric! MAN!) (whew - sorry for the rant, but warning you all means reliving it a bit for me -- I think I need a break from GW for a bit.)
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My old kitchen had a corner appliance garage with a tab-type pull at bottom of door. It was not hard to open at all. I think it depends on your door system. Ours was a roll up metal (forget the brand at the moment) that we tried a sample of ahead of time, it was a dream to slide up and down and stayed reliable for 14 years when we sold. I don't think the pull made much difference since we didn't need a lot of muscle to open that. But maybe post a more specific picture of your layout? and door style/mechanism there, and I could envision the problem you foresee? (Also, can you post pics rather than links? easier to navigate and you'll get more replies...)
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The cabinets should have one or two long screws in the top back rail attaching cabinet to wall. It should also have two screws attaching the cabinets to each other through the front vertical frame pieces. You may be able to cut down the corner cabinet.
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Miranda33
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Glad to be rid of the appliance garage in my new kitchen. In the old kitchen the garage door was always left open anyway. Your money is better spent on something else than an appliance garage.
shirlpp
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My appliance garage stays closed.
herbflavor
last year
show what you have in mind .this can be useful...the teeny garages with roll up louvres shouldnt be bothered with. sure you can do it but best use of space is dependent on what you desire /need it for and that is relative to the overall kitchen plan thus far. get help w a plan.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
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IMO appliance garages are a dated look I think the space is a kitchen appliances are part of a working kitchen and I like to have the ones I use often out not hidden in a space that takes up counter and is one more area to clean .I keep almost all my small appliances in a deep drawer the coffee machine is in a small space for a coffee bar not hidden and I iuse my mixer very often so it sits on my counter ,IMO a kitchen is all about how it functions for you and function always comes first . I like my island to be pretty clear of stuff it is my work space .
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