Please help me decide which upper cabinet doors to replace/add glass
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Comments (22)Just thought I'd chime in with my lighting plan for the interior of my cabinets. I did LED pucks all around, dimmable. The controllers are mounted in the cabinet above my range hood, which of course is more or less useless given the 8" duct running through it. So I have regular 'Romex' 14/2 wire running from the 2 dimmer switches on my wall to the 2 controller units in that space. Then I ran Romex 14/2 wire and stubbed it out of the walls under each section of cabinets and above each section of cabinets. You can see it stubbed out of the walls in some of the pics. One dimmer controls the interior lighting, one the under cabinet lights. You can't run low voltage wire inside walls, so I roughed in standard 14/2 from the controller units above the range to each isolated section of lighting. The controllers send low voltage current across that full size wire, and then I pigtail on the low voltage wire/LED pucks. All of that wire is just strung from one hole to the other drilled through the cabinets and can be pulled out etc. The under cabinet lighting is all enclosed in light boxes mounted to the bottom of the cabinets - no exposed wiring. The 2 dimmers have to be designed for low voltage lighting - no big deal. But 'digital' dimmers tend to not work - you need the mechanical slider type. In each upper section of cabinet I installed a single puck, in the center. So it's more or less hidden behind the door stiles. In the all glass cabinets I put 2 pucks at the top and they have glass shelves. 19 lights in total. I also have 10 recessed lights in the ceiling, which almost never get used. I wanted LED's for the lack of heat. They're warm to the touch but you can put your hand over them and keep it there - just warm, not hot. 2 years in and the lights have been trouble free. in hindsight I would have skipped the whole dimmer business - we never use the dimmers - always just full on. If we entertained and wanted ambient lighting I suppose dimming them would be nice, but we don't do that often....See MorePlease help me decide on kitchen wall cab elevations
Comments (20)I agree that your kitchen plan breaks a lot of rules and will be very inefficient if not outright dysfunctional. Could you post a higher resolution diagram of the kitchen to make it easier for the talented folks here to help you redesign your space? I wouldn't run straight to a KD just yet. There have been way too many KD-designed plans that have needed tweaking by folks here to make them functional. In the end, you may need to hire one but I'd give the folks here a try first....See MorePartial remodel - please help me decide on removing upper cabs
Comments (26)I like your pendant choice! I think the area around the window wouldn't feel so empty if you had similar breathing room to the left of the range. What about removing the center tall cabinet and putting one of the cabinets you took down from next to the window in its place (looks like they are the same size as the two smaller ones next to the fridge anyway)? Shift them all to the left and line up the top with the top of the fridge. Are you opposed to having backsplash below the range only? Perhaps under the window frame too if the sink area is a concern. If the tile you're thinking of is the wall color, I think that would look nice....See MoreCab doors are in and I'm considering switching. Help me decide!
Comments (126)Without turning this into a meta-discussion, on GW there is generally an unwritten piece of etiquette that once a major decision has been made, people will refrain from further disagreement, no matter how vehement the disagreements had been up to the point of the final decision. And I don't know, I disagree that it's never too late to make a change. Sometimes it becomes extremely impractical or too expensive to make a change. And even if money is no object, there are other people to think about here. I know someone who made several fabrications of slip matched doors for a client who changed their mind a couple of times regarding the configuration of cabinets underneath. When they wanted to change again, the client said "and don't worry we will pay for it again" the fabricators told them they didn't care if the clients would pay for it again, they weren't doing it again, because it was wasteful of materials, and they had other jobs waiting for other people and they were getting tired of doing this one. Ultimately there is no single correct answer for a decision like this, and I don't think anyone in the beginning of the discussion thought that walnut would be wrong. But walnut being elegant and high end doesn't really mean that the ribbed door is a bad choice....See Moreherbflavor
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