What size is your kitchen and how tall are your ceilings? The shelves were made box style with a hollow opening in the back that would allow the shelf to slide onto the support brackets. They are super strong and can hold a lot of weight since our cabinet maker installed support brackets directly into the 2 x 4 studs before drywall was installed. Basically though, plain sawn oak is the most affordable and for shelving it made sense. I’ll explain why we did that in a minute when we look at that part of the kitchen. The reason I state that is because we used a different cut oak, rift sawn white oak, for our cabinet and drawer panels. Our floating shelves is one of the most popular questions.įloating Shelf Details (type of wood, dimensions, how were they installed?) The idea is for your shelves to look like a pretty display yet be fully functional and stocked with dishes you will use daily. Open shelving is definitely not for all the mismatched hand me down dishes or plastic sippy cups. If you are going with the open shelf concept and minimizing or eliminating upper cabinets, this may be the time to purchase those eye appealing daily dishes (bowls, beverage glasses, dinner plates, etc). Take note of all your essential inventory and plan out where those items will go as you design your cabinet and drawer layout. My best kitchen design tip if you are working on a kitchen design, is to take stock of everything that will be stored in your drawers and cabinets. You can see more of our Butler’s Pantry HERE. Coffee mugs are stored in a separate drawer in our pantry just below our built in coffee maker. I love this concept more than reaching for them in a cabinet actually. Drinking glasses are all in this deep drawer. Since we have no upper cabinets, I had to be smart about how we would store our daily dishes. I also think it’s wise to put your pull out trash/recycle bins close to the sink as well so you can easily scrape food off of plates before rinsing off. If you are like me and don’t like dirty dishes in the sink EVER, then two dishwashers will be your best friend. That’s one thing I always recommend if you have the space. I knew that having two dishwashers worked well for us so I planned for that again. Everything would have a designated spot in our new kitchen and would be planned out before the cabinets were even built. I planned out where every single dish, utensil, cooking gadget, dish towels, etc. I measured all of our drawers and made modifications off of those dimensions to fit our new kitchen. What I found to be really helpful was to look at our current kitchen at the time (see our previous kitchen HERE) and take note of what worked and what didn’t work as a functional kitchen in that design. I relied on my own tape measure to lay out the kitchen and determine the size of each and every cabinet and drawer. Sure, the computerized 3d renderings would have looked prettier than my chicken scratch but the outcome still turned out the same. This sketch turned out looking like this in our new kitchen. For those who have been curious about dimensions of our floating shelves, here you go! This is one of the basic renderings from my cabinet builder. I had to rely on my own vision within my mind and hope the outcome would ultimately be my dream kitchen. The only kitchen concepts we had to work with were basic drawings I would provide him with measurements. I worked with a local “old school” cabinet maker who has a small crew of talented guys building cabinets out of a small shop. I’m sure that would have made this process so much easier but I really wanted to accomplish this on my own. I did not enlist the help of a professional kitchen designer. See full disclosure and photo policies HERE.īefore we dive into the Q & A, let me explain the process of our kitchen design. I’ll address the most common questions I receive.Īffiliate links used. I learned a lot through the process and hope that this Kitchen Q & A will help guide you and give you inspiration if you are building or renovating your own kitchen. I would spend hours and hours looking for inspiration photos on Pinterest and Instagram in hopes to spark my own creative design for our dream kitchen. When I started the design process of our kitchen I didn’t quite know the direction I wanted to take.
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