kitchen larder cupboard - will this work?

aliby21

I have a corner in my kitchen 38cm deep by 150cm along. I'd like to get a larder cupboard built here, do you think this would be a suitable space? Thinking of making it maybe 120cm along, not the full length, and it could protrude another couple of cm but I don't want it sticking out too much more than 40cm. I am thinking that my wall units are 35cm deep so this should give a good usable space, but do others think it will be deep enough? I don't want any of the fancy doors with little shelf things on the inside on that come with fitted kitchens, basically looking to have just a big cupboard with shelves for my food.

Then, how would you have it look? I'm keen to have it full height to avoid the 'top of the kitchen cupboard' cleaning thing, but would this look odd? Was thinking maybe a separate top cupboard and possibly separate cupboard or drawers at the bottom.

Would a decent joiner (or carpenter?) be able to construct something nice? Don't mind laminate/conti board shelves but I'd like it to look like a proper cupboard.

thanks in advance!

z1a

Any decent DIYer would make a tidy larder in that space.

jennifernil

We have a couple of shallow tall cupboards each 60cm wide in our kitchen, basically the same depth as a wall unit but the same height as the adjacent oven housing, which almost reaches the ceiling.

We have 2 doors on each cupboard, a tall one lower down and above that a shorter one the same as the one above the oven .

Lots of adjustable shelves, very good for storing all sorts of things as it is easy to see what is in them. We have 2 units so the shelves do not have too long a span, tins and stuff like that can be heavy.

Ikea sell this type of cupboard, you can even have little drawers in them.

You could also build them out of wall units stacked up to the height you want and mounted on legs or a plinth, to match the plinth height in the rest of the kitchen. Be sure to fix them securely to the wall and each other.

If you cannot source additional doors to match your kitchen, you could choose a complete contrast, make a feature of the new cupboards.

We recently changed from a single to a double oven, so the cupboard below the oven had to go, we now have 3 drawers instead.

Imposssible to match our old solid oak doors, so instead we bought stainless steel drawer fronts and handles from Ikea, drawer kits from a firm called Trade Hinges, and have drawers that match the stainless steel and black oven.

Then we decided to add 2 extra units at the far end of the kitchen, so we used stainless steel again,2 deep drawers, 2 medium drawers and 2 shallow drawers, solid wood worktop exactly the same as the rest of the kitchen, and 2 wall units above with frosted glass doors. Plinth to match nearby units.

We used Ikea units which my husband adapted a little to fit, and made a solid plinth to sit the base units on as we were fitting a plinth heater.

Not finished yet but I think it will look good when it is.

aliby21

Jennifernil, thank you! that is so helpful. I hadn't thought of using wall units stacked up, but that is a great idea. Also thanks for the tip about Ikea, hadn't thought of looking there. i was thinking of something contrasting to the main bulk of the units, glad I am not being too 'different'. thank you!

exiled_red

We've just had our kitchen refitted and due to some protruding features we've had an oddly sized cupboard fitted. It's essentially a floor to ceiling cupboard that has had the back cup out and moved forward. It was build by our kitchen fitter and from the outside you can't tell that there is anything different about it.


In a previous flat we rented there were some very weird sized/shaped kitchen cupboards. I always think that if you have cupboards in the kitchen you will find stuff that can be stored in there. The size you are talking about seems quite large so I imagine you should be fine.