Kitchen wall units

Swasterix

Afternoon all!

The wife and I are looking at kitchens for our up coming extension (if we can ever find a builder… another thread entirely). She absolutely loves this;



A few of questions, if I may;

The wall units are flush with the tall larder units. Is this possible with an off the shelf kitchen, or is this a case of bespoke joinery?

The bottom of the wall units appear to be the same colour as the doors, and in one piece. I’m assuming that it’s not as simple as clagging an end panel to the bottom of the units… not sure I would trust that… how?

The recessed lighting. Assuming that they’re fed from the mains, how is this achieved without the fittings sticking through the bottom of the units?

any ideas, thoughts, insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ka7e

The carcasses will be flush as long as you don't use an end panel on the tall unit. I wonder if the joins have been photoshopped out, it would be difficult to have a seamless finish between units and worktop. Some suppliers have self-coloured carcasses that match a limited range of their doors. I think the lighting is behind the shelf - probably a thin strip of LEDs, but can't imagine how the recessed lighting fits into the base of the wall units!

FreeBear

Swasterix said: The recessed lighting. Assuming that they’re fed from the mains, how is this achieved without the fittings sticking through the bottom of the units?

You can get recessed light fittings that are 20-25mm thick. Put a false bottom in the cupboard, and you'd hardly notice where the fitting is.

Unless you are a giant, you will need a step ladder to get to those cupboards. If they go full depth, expect to loose stuff at the back for years.

GDB2222

There's no fillet strip between the tops of the cupboards and the ceiling. That means:

a) You have to have doors pivoted at the top. Maybe, you are okay with that.
b) More seriously, the ceiling has to be absolutely dead level and flat. Which never happens in a real house.

Sandtree

ka7e said:

The carcasses will be flush as long as you don't use an end panel on the tall unit. I wonder if the joins have been photoshopped out, it would be difficult to have a seamless finish between units and worktop. Some suppliers have self-coloured carcasses that match a limited range of their doors. I think the lighting is behind the shelf - probably a thin strip of LEDs, but can't imagine how the recessed lighting fits into the base of the wall units!

If you go to the high end kitchen places in London around Wigmore Street etc you'll find tons of display kitchen that look seamless like the photo... many are exceptional workmanship but some are really odd design choices.

The recessed lights are just ultra thin units... the kitchen we were looking at (not from that area of London I hasten to add) had similar lights and they came prebuilt in to the wall units 

FreeBear said:

Unless you are a giant, you will need a step ladder to get to those cupboards. If they go full depth, expect to loose stuff at the back for years.

Certainly looks like the sort of cupboards for sorting the Xmas pudding basin and other such things with exceptionally rare use. 

Swasterix

FreeBear said:

Swasterix said: The recessed lighting. Assuming that they’re fed from the mains, how is this achieved without the fittings sticking through the bottom of the units?

You can get recessed light fittings that are 20-25mm thick. Put a false bottom in the cupboard, and you'd hardly notice where the fitting is.

Unless you are a giant, you will need a step ladder to get to those cupboards. If they go full depth, expect to loose stuff at the back for years.

Fully agree! I’m certainly not a giant, and neither is the wife. I’ve pointed out the practicalities, but seems the aesthetic is more important. What do I know!? Having said that, as another poster pointed out I suppose it could be useful for rarely used items that you just want out of the way. 

I did wonder whether you could use normal depth units and use some stud work to pack out/fix to. But then you would need to cover the bottom of the units somehow?

Swasterix

GDB2222 said:

There's no fillet strip between the tops of the cupboards and the ceiling. That means:

a) You have to have doors pivoted at the top. Maybe, you are okay with that.
b) More seriously, the ceiling has to be absolutely dead level and flat. Which never happens in a real house.

Yes, I’d considered that. Not too bothered about it being full ceiling height. It was more the wall units being flush with the larder units and the seemless bottoms I was trying to achieve.

FreeBear

Swasterix said: I’m certainly not a giant, and neither is the wife. I’ve pointed out the practicalities, but seems the aesthetic is more important. What do I know!?

In my kitchen, I did away with wall units all together. Makes the space feel much bigger and there is no where to hide the ugly stuff (that's what the charity shops are for). But then I'm not an interior designer.

Swasterix

FreeBear said:

Swasterix said: I’m certainly not a giant, and neither is the wife. I’ve pointed out the practicalities, but seems the aesthetic is more important. What do I know!?

In my kitchen, I did away with wall units all together. Makes the space feel much bigger and there is no where to hide the ugly stuff (that's what the charity shops are for). But then I'm not an interior designer.

I’m not too worried about the room feeling small as it’s going to be quite a large room anyway. I’m a bit of a minimalist so would do away with wall units myself. The wife on the other hand has lots of stuff which will need somewhere to hide. We’ve had the charity shop discussion…. She’s not keen haha…. But then it’s not my stuff so that’s fair enough.