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The cabinet over the refrigerator is 30 inches deep and houses a large pull out that opens by pulling either of the doors above. It comes out over the refirgerator allowing the contents to be reached from the floor and a small step stool. No more crawling over the top of the refrigerator to reach items in the back of a cabinet.

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Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 23, 2012 at 3:35pm

Thank you Claude for a nice compliment on my work.  It still needs the crown molding that will be a custom molding about 12 inches in height. I am lookingforward to doing this molding as it will involve some planning and some cove cutting on the table saw.  There will be some thumb nail molding and some dentel molding.

Comment by Claude Bradford on July 23, 2012 at 12:20pm

This is simply exquisite.  I like the design .  Once again, a combination of art and function. 

Comment by Ken Darga on July 20, 2012 at 10:49pm

Jay,

Great approach.

Thanks for your inputs.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 20, 2012 at 9:23am

Thank you Ken.  This is something that I have been doing in most of the kitchen cabinet builds that I do anymore.  All my customers are thrilled once they see how easy it becomes to add and remove cabinet contents from a cabinet that is located above a 6 foot tall refrigerator.  Another good thing about this is that it is a deep cabinet rather than a standard debth upper cabinet.  This cabinet takes advantage of the full depth of the refrigerator which in this case is 30 inches deep and sets low over the refrigerator taking away the common habit of sitting objects on top of the refrigerator where they fall off from the opening and closing of the refrigerator freezer doors.  In some of these refrig cabinets, I will not glue in the cabinet bottom and build the cabinet in a way that the bottom can actually be lifted upward to allow for a taller refrigerator of the future.  I leave the rail unglued as well so it can be removed and cut to fit the new higher installation and re-attached using the face frame screws.  i have found from experience that he kreg screw will hold the bottom of a cabinet without gluing. 

Note in the photo that I have extra wide lower rails.   The doors are actually attached to the pull out  with screws and can be removed to adjust the pull out  height in the cabinet and still maintain door alinement.  In the photos that I posted the doors look to be higher than the others, however this is an optical illussion as the doors are the same height as the upper ones on the pantry.  The pantry sits 5 inches back from the refrig cabinets front.  It this install the refrigerator slides in with 1/2 clearence from the cabinet bottom. 

The big problem I have found is different refrigerator models make differenct hinge configerations.  It is the top hinges that causes cabinet clearence problems.  This is why I elect to approach leaving the bottoms of the cabinets so that I can modify them if the customer gets a refrigerator that is too tall for the opening.

Comment by Ken Darga on July 20, 2012 at 7:28am

Jay,

That pull-out drawer feature, in your overhead cabinets, is a ''great design'' approach.

Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 17, 2012 at 8:51am

Thank you Matin,  This is a cabinet that I have been doing in almost every kitchen that I do.  The way it works is that it has a large pull out on full extention slides that will pull out of the cabinet to a point that is infront of the cabinet.  The sides of the pull out are cut down allowing a person the ability of reaching items from the sides.  The doors are attached to the pull out.

Comment by Martin Abelon on July 17, 2012 at 6:58am

These are very nice. Beautiful work.

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