Plan kitchen - standard sizes and floor mounted kitchen cabinets

planning to buy a new kitchen set?Or order a custom design?And maybe even make your own hands?First of all, you do not want to learn the standard sizes of kitchen cabinets.This is not a whim of the manufacturer - Standard size worked out over the years in view of ergonomics, the average population growth in the country and the traditional kitchen layout.Thanks to them, you can think about the layout of the kitchen before its repair and not to be afraid, that the selected machine does not go into the locker.

Even if you order a kitchen in the private master or collect yourself, keep in mind that the majority of fittings, fixtures calculated on the standard size furniture, and sizes of facades, different from widely accepted, there are 25-30% more expensive.kitchen furniture standards are slightly different in different regions.For example, in the Scandinavian countries, it is higher in Asian - below, and in Russia and Italy - the average parameters.

Dimensions floor cabinets

The most important parameter - the height of floor cabinets, because they work surface is located.And hidden beneath appliances.The most common today height of 85 cm, as the most convenient for women of average height.It consists of:

• plinth height - 10-15 cm,
• proper locker boxes - 72 cm,
• thickness countertop - 28, 38 and 40 mm.

For owners tall height of the working surface can be increased up to 90 cm at the expense of Adaptive legs and thicker countertops.By the way, floor cabinets from Ikea is just 90 cm high.Doing less than 85 cm is not necessary, since most of the stand in home appliances 82 cm

width cabinets ranging from 15 to 90 cm in increments of 15 cm, but most manufacturers have models of width 40, 50 and 80 cm depth -.. 55see, but there are models of 45 cm, must be chosen for their narrow washing machines and other equipment.Table top should hang over façades lockers 3-5 cm so that it was convenient to work (how to select it, click here).Optimal its width - 60 cm

Dimensions wall cabinets

upper boundary wall cabinets is located at a height of 200-210 cm Their depth -.. 30-32 cm from the tabletop to the bottom border of the cabinet must be at least 45 cm, better - 55-60,to be able to accommodate multivarku, food processor and other equipment, and to use them comfortably.

Knowing the standard sizes, it is easier to design a convenient and efficient kitchen.