Here's our newly (almost) finished dining hutch - we used 2 30"x18" 'fan' cabinets, one of which was a mis-purchased cabinet that the cat rendered un-returnable, and the other was an AS-IS room pickup, as was the 30" base cabinet.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
Since we have high baseboards, we jacked the cabinet up on some 6" CAPITA legs so that the rear of the cabinet would clear the baseboard. We hung each of the 30"x18" cabinets on suspension rails, suspended about 1/2" above the countertop, then used 30" glass cabinet doors on top, with a hacked (see below) 30" shallow drawer below.
The countertop is a leftover piece from the kitchen reno which we practiced our India Ink/Waterlox treatment, ala
Brickmanhouse.
We've still not gotten the cover panels on, but this is as finished as it will probably get til after Christmas!
For the Hacked 30" Shallow drawer:
We used a 30" shallow (top to bottom) drawer from the oven cabinet, and a 15" shallow (front to back) drawer to make the 30" drawer for this cabinet.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
We used the bottom and back from the 30" drawer and the rails and sides from the 15" shallow wall-cabinet drawer.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
The only thing we had to cut was the bottom from the 30" shallow drawer - we used the existing drawer bottom to mark the drawer bottom for cutting, then slid it right in to the short sides from the 15" shallow drawer.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
Then we trimmed the 30" STAT/APPLAD drawer front to make it the right height, and redrilled the holes.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
Popped the drawer front on, and that was that! A little pricey for a single drawer (about $50 all-told), but saving money on all the other bits made it doable.
STAT White Dining Hutch with Shallow 30" Drawer (Hack)
Susan
