[kitchen08]

Has anyone made a wall corner cabinet that is similar to the 37"x37" corner base cabinet (it's L-shaped)? (I don't want to use Ikea's standard corner wall cabinet because so many people complained that the door leaves a noticable gap.)

My first question is how should I make/modify the L-shape cabinet box. One ideas I had is to cut the opening of the standard corner wall cabinet to be L-shaped, but it seems like some support would have to be added. Otherwise, I'm guessing the box must be made from scratch. Any ideas?

My second question is whether you can use the hinges from the 37" corner base cabinet to attach two 12" doors to each other -- how do you do this?

Attached is my kitchen plan -- this cabinet is for the back left corner of the kitchen.

I don't know if this is feasible or exactly how to accomplish this. Please help.

Thanks!!

[ikitchensetc]

If you adjust the door on the wall corner cabinet and use the white bumpers that come with it, there is not a noticeable gap. The only exception is if you do not place another wall cabinet opposite the hinge sde. Then the gap is pretty bad.

[kitchen08]

Originally Posted by ikitchensetc

If you adjust the door on the wall corner cabinet and use the white bumpers that come with it, there is not a noticeable gap. The only exception is if you do not place another wall cabinet opposite the hinge sde. Then the gap is pretty bad.

Thanks for your input!

I'm going to use the Nexus Yellow-Brown door with white cabinet boxes -- do you think the white will show through since it's a big contrast to the NYB door? I was concerned because the displays that I saw at IKEA seemed to have the gap issue with the corner cabinet.

[yankeelawyer]

I am very anti-gap ... but, if your biggest concern is the possibility of having any white visible (in contrast to the NYB), you might try to see if you can find edge banding that matches the NYB, and apply that to the edges of that particular cabinet. That way, if there happens to be any gap, at least it would be masked a lot more.

Several companies sell edge banding. A google search or search on this boards should bring up some hits.

[ikitchensetc]

Ditto what Yankeelawyer said. In all the dark door styles with white cabinets, you will see the white edge. Edge banding does make it less noticeable but I think the cabinets look weird when the doors are open.

If you do go this route, apply the edging before you assemble the cabinets.

[kitchen08]

Thanks for everyone's help! I'm going to try the edge banding.

[splatgirl]

I used one of those wood stain markers anyplace there was a white gap that was noticeable which, out of all the cabinetry I have, was just a very few spots... Quick and easy.
A regular (from an art supply store for a wider selection of colors) would work too.

[tommymiller50]

Another option would be to put together a "blind corner" where you just butt two cabinets together.

I've got a couple of these in my kitchen due to weird angles and dimensions in my kitchen and my general dislike of the look of corner cabinets, but they are butting up against open shelving and a fridge (at an angle), so don't actually have experience doing two cabinets, but imagine it's doable if you are OK with having a bit of trim in the very corner to allow the doors to work.

Here's a post I just noticed on the subject

How to make a blind corner upper cabinet?

And here's a post from me on how to mount extra doors on a cabinet frame, enabling the blind corner...

Adding an extra door to wall cabinet

[RubrikGreen]

I've been contemplating an "L" shaped upper cab for my own remodel... This is how I've been thinking it:

One wide cab. One narrower (say: 36" + 24", or 30" + 18" ) You lose 12"+ depth on the large cabinet, or -gain- 12+" on the narrow one. ;^)
Do Not Use one -side- of narrow cab. Butt this open side up against wide cab, and use metal mending plates (or etc.) to join the top and bottoms of wide cab to open side of narrow cab.

Then use 2 doors. Probably could use the base-corner-cab. hinging if desired.

Shelves would need to be constructed in similar fashion, but would have 3 points for attachment: both sides of wide cab + remaining side of narrow cab.

[yankeelawyer]

I plan to have my upper cabs set at a 90 degree angle in one corner, but I will either do a blind cab configuration or will simply leave the corner itself as dead space.