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on a budget. I love to cook and spend a good deal of time in my kitchen. We have been in our house for almost 9 years (it was new when we moved in) and while the kitchen seemed SOOO big when we first moved in, over the years it has revealed its shortcomings, both in layout, traffic flow, storage...Plus, the existing cabinets are starting to show their age.
My husband and I (mostly my husband) redid the kitchen in our old house, have installed Pergo flooring, hung drywall, etc., so we have some experience as DIYs.
We want to increase the "functionality" (is that a real work?) of the space we have rather than putting an addition on our house. So far, I have come up with what I think is a good layout for the new kitchen.
But, my first major glitch has surfaced: I wanted to use wall cabinets hung from the ceiling over a peninsula of base cabinets. Everything I see on this site says don't do it. Are there any other cabinet lines that i could use for this purpose which would coordinate with the Akurum cabinets?
I have seen a couple of installations using the horizontal cabinets hung from basically a beam that runs across the ceiling. They are usually hung back-to-back because otherwise you'd probably have alignment issues. You can't hang the AKURUM cabinets from the top, the way they are engineered requires transferring the load down the sides of the cabinet.
No reason you couldn't use another brand of cabinets just for those particular ones, though. You could even use IKEA doors on them to match if you size them right.
Wow, maybe some good news already. Can you direct me to pictures/directions or such as to how others have done this using a beam? I actually love the glass front horizontal cabinets, and I believe they would work really well with my design.
I am trying to envision what you wrote about--are the cabinets attached to a beam IN the ceiling or to a beam that has been bolted (or otherwise attached) to the ceiling?
Hmmm...I'll have to put whatever genes my engineer relatives passed on to me and think about this one. Thanks for the leads. I did go to the link you supplied, and it looks as if someone else asked for the same information a few months ago. I saw no reply providing any info, but maybe they emailed it directly?? I left a request for info also, so perhaps I will get the info I need.
Right now, I'm envisioning a 2x4 or 2x6 (depending upon how far down the holes for the hanging rail are--can't think right now of the measurement, but I can look at the IKEA cabs in my laundry room...) that is securely attached to the ceiling (into a truss, or whatever they're called). Then, attaching the horizontal cabinets, probably back to back, and then covering the end with a cover panel, and also putting a cover panel along the bottom of the run of horizontals to cover the gap. Does that make any sense, or am I just coming up with half-baked ideas? I would probably use these cabinets for glasses--nothing really heavy.
That's pretty much along the lines of the idea I proposed on that previous thread.
I would also add at least another piece of wood at the bottom, running between the back of the cabinets for added rigidity, otherwise the cabinets would be just hanging from the rails, free to swing back and forth. For best results you should build some sort of frame between the opposing cabinets...
This subject always seem to come back one way or another, but nobody has seem to come up with a definitive answer yet. I would say it's a matter of thinking upside down, or maybe backside up actually: why not just use the same L brackets, but mounted against the inside top of the cabinet rather than against the back, also drilling the respective holes on the top for the bolts? You get the idea...
OK, I think I'm getting it. I am still in the planning stages and whether or not i can accomplish this hanging from the ceiling stuff will really affect how the design of the kitchen will have to be done. One thing I am sure of now is that if i go this route I will have to factor in a few more inches to accomodate the ceiling attached beam from which the cabinets will hang.
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