[Julie_kitchen]

Hi everyone,

We are planning a gut rehab of our home and have decided to go with IKEA Hallarum in our kitchen. Our kitchen is open to the family room, and we'd like to create built-in media/toy storage in a large niche at one end of the room. Since this space is very open to the kitchen, and to keep costs down, we are hoping to create the built-in with the AKURUM cabs, so we can use matching Hallarum doors.....

We would like the entire built-in to be 2 feet deep. I think I can make it work w/ the IKEA cabs *IF* I can essentially "stack" 3 base cabinets. Is there some way to attach/secure the base cabs to the wall?? Would the suspension rail work or not?

I had also considered using a tall pantry unit. But I'm leaning away from that for 2 reasons: I would prefer the cabs to be 36" wide (Max pantry is 30" wide)... Also, I'd prefer to have 3 sets of doors (rather than the tall pantry doors), and I don't think the available door sizes would allow me to interchange the set of tall pantry doors with 2 sets of base cab doors....

My other option is to use a base cabinet on the bottom, and then stack 2-3 refrigerator cabs - that should work since these are technically "wall" cabinets, right?

Anyway, thanks in advance!

Julie

[kmcg]

Julie_kitchen wrote:

Also, I'd prefer to have 3 sets of doors (rather than the tall pantry doors), and I don't think the available door sizes would allow me to interchange the set of tall pantry doors with 2 sets of base cab doors....

Julie - For the 88" pantry, you can come pretty close with doors that are 39+24+24 - maybe hiding the extra inch with molding or something. Or you could do three 30's and have the extra door length come down over the toekick a bit. How high are your ceilings?

Have you considered the 24" wide pantries. We are told they are coming out with new hingesand interior drawerfronts that would allow you to set the whole pantry up with pullout drawers. Expensive, possibly, depending on how many you need, but what a great way to store the toys! Things tend to get lost at the back of cupboards in my house.

Someone else will chime in on the stacking question. I know they are not set up to use the rail, but I don't see why you couldn't just drill through the backs and bolt them to the wall.

Kathy

[DesignDiva]

The base cabinets cannot use the suspension rail, because they don't have the lip at the back like the wall cabinets do to accomodate the rail and allow them to sit flush.

Yes, you can use the deep overfridge cabinets, they use the suspension rail. You can just stack them.

[Julie_kitchen]

Kathy and Eva-

thanks so much for your quick responses!

Our ceilings are 9 1/2 feet tall (old house!) so, the pantry cab would still be a couple feet shy of the ceiling -

I may play around with 2 24" tall pantry cabs and see what that looks like. 3 30" doors would be nice - maybe it could overhang at the top by 1"? (instead of at the toekick)

Good idea about the drawers! I'll have to think about that.

Julie

[nyc_home]

Another option I think would be to use a tall oven cabinet and use the"oven" space for a tv if it fits.