Different Kitchen Base Cabinets
Some stock kitchen cabinet manufacturers offer pretty simple base kitchen cabinets. Door and drawer, full height doors, or all drawers. Some of these kitchen base cabinets might have roll trays. But they’re all pretty much square base cabinets.
However, other manufacturers make semi custom or totally custom kitchen base cabinets. These base cabinets are generally called “end of run” or “transition” cabinets, and they’re used in situations where a regular kitchen base cabinet won’t work.
Making a Transition
This image shows a run of varying depth kitchen base cabinets. For whatever reason, a whole line of 24 inch deep base cabinets is not desirable. It’s usually to open up floor space, but sometimes it’s just create a visual effect. Whatever the reason, it’s all possible because of the transition kitchen base cabinet. Looking down from the top, it’s a trapezoid. The back of the base cabinet sits up against the wall. The two sides are perpendicular to that, but one is 24 inches, and the other is 12 inches.
Another application for this base cabinet is at the end of a run. You might want a gentler end to your base cabinet run; rather than a square edge to the cabinets, there’s a 45 degree angle that softens the end.
Turning the Corner
Something I run into every now and again is cabinets having to go around the OUTSIDE of a corner. Again, these transitional kitchen base cabinets come to the rescue. Basically two runs of cabinets intersect at the corner, and thee base cabinets I speak of join them in a smoother fashion than just putting in a square cabinet that only faces one way.
There are a couple of base cabinets that can help fill the void. One looks like a triangle, if you’re seeing it in a top view. These kitchen base cabinets butt up nicely against the cabinets on either side, since the back of it forms a 90 degree angle.
The other kind of transitional kitchen base cabinet is a bit weirder. There’s the right angle that will sit against the wall’s corner (with the two sides butted up against each of the surrounding cabinets) but the front of it isn’t straight. There are two “front” sides, coming at each other at a 135 degree angle. This makes for an even “rounder” corner than with the triangular kitchen base cabinet mentioned before.
Seen here (from below and unassembled) is a situation you might run across.
Some companies don’t make the triangular base kitchen cabinet. In situations like this, you can have the same end of run look using both a transitional base cabinet and a triangular wall cabinet. Since the wall cabinet is 12” deep, it will snug right up to the short side of the transitional base kitchen cabinet. You’ll just have to make sure that the wall cabinet is 30” high, and you’ll have to block it up 4 1/2” so that the toe kicks and kitchen cabinet tops match up.
Here’s a shot of the same kitchen base cabinets pictured before, but using the double angle base cabinet, and a double angle wall cabinet above it.
Good luck with your transitions and corners!
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