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Nov 29, 2020 10:28:04 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Nov 29, 2020 10:28:04 GMT -5
Do me a favor. Go to your kitchen and measure the distance between the countertop and the bottom of the upper cabinets. How many inches?
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Nov 29, 2020 10:48:22 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Nov 29, 2020 10:48:22 GMT -5
18" is the standard, IIRC.
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Post by brucemacneill on Nov 29, 2020 11:05:02 GMT -5
18" is what we have.
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Post by howard lee on Nov 29, 2020 11:16:58 GMT -5
We have 18-3/4".
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Post by Marty on Nov 29, 2020 11:19:12 GMT -5
Our place was built in the late 1940s. I'm pretty sure it originally had that horrid enameled metal cabinetry, which we all know sucks. In the 70s the owner did a cheap renovation using MDF cabinets and Formica countertops. Measuring 3 different cabinets I get 18 1/4", 18 3/4" and 19".
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Post by drlj on Nov 29, 2020 11:25:07 GMT -5
18 1/4.
What do I win?
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Post by Marty on Nov 29, 2020 11:38:03 GMT -5
Trip to a hot spring spa and a ice water enema.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 29, 2020 11:42:11 GMT -5
New house. New construction. 18 inches.
Mike
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 29, 2020 11:44:34 GMT -5
17” for us. We redid the kitchen 20 years and added wood floors and a beadboard ceiling which shortened the height of the room. My wife who knows every home design spec there is says 18” is standard.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 12:40:19 GMT -5
18" Who knew?
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 29, 2020 14:07:00 GMT -5
19 and three quarter, which might confirm my suspicion.
We live in a prefab Wasau home built around '78. I've always suspected the kitchen counters were a bit lower than usual, just lower enough to bug me when I'm at the stove or washing dishes. I just look it up, and the usual counter height is 36 inches, ours is 35. That's enough of a difference to be annoying.
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Post by Dub on Nov 29, 2020 14:12:22 GMT -5
Eighteen inches. Counters with quartz countertops measure 35-¾", cabinets are 18" above the countertop.
Everything professionally installed last year.
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Post by epaul on Nov 29, 2020 14:14:16 GMT -5
We had custom cabinets installed in a "designed by Charlene" kitchen. 17.5"
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Post by theevan on Nov 29, 2020 15:44:33 GMT -5
Eighteen inches. Counters with quartz countertops measure 35-¾", cabinets are 18" above the countertop. Everything professionally installed last year. I put quartz in the house I finally, mercifully, at last, sold just Wednesday. The day before we worked on a house on the Diversion Canal that had white quartzite, the natural stone. Not only is it startlingly beautiful, it is also translucent. You can look down into it at the inner structures. So cool. Well, the homeowner is an electrical engineer/electrical contractor. The house is a lighting showcase. He installed ultra-thin LED wafer panels under (counter tops) and behind (backsplash) the stone. It glows from within. One of the coolest things ever.
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Post by Marty on Nov 29, 2020 16:21:59 GMT -5
19 and three quarter, which might confirm my suspicion. We live in a prefab Wasau home built around '78. I've always suspected the kitchen counters were a bit lower than usual, just lower enough to bug me when I'm at the stove or washing dishes. I just look it up, and the usual counter height is 36 inches, ours is 35. That's enough of a difference to be annoying. I lived, for a short while, in a house from the early 1900s. The kitchen for that place was designed for a woman that was very short, countertops at 30", complete nightmare to work in. Didn't stay there very long.
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Post by david on Nov 29, 2020 16:30:37 GMT -5
We are slightly substandard at 17".
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Post by Dave Poor on Nov 29, 2020 17:29:29 GMT -5
16 and three quarters from the countertop to the bottom of the face of the cabinet. 36 even from the countertop to the linoleum.
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Post by John B on Nov 29, 2020 19:41:31 GMT -5
18 1/4", slightly less than 36" from the floor to the top of the counter.
In my KC house, the wife of the couple who lived there was unusually short, according to one neighbor. The bathroom counter was right around 31" high.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 29, 2020 19:53:02 GMT -5
Counter height is 90cm, cabinet left is 79cm above that, cabinets right 86cm. Over the fridge 20cm higher.
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Post by epaul on Nov 29, 2020 20:42:36 GMT -5
What?
Your counters are roughly five and half feet tall and the cabinets are only an inch or so off the countertop which is on the floor?
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