Blind Base Cabinet Installation

Remove all cabinet doors drawers and hardware before installing base cabinets in a kitchen.

Blind base cabinet installation.

Right blind d adjacent wall cabinet. While you may think that they are called blind corner cabinets because you reach in and feel around blindly for what you need they are instead called this becuase of the missing door and the blind side of the cabinet. Wait to add drawers doors and hardware until after the countertop is attached. Doing so before can help prevent damaging the wall or the back of the cabinet.

You ll note some wasted space to the left and right of the angled drawers dead zones built into the drawer to create 90 degree angles with. Blind corner accessories. Ideally you would mount the blind corner cabinet out far enough so that the panel exposure next to the door is equal to the width of the filler strip. Usually the adjoining base cabinet will require a filler strip so that it s door and drawer can open fully.

We forget about how much kitchen countertop space is wasted above those base cabinet blind corners and below wall cabinets and you could do all sorts of things with it. Bathroom vanity. If your wall bows out a lot shim it before you hang the cabinet. In the first option a blind base installation the cabinet on one wall the blind base extends almost to the corner and then a standard base cabinet installed on the adjacent wall butts into it.

See the latest in cabinet accessory innovations. Leave it that way. A blind base cabinet is a piece used in a corner to transition from one wall to another without leaving a large empty void space in a corner. It is also used when a traditional corner cabinet such as a lazy susan is not preferred or won t fit the available space.

Blind corner cabinets are the cabinets in the corner of the kitchen known as the bermuda triangle of kitchens. By width cabinet actual cabinet width actual cabinet width recommended installation door opening width bb36 30 36 39 12 bb42 36 42 45 15 bb48 48 48 51 21 actual cabinet width see recommended installation dimensions door opening width filler top view application shown. Tall pantry.