How to Design Kitchen Cabinets with Mock-Ups
Learn how to build full-scale cardboard models to help visualize your new kitchen space.
When they were house-hunting, Craig and Amanda Zehnder were immediately attracted to a 1901 farmhouse in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. Although it was in great shape for its age, the kitchen had been gutted in the early 1980s and remodeled in a style that was deficient in practicality and aesthetics. The Zehnders wanted to redo the space to look like a farmhouse kitchen, as well as make it more functional. The key to enhancing functionality turned out to be moving a stairway whose door opened into the kitchen a few feet to the east and then moving the door to the hall. After that change was made, Craig made mock-ups of the cabinets and counters out of cardboard to make sure the proportions of the new kitchen were correct.
Online memberscan read theFine HomebuildingMagazine companion article,From Cardboard Mock-Ups to Kitchen Cabinets.
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That was like, .1 seconds of cardboard cutouts lol.
Nice kitchen! Great job man!