Yikes. Having made the mistake, you'd think they would have gone for a recessed pull...

But fillers are just so........low end. Don't you know custom cabinets ''use every inch'' and never âÂÂâÂÂwaste'' space with fillers. Even if the drawers won't open. Or scrape the wall.

hhhhhhaaha

In my aunt's antique row house in DC, you had to push the fridge door in some with your butt to open a drawer perpendicular to it to get the drawer past the fridge handle.

I had never opened the drawer before (evidently) because once I walked into the kitchen to find the drawer open, way past the fridge handle. It stopped me cold.

I looked around to see if anyone was home. Who might be playing a joke on me, or how the heck did that happen! and left it...

When my aunt arrived home, she laughed so hard at me that she couldn't talk. Then she told me the butt trick.

A spacer would have prevented all my confusion. Scarred me for life.

Speaking of fillers, how wide should they be between cabinets and a fridge? And do you need them between cabinets and stove? Or at all?

This is one of the reasons our kitchen needed to be redone...of course we moved it to new space, but can I tell you I didn't notice this until after I moved in? This allowed us to open the drawer around the fridge!

tomatofreak - you don't need fillers between cabs and stove or cabs and 'fridge if you have drawers. If you have doors that need to open more than 90 degrees, a small filler may be desirable on the hinge side.

Where you may need them, besides that horrible inside corner, is next to walls where doors need to open more than 90 degrees or to allow drawer faces to clear the door molding

Another spot may be in the uppers where you have a shallower depth cabinet next to a full depth cabinet like a pantry, although my upper next to the fridge doesn't and I never actually noticed until now.

Where am I missing?

Good info and great illustration. I'll keep it in mind as we put this kitchen together.