Progress Update and a Few Questions

16 years ago

First, I want to thank all of you here at GW for all the info, advice and moral support you've provided over the last year as I struggled to give birth to my dream kitchen.

My demo started Oct 7, and the new floor took 2 almost weeks - which we had planned on. We had about 750 sq ft of tile installed in our family room, and kitchen (open plan), and installed under tile heat. We used the loose wire rather than mats because our kitchen has a some strange angles and the mats were a lot more expensive. DH and I (mostly DH) laid the wire ourselves, and I'm relieved that he is still speaking to me, especially since he wasn't too keen on the floor heating.

The cabinets went in over the past 2 days, and it was a big relief to see everything in place - nice big aisles, and the contractor was able to squeeze a downdraft behind the full depth drawers that are under my cooktop. I will have a 36 inch induction cooktop in a 36 inch cabinet.

My granite templat is scheduled for Friday, and the counters should go in late the following week. You may recall that I wanted honed VA Mist, but all the slabs I founfd locally were really dull and ugly, with little or no white "mist". I did find some polished slabs that were beautiful and a fabricator who can hone them for me so that is what we decided to do. Can't wait.

But there are few things in my kitchen that need to be tweaked, and I may need some help from my friends here at GW. I have some hingle issues. My cabinets are full overlay, and there are a few places where the door will bang into a wall or refrigerator panel when opened. Is there a hinge that will keep them from opening more than 90 degrees?

Also, I have one glass front cabinet - it is an angled outside corner cabinet that isn't large enough for much of anything except display. But the large hinges show right through the glass, and it will look even worse if I put an interior light in that cabinet as planned. seems like there should be a better hinge option that won't be as ugly.

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artemis78
16 years ago
Congrats on all that work! (You're making me feel so much better about our schedule, too---I get nervous reading about all the kitchens here that take months when ours is scheduled to only take a few weeks, so I'm glad to hear about other kitchens successfully on the same track!)

On the hinges, I know that both types (90 degree opening and hinges made to "hide") do exist for frameless and inset so I imagine they do for overlay too, but unfortunately don't know what they are---so not much help except to say keep looking for them because I know they make them. Good luck in the home stretch!
Buehl
16 years ago
I'm glad to see you're making real progress...congratulations! We decided against heating the tile floor in our Kitchen/Foyer/PR, but will definitely do it when we remodel our MBA...someday (probably post-college for the kids...only 8 years away...time flies when children are growing up!!!)

How wide a door frame do you have on your glass doors? The hinges don't show on ours...but we have a 3" frame. Do you have a picture?

For the cabinet doors banging, we just put those very small clear/transparent "bumpers" on the refrigerator frame and oven cabinet frame where the adjacent upper cabinet doors might hit. They seem to work well. Do you have filler b/w the different depth cabinets?
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numbersjunkie
Original Author
16 years ago
Buehl - Not sure how wide the frame is, but I know it isn't 3". I don't think it would be as noticable if it wasn't for the fact that the cabinet is a triangle shape. But I have been searching for a better hinge option and it looks like we will be able to find something.

The bumper is an option for the doors that bump, but it would actually have to go on the wall above a doorway opening. But I would rather have a better solution, since I had the bumper in my old kitchen and it eventually fell off and went unnoticed until the damage was done. BTW, there is filler there, but not enough to ensure that the door will not swing wide and crack against the wall.
leela4
16 years ago
We have some cabinet doors that would bang against a door frame or even (in the corner) each other if the opener were careless, so I asked for some solution and our cabinet installer guy came up with a little chain on the inside that limits the distance it can open. Works well so far.
red_eared_slider86
16 years ago
Have you shopped at Woodworkers' Hardware? They have all kinds of neat stuff. Here's a link to their hinges.

Here is a link that might be useful: Woodworkers' Hardware door hinges