Kitchen bar depth

14 years ago

Hi all!

Someone here gave me a flash of inspiration. It was the thread about what you have on your counters. I hate visual clutter, since I have crap all over the place. It's getting better, though. :)

So! I have a very nice microwave base cabinet which I built in the bottom of an in-progress credenza. BTW, "Very nice" means I built it myself and you can't tell I did. But you can see the microwave the minute you walk into the dining room, there at the end of the kitchen.

I want to take out the base cabinet under my peninsula and put the microwave cab there. It's another, future project, because I'm going to have to cut the cabinet out from the peninsula and restructure the lazy susan. I found the latter on the side of the road and had to build the cabinet around it. But I digress.

The question I have is how much room should there be under the counter for knees? The microwave cab is only 21" deep because of the area for which I first built it. It would give me about 9" for two stools (I think).

Is that enough space?

Thanks!

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Comments (3)

melissastar
14 years ago
So, you'd have a 9" overhang? Not enough,I'm afraid. Some folks get by with 12" and say they are fine. But more say they need 15" to be comfortable and not have to sit with their knees turned to the side.

I'm not absolutely sure I'm understanding correctly though...if not, you might want to rephrase to clarify. Hope this helps!
CEFreeman
Original Author
14 years ago
No, you're understanding.
The very first image was having to turn sideways to sit there.
That's what I'd want to avoid.

I'll still probably use that shallower cabinet since it's beautiful, but no stools.

Thanks!
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leela4
14 years ago
We have a bar overhang in our daylight basement that is 9''. It was never built for sitting and eating in mind (it's my material cutting area), but during our remodel that was our only eating area. I'm afraid melissastar is right-it's really not enough room, and I'm not a very tall person (5' 4''). We have 13'' of overhang at our new bar area in the kitchen and that is ample for us.