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Help with interior drawer heights

10 years ago

I thought I was going great, until I requested interior drawer measurements.

3 drawer stack:

top drawer interior height, 3.5 inches

both lower drawer heights, 7.5 inches

So....if I change the middle drawer to a 3.5 inch height, the bottom drawer should become 11.5. Correct?

Also, all 3 drawer interior heights combined need to equal 18.5 inches? Correct?

So.....I can do a 3.5, 5.5, and 9.5 combination?

Based on these measurements, how do I figure out the interior heights of a 30 inch tall base with 2 evenly split drawers?

Thanks much!

Comments (11)

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks for responding, Beachem. I'm doing Dynasty/Omega and am about 50/50. I got those measurement from her and realized they won't work. So, I'm trying to figure out what will, then she can check them again, to make sure.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    You have 30" of exterior dimension to work with for bases. It's all designed as a system, so that you have horizontal alignment all the way across the kitchen, all with 6" top drawers, etc. A 3 drawer stack is 1 6" drawer and 2 12". A 4drawer stack is 3 6" drawers and 1 12". You're not doing custom height drawers without moving up to Omega. And it is not worth the $$$. You can fit almost anything you want into a standard configuration.

  • 10 years ago

    Sophie, thank you.

    The measurements I have are much smaller. So, do I need to have them double checked? They are inset.

    4 drawer stack, exterior height 4 inches each, interior 3.5 inches each

  • 10 years ago

    What I learned with inset - if your's are painted, think long and hard about the heights - particularly the top row. As someone who isn't persnickety with flatware and utensils, I wouldn't be happy with "standard" first drawer depths. I am just not that careful and a lot of our utensils would hit and dent/ding/scratch the cabinet above the drawer if the first drawers were standard.

    Wendy thanked User
  • 10 years ago

    Thank you, Nightowl.

    My cooking utensils and knives were all shoved into a 4x11 inch drawer, seriously. Now, they'll be split between a 3.5x25 and 3.5x31.

    Flatware and baking utenisls were in a single 4x31 and now will be split among 2 3.5x31s an a 3.5x22.

    I think that should work?

  • 10 years ago

    So is the 3.5" height standard on a 6" frames drawer. If so, I may ask my cabinet maker to do them at 7" and adjust the lower ones accordingly. Does anyone with framed I set cabinets have issues with drawer depth?

    Wendy thanked Melissa Kroger
  • 10 years ago

    My old framed drawer was 4 inch interior height.

  • 10 years ago

    Make sure they are giving you clearance height. Many will have a drawer box that is a little shorter than the clearance.

    You lose about an inch of height clearance with undermount glides.

    Framed cabinets lose 1-1/2" for every rail. With insets some brands allow you to delete one, the one between the two lower drawers.

    A full subtop helps prevent things getting stuck behind him top rail.

    Some brands have a 4" toe space instead of 4-1/2". The extra half inch usually goes to the top drawer.

    Some brands that make both inset and overlay make the top drawer taller.

    Be extremely careful if/where you have top drawers of differing heights very hard to make look good.

    I don't know the specs for dynasty/omega. Maybe LWO will chime in.


    Wendy thanked jakuval
  • 10 years ago

    Just because a drawer is 6" does not mean that you can assume clearance without actual measuring or info from Dynasty.

    I just measures my old 6" drawer and the interior height is a smidgen above 3 1/4". These are full overlays.

    As Jakuval pointed out, you can't get custom measurements with Dynasty other than maybe increased depth. You would have to upgrade to Omega.

    Thats why I discussed in another thread that most people only do 3 drawers stacks for framed. The face frame eats up 3" and the stiles 1 1/2" each. You get more stiles when you get more drawers so your usable space keeps getting smaller.

    With 4 drawers, you need to subtract out 7 1/2" leaving you with 22.5" for splitting the interior height between 4 drawers.

    If the KD gave you total interior height of 18.5" for 3 drawers then you have to take into account allowance for bottom mount when you calculate 4 drawers.

    Wendy thanked beachem
  • 10 years ago

    Thanks you all!

    From what I gather from above.....

    reduced height bake area 30" w/ 2 drawers - 4.5" toe kick = 25.5" - 4.5" face and style = 21" - 2" glides = 19" / 2 drawers = 9.5 each drawer front - .5 difference exterior to interior = 9" interior height