I just realized today that standard depth for uppers is 12”, so i am also wondering about this. Thanks for posting the question!

I don't mind and they don't look out of place/proportion but I do most of my prep at the peninsula. Rest of family has no problems with our snack/toaster/microwave/coffee area with the 15" cabinets above.

I don't have Ikea but have 15" uppers. I like the extra storage and use the counterspace there a lot without noticing that they're deeper. I do prep more in the area where there are no uppers, but I don't know if that would be different if I had 12" uppers.

I had my uppers made 13". I thought 15" was too deep too.

The best thing to do is to go to an ikea and look at their display kitchens and see what you think. I do believe there were several threads about this back when Sektion was new.

I like my 15" uppers but I do not have a small or closed in kitchen. I do not notice them being in the way. I hung them 20" above the counters. (I think standard is around 18").

If you have the space and are worried about it, you can bump out the base cabinets. We did that by adding blocking to the studs where the lower rail woul go. A slightly deeper counter can be a plus too.

Many plates today are do large, deeper cabinets are needed. I have inset spdoirs and measured very carefully before ordering!

I have Ikea 12” my kitchen and my daughter has the 15” in her tiny kitchen. I’ve not really noticed a difference and certainly don’t see the it as a problem. As Writersblock suggested it’s best you go see them for yourself.

We had 15” deep uppers in our old kitchen. I never felt closed in or felt like the counter space was lacking. I never actually even knew they were 15” deep though (there when we bought the house) until we moved and the normal 12” deep uppers seemed so small! I thought our rental and then our new house had abnormally marrow cabinets! All the sudden our plates were bumping the doors and we couldn’t fit as much. Our GC told us that the old house had to have had 15” deep uppers. We are talking about doing that in our remodel. If the cost difference is something that is within budget I would definately go 15”.

Hmm, I said upthread that there were older threads about this, but they seem to be from the period when GW was losing posts all the time, because they aren't here now.

Anyway, the overall gist was that a couple of people didn't like them, but most people didn't find it noticeable, other than the extra space inside.

We've had Sektion uppers lining our narrow galley kitchen since 2015. The Depth doesn't bother me. I'm 5'8" tall and we set the uppers a bit high at 20" above the counter because of our UCL.

We DIY'd the kitchen, so the ease of assembly and install was far more important than upper cabinet depth. YMMV.

UCL is always recommended, but for 15" depth cabinets it is almost required especially if using the minimum 18" height off counter. Also, the 30" wall cabs seem a little stubby for the end cabs for us, so removed the soffit to put in 40". It looks more appealing to us. I agree the corner cabinets now are huge and we've debated on using a blind cab in the corner instead, but it is now getting lighting treatment inside.

Our outlets are set to standard height off the counter which still work, but a taller person may not appreciate the deeper cabs. Be careful crowding windows and door openings with the deeper cabs also, they do give a slight tunnel affect that we expected and do notice.

As far as added storage, it was a great improvement and worth making the adjustments.

Tony, thanks for that info - very helpful. We would love to see pics of your kitchen if you would be comfortable sharing them.

Blondelle, UCL = Under Cabinet Lighting

Yikes! Thank you, Sophie. That is all very good to know for planning purposes. I wonder why ikea went with 15” uppers in light of all these potential issues. I also wonder if their badged vent hood and OTR microwave have different specs to account for these particular challenges. Easy enough to check, so I will do that when I have some time.

There is no federal governing requirement for outlet height above counter, but local may govern. Just from experience and likely from ADA recommendation, we typically put them 44" above floor level when a 24" depth counter is encountered. Moving them up and down will not violate anything unless there is a local req. Moving them right/left will affect distance between them that must be met. My kitchen is in middle of remodel. I just hung all our cabs over last week and counters were measured for today.

We had yellowing golden oak cabs beforehand and the deeper IKEA off-white color does help with reducing the enclose or tunnel feeling. Our previous cabs were closer to 13" and IKEA depth is technically less than 15 so we are closer to 2" depth change.

This site has been invaluable to us so trying to give back.

Oops yes I have a metal spacer to bring my range hood forward to meet the 15" uppers. I was worried about it before the remodel and discussed with GC, but wasn't hard to solve, just had to plan for it. I'd actually forgotten how we fixed it until I saw Sophie's post and had to go look!