You want cabinets that are large enough to hold all of the things you need but you don t want them to be too large because they can take over the entire space in your kitchen.
Upper kitchen cabinet sizes.
Base cabinets may have a single door double doors a series of drawers or a combination of a drawer and doors.
First let s look at the sizes of base cabinets.
Base cabinets wall cabinets and tall specialty cabinets all have their own range of standard sizes.
The standard depth of a base kitchen cabinet is 24 without a countertop and 25 to 26 with a countertop.
These cabinets need to be very sturdy in order to form the base for your countertops.
Standard kitchen cabinet sizes base cabinet sizes.
When choosing a size for base cabinets remember that the sizes are from floor to top of cabinet box they don t include the thickness of whatever countertop will sit atop the base cabinets.
Typically standard base cabinets measure 34 1 2 h and 36 h from the floor to the top of the countertop when a countertop is installed the toe kick portion of the cabinet is 4 1 2 h the standard door height is 24 h and the top drawer height is 6 h equaling 34 1 2 h total.
These are where you ll likely store things like glasses bowls and plates.
The upper cabinets in your kitchen are the first ones we ll talk about.