In my planned kitchen remodel I'm interested in hanging a couple of cabinets from a soffit between the dining room and the kitchen. The lower cabinets would serve as a buffet and the upper cabinets as lighted china display that would be accessible from both the kitchen and the dining room. The type of cabinets I'm wanting to use in the remodel would be the European frameless style, (Kitchencraft or Ikea or something similar) and I know that most cabinets get their strength and squarability from the cabinet backing--which if I choose a door on each side would be absent. So, how would you go about achieving the necessary strength and rigidity in double sided glass doored cabinets? What about using glass shelving that rests on metal supports of some kind? (I would prefer the glass shelving for the display aspect.) Would that be strong enough? I was planning on using stock cabinets and doing the install ourselves rather than a custom cabinet builder, but if retrofitting stock cabinets isn't the best idea, then I think we've got enough tools on board to buy the doors and some end panels and fabricate whatever's needed ourselves for this one portion of the project.
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19 years ago