standard kitchen cabinet depth

Have you gone to a store to look at ready-made cabinets, or are you in the middle of the desert?

Have you gone to a store to look at ready-made cabinets, or are you in the middle of the desert?

Good point...I was wondering how somebody who has supposedly built "alot of kitchen cabinets" doesn't know how wide they are...Maybe it's just me....

The frame itself is 24". Add the drawer and it's about another 1". Any standard countertop always has some type of overhang.

Except me. What the hell is a 'carcase'?

Possibly it is just you. I have in fact looked around, and found different measurements. Besides, if I went to home depot instead of posting here, you might have had to wait a couple more days to get a chance to be a smartass with some other post. So, as I see it, we have a win-win situation.

"Joe" wrote in news:GJWdnUAKLf5XSdbWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

I had my cabinets installed away from the wall with a countertop depth of

Also sometimes spelled carcass. It is the frame or body of the cabinet.

It is an alternate spell "Carcass (furniture), the part of a piece of furniture that holds inlays" but I'm not sure about that use?

Possibly it is just you. I have in fact looked around, and found different measurements. Besides, if I went to home depot instead of posting here, you might have had to wait a couple more days to get a chance to be a smartass with some other post. So, as I see it, we have a win-win situation.

Well that was kind of of a stupid question for a cabinetmaker to be asking on a home repair newsgroup....You would think somebody who has supposedly built MANY kitchen cabinets would know the standards.. LOL...Yes I know , I'm being a smartass again for pointing out the obvious...Oh well...Carry on...Oh , you forgot to insult the poster who asked if you lived in the desert...I know you will rectify that for us...Thanks....

LOL...Good one...

I like this idea except I think I would opt to make the cabinets full depth and have some sort of sliding shelf arrangement to get to the area in back when you need to.

Another idea I like is to install the dishwasher on top of a 12 inch high cabinet. This allows you to load the dishwasher without having to bend over so far. The down side is that it raises the height of the countertop over the dishwasher but that makes a perfect spot for the microwave.

Joe wrote the following:

A misspelled 'carcass'

Duh, da box :)

I write it as carcase, even thought it is pronounced the same as carcass. My cabinet bodies are things of beauty and alive - hardly a carcass. ;)

Carcase is an excepted alternate spelling for carcass and the Brits have been using it for a long time.