We put an offer in on a home and are waiting to hear back, but in the meantime, I have a question about the property.
The house has an eat in kitchen and while the dining area is spacious, the kitchen area is small and galley style. It has a peninsula separating the dining and cooking area, and above that is a set of cupboards hanging from the ceiling. Does this type of kitchen or cabinet arrangement have a name? I am trying to find something similar to it online, but do not know what to search for.
It closes off the cook from the rest of the room, and we eventually would like to change the layout to open it up a bit, but in the meantime, I would like to find out how others design around it!
Thanks for any info!
K. - they are just kitchen cabinets...they act as a room partition - they are free-hanging or "bulk head" cabinets...
this link might help you!
http://www.ehow.com/how_12213959_hang-cabinets-over-islan...
good luck! congrats on the new house!
I would probably refer to them as ceiling mounted kitchen cabinets.
We always called ours overhead or over-the-counter cabinets in my parents' house growing up. They did remove theirs and it made a HUGE difference in opening up the room. They also removed the peninsula and put in an island (along with other major remodels). It's so much nicer now.
To make it look a little nicer (we had those overhead cabinets for 20+ years before the remodel), my mom hung decorative cookie-mold type things (don't know exactly what they were) on the family room side. It was much nicer to have something to look at up there than it was to just see the blank back of the cupboards.
Like this?
http://www.houzz.com/photos/83241/Designer-Challenge-Winn...
I googled 'Suspended cabinets'
You could open it up by placing see threw doors one both sides, or on one side, and clear plexiglass on the back side.
It's a pass-through.
ETA: here are ideas for pass through re-dos:
http://www.houzz.com/kitchen-pass-through
Yeah, that type of cabinet arrangement has a name -- UGLY.
There are no good ways to design around those, the best thing to do is have them removed as soon as possible, and place your cabinets somewhere else.
I don't know what they are called, but it sure opens the place up to remove them!
I always called it an "island". I typed in Kitchen Island and looked images. Try to see if it's what you are describing.
I'm trying to picture what you described. Could it be what they call a butler's pantry? That is a cabinet lined passageway from kitchen to dining room. But I don't that there is anything specific about how the cabinets are built in that case.
