Kitchen cabinet under the sink

[Anonymous]

Hello,

We are redoing our kitchen and going with all drawer lower cabinets. What are your thoughts on the cabinet under the sink though? Would you also make it drawer, with a cut-out for the plumbing? Or would you leave it as a cabinet (with two doors)?

TYIA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello,

We are redoing our kitchen and going with all drawer lower cabinets. What are your thoughts on the cabinet under the sink though? Would you also make it drawer, with a cut-out for the plumbing? Or would you leave it as a cabinet (with two doors)?

TYIA!

I think the two doors are needed for plumbing repair space. Also some people store their kitchen trash can there. You may need extra space for a garbage disposal body and dishwasher plumbing.

These days some cabinet companies sell an undersink cabinet with a molded plastic floor to avoid flood damage. I wish I had that. Just a few small leaks over 20 years have damaged the interior finish of my cabinet. I bought a cut to fit under sink mat to cover over the floor but I wish I had the more sensibly constructed cabinet. Link below is to an example of this design.

https://www.merillat.com/coreguard/

[Anonymous]

Weathertech (the company that make car floor mats) makes a version for a sink cabinet.

https://www.weathertech.com/sinkmat.html

[Anonymous]

Cabinet is more practical for under the sink. A drawer will be ruined if you have a leak.

[Anonymous]

We recently competed a kitchen remodel. We went with cabinet with two doors for the sink. We wanted open space for plumbing and disposal. We tried a few interior shelving attachments but we didn’t like how they functioned. We ended up buying a rubber mat for the cabinet floor and put a small stand alone trash bin in the cabinet.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of a drawer there. Not practical at all.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes people will locate a drawer under a vanity sink, but I've never seen one below a kitchen sink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of a drawer there. Not practical at all.

Oh yeah, it is! It's exactly the same as not having one, except you can pull it out. It's basically like a tray with a cut out in the back.

OP, it's nice but at some point, you will need to pull it out to clean underneath it after a leak. So just be aware of that.

It is definitely something you can do without for cost purposes.

I would say it's like, slightly better than not having one. Slightly. Because the utility is traded off with the minor hassle when there's a leak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes people will locate a drawer under a vanity sink, but I've never seen one below a kitchen sink.

Yeah, sounds odd.
Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done.

[Anonymous]

Will you have a garbage disposal? That will take up most of the space that a drawer would go in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will you have a garbage disposal? That will take up most of the space that a drawer would go in.

Nobody in their right mind still uses a garbage disposal. They were pushed by plumbers to help stop up the smaller kitchen drain lines with food buildup faster.

Either compost food that isn't eaten, feed to animals, or flush it down toilets which are designed to handle large amounts of food waste.

[Anonymous]

I would have 2 doors for plumbing access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weathertech (the company that make car floor mats) makes a version for a sink cabinet.

https://www.weathertech.com/sinkmat.html

We love this company.