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