Thick mitered edge on countertop

[Anonymous]

We have planned for a thick island countertop from the beginning of our remodel. Our cabinet designer knew this, yet never discussed changing the cabinets to accommodate the countertop. So, we can't do the standard drop down. We can lift the countertop up and do a dropped down edge though. This will raise the island up 3 cm more than the surrounding countertops. It also means that we will have the mitered edge surrounding our farmhouse sink located in the island. On one hand, it will make it look as if it really is a larger slab. On the other hand, it does not appear to be the way it is typically done and that causes concern. Any thoughts on this?

[Anonymous]

I think it's stupid to make believe it's thick. I hate the dropdown edges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's stupid to make believe it's thick. I hate the dropdown edges.

Care to share a photo of your fabulous kitchen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's stupid to make believe it's thick. I hate the dropdown edges.

Care to share a photo of your fabulous kitchen?

I have a large 6 x 8 granite island. It's 3cm standard thick. Don't try to fake it just go with standard thickness.

[Anonymous]

We have a thicker look, mitered edge for an interesting stone we have on a small island (no sinks). We love how the veining continues across the corner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's stupid to make believe it's thick. I hate the dropdown edges.

Care to share a photo of your fabulous kitchen?

I have a large 6 x 8 granite island. It's 3cm standard thick. Don't try to fake it just go with standard thickness.

Ours will be built up to 6cm. We will have a very high end, semi modern kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a thicker look, mitered edge for an interesting stone we have on a small island (no sinks). We love how the veining continues across the corner.

Did they lower your drawers/doors in order to build the countertop down or did they raise it to allow space to build down? With our configuration the island will actually be 3 cm higher than all other countertops.

[Anonymous]

Why would you want a 6cm thick granite countertop? That sounds silly.

[Anonymous]

Don't do that. It looks terrible. Pick a different edge.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know they sell 2cm countertops? We looked around a lot before getting ours a few months ago and 3cm was very standard

[Anonymous]

OP here. Do a search on Houzz at thick countertops. My style is "transitional". I'm not sure why this is such a foreign concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have planned for a thick island countertop from the beginning of our remodel. Our cabinet designer knew this, yet never discussed changing the cabinets to accommodate the countertop. So, we can't do the standard drop down. We can lift the countertop up and do a dropped down edge though. This will raise the island up 3 cm more than the surrounding countertops. It also means that we will have the mitered edge surrounding our farmhouse sink located in the island. On one hand, it will make it look as if it really is a larger slab. On the other hand, it does not appear to be the way it is typically done and that causes concern. Any thoughts on this?

Do you have any appliances in the island in addition to the sink? If so, you will have to raise the countertop when you build up the edge so the appliances will fit under the edge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you want a 6cm thick granite countertop? That sounds silly.

Not the OP - but not a real 6 cm countertop - just the look of one with a turned down edge. 6cm thickness of a large stone island countertop would crack the floor joists underneath if they aren't reinforced or sized accordingly to carry the weight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have planned for a thick island countertop from the beginning of our remodel. Our cabinet designer knew this, yet never discussed changing the cabinets to accommodate the countertop. So, we can't do the standard drop down. We can lift the countertop up and do a dropped down edge though. This will raise the island up 3 cm more than the surrounding countertops. It also means that we will have the mitered edge surrounding our farmhouse sink located in the island. On one hand, it will make it look as if it really is a larger slab. On the other hand, it does not appear to be the way it is typically done and that causes concern. Any thoughts on this?

Do you have any appliances in the island in addition to the sink? If so, you will have to raise the countertop when you build up the edge so the appliances will fit under the edge.

Yes, a dishwasher. It seems that they way the fabricator wants to do it will work fine, especially considering our lack of preparation for it, but not exactly what we were expecting.

Did your cabinet designer ask you anything about your countertop? I feel like she should have taken that into consideration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have planned for a thick island countertop from the beginning of our remodel. Our cabinet designer knew this, yet never discussed changing the cabinets to accommodate the countertop. So, we can't do the standard drop down. We can lift the countertop up and do a dropped down edge though. This will raise the island up 3 cm more than the surrounding countertops. It also means that we will have the mitered edge surrounding our farmhouse sink located in the island. On one hand, it will make it look as if it really is a larger slab. On the other hand, it does not appear to be the way it is typically done and that causes concern. Any thoughts on this?

Do you have any appliances in the island in addition to the sink? If so, you will have to raise the countertop when you build up the edge so the appliances will fit under the edge.

Yes, a dishwasher. It seems that they way the fabricator wants to do it will work fine, especially considering our lack of preparation for it, but not exactly what we were expecting.

Did your cabinet designer ask you anything about your countertop? I feel like she should have taken that into consideration.

I'm the pp who wrote this. I haven't done this to my own kitchen, but I am an architect. There are a few ways to make this work: You would have to custom design the cabinets to lower where the tops of the doors and drawers open to accommodate the deeper edge such as increasing the size of the top rail (or custom design the cabinets to reduce the toe kick height) OR you will need to add plywood strips or layers of plywood to raise the countertop the correct dimension so the bottom of the edge sits slightly above the tops of the drawers and doors of the cabinets in which case your island counter will be higher than the perimeter countertops. I would think that customizing the cabinets could be costly which might be why your cabinet designer didn't bring it up - especially if you selected semi custom cabinetry. The amount you will have to raise the countertop depends on whether you have face frame or full overlay cabinets.