Upper Kitchen Cabinet Sizes

Standard base cabinet sizes.

Upper kitchen cabinet sizes.

Base cabinets may have a single door double doors a series of drawers or a combination of a drawer and doors. These are where you ll likely store things like glasses bowls and plates. When choosing a size for base cabinets remember that the sizes are from floor to top of cabinet box they don t include the thickness of whatever countertop will sit atop the base cabinets. A standard base kitchen cabinet will measure about 34 1 2 high and 35 to 36 high from your kitchen floor with a countertop.

You want cabinets that are large enough to hold all of the things you need but you don t want them to be too large because they can take over the entire space in your kitchen. These cabinets need to be very sturdy in order to form the base for your countertops. The standard depth of a base kitchen cabinet is 24 without a countertop and 25 to 26 with a countertop. It all depends on your design needs the standard size of a base cabinet is 34 5 inches tall without the countertop and 36 inches with the countertop.

First let s look at the sizes of base cabinets. Base cabinets wall cabinets and tall specialty cabinets all have their own range of standard sizes.