How many drawers?

  • Erstellt am 2016-06-06 21:54:17

Payday

2016-06-15 20:18:39
  • #1
With electrical appliances, you can quite easily shop by yourself. First of all, this way you always get exactly the device you want, and secondly at the best price. Every manufacturer offers so many variants (and model years) for each device that the selection is basically overwhelming. However, there are often good all-rounders that don’t cost a fortune. For example, we found a Neff oven with pyrolysis at a reasonable price. The Construkta appliance without pyrolysis and fewer bells and whistles cost only €100 less. The current refrigerator from Liebherr with an ice cube compartment and only one plus in front of the "A" even cost less than the simpler older model (from Liebherr).

Under the countertop, we only have drawers ourselves. Even the trash bin is a drawer (Blanco Select 60/2). In the corner, there is a pot carousel. We only have 2x swing doors as wall cabinets for glasses and plates. On the living room side (peninsula), there are swing doors for coffee stuff that you maybe need once a year. (Here, the depth was not enough for drawers.) A 40cm pull-out pantry cabinet rounds off the kitchen right next to the oven at countertop height.

We have a countertop height of 100cm. And everyone who has cooked in our kitchen so far would choose a higher height next time (including small people). 90/92 or even 87 cm is mega out and, just like the toilet standardized for children, is set way too low.
 

Sebastian79

2016-06-15 20:22:37
  • #2
How can a working height be "out"? Such a thing is always individual - by the way, we have 93cm and are very satisfied with it... 100cm is out of the question for us - we have stood at that before. What is out, rather, are carousel cabinets because they are a waste of space
 

MarcWen

2016-06-15 20:33:24
  • #3


We are both quite tall and have taken 92 cm. 1 meter would definitely be too high.
 

Payday

2016-06-15 20:38:04
  • #4
and we stood in front of 92.5cm and had to bend down so low that anyone over 180cm tall basically only gets back problems. I don’t know why you’re supposed to bend down, although it can be done better. it’s just the habit from back then that basically everyone buys kitchens that are too low - simply because everyone else does it that way. of course, if both are 170cm tall, 100cm is too much, but with 2x 185cm height, 92cm is a joke. the advantages are of course only seen when you actually work with it. standing there for 10 seconds can’t really make the decision. but as you already say, everyone has to know for themselves. I can only say that most buy them too low because it was always done that way before. a typical other example: television. back then there were wild formulas like screen diagonal x 10 = optimal distance and such jokes so that everyone could somehow justify the ridiculously small TVs (or because there simply weren’t any bigger ones before) at some point, with a lot of effort, diagonal x 5 came along (80cm diagonal with 32" and then sitting 4 meters away...) and everyone was afraid that the TV would be too big. I can say that it almost works 1:1! sit just under 3 meters away and watch a 3-meter diagonal screen. that is NOT too close. it’s basically exactly the same story...
 

77.willo

2016-06-15 20:38:21
  • #5
1m is probably just ergonomically impractical for most women, whether in or out. Besides, these huge platform heights look rather old-school to me. I wanted to have as little of that as possible and specifically looked for tall bases.
 

Sebastian79

2016-06-15 20:41:16
  • #6
Isn't it – because height says absolutely nothing about that. Long legs? Short legs? You have to think further

And no one buys it just because it's always done that way... why do you have 100? Have you worked with that before?

By the way, we don't have to bend down...
 

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