Anyone tall bought a kitchen that has a higher than standard works surface?
I built one in my campervan and both the wife and I prefer it. In need of a new kitchen in the house now so any ideas would be welcome.
I had one built about 2'' higher which means I'm not bending over so much.
We had a new kitchen last year. We didn't bother going with higher worktops in the end mostly because of the complications with cooker height, but pineland who made our kitchen were more than happy to make the units taller if we so wished. I'd recommend them 100%, they were faultless from start to finish and we love our new kitchen.
You can cap a standard height one, *based on ours is a bit higher than normal and when I investigated they had used the old units, new doors and a new worktop that sat on the old worktop with the sink and cooker hob raised
I did the opposite for my daughter who is in a wheelchair. It's pretty easy to make the surface higher, the standard legs have around 50mm of movement, but you could always pack underneath them to make the units higher, then custom cut end panels for the plinths.
I would suggest if you do make them higher to do it to a suitable height that can be reduced later without too much trouble - i.e, if you have a tiled wall, make sure you keep some tiles that can be put in the gap if you ever drop the height.
I've recently done our kitchen and we have 3 work areas each at a different height. The cooker and sink are on a 3m run at standard 900mm height, the coffee station with the machine and grinders etc is higher and the big island is a lot lower than standard as Mrs BigJohn wanted it to be just right for mixing pastry and kneading bread, which it is. It all works very well.
2" blocks under the feet?
Hence raising your horizontal datum line for the height of the worktop around the room.
Fit the rest as normal.
You would need to source or make deeper kickboards as the gap will be larger / non standard.
Ideally I'd like to have extra cupboard space than a larger void under the units.
What sort of worktop height are you looking for?
If you raise the unit and fit larger plinths, your standard size end panels (if you need them) aren't going to fit as they're usually 900mm max, so you'd need tower panels cut down.
Normal height is 150+720+ worktop, but there is slight variations with suppliers.
You can just lift the worktop up and fit a filler out of pelmet or panel, but if you've got tower units that dictate the wall unit height, you'll loose the space I between the wall unit and worktop.
6'5" here. When I fitted our new kitchen I just but some blocks under the feet of the units (Ikea kitchen) to raise the height. Means there is a bit of a gap at the top of the kick board but unless you get on your hands and knees you can't see it.
Good question OP, I've wondered if this is possible for years. I'm probably average height, but I'm considerably taller than a typical kitchen's target audience of your average 1920s grandmother and fishing around in a sink that's down near my knees somewhere does my head in.
When I built the camper van kitchen it was all my own construction except for some Ikea drawers. The drawers are on 90mm blocks and at the top a 120mm plinth/panel that provides room for the underside of the hob. The worktop is about 1100mm high.
Given that most appliances are designed for standard units it is always going to be harder to achieve.
IKEA base units go down lower to the floor, their plinths are 80mm. If you chocked them up to and put in standard plinths which are 150mm high, job done!
I had a new kitchen put in a few years ago and had the units built higher than standard, they are 95cm high now including the worktop - as far as i can remember the cupboard space is the same and the plinth was just a bit higher. Great for food prep etc...