Kitchen Walls Not Straight - Ideas Please

[Jazz1966]

I have a strange problem that I would appreciate advice on.
I am having a kitchen extension done.
The old kitchen is say x cm wide.
The kitchen extension can only be x-20cm wide due to an external wall - see my attached drawing.
The difference between the two is 20cm.
When kitchen units are fitted, this will look odd as the new kitchen units will protrude out 20cm more than the old kitchen ones.
How can this be overcome?
Will I have to have a 20cm wall partition made in the old kitchen?
Or will I have to have kitchen units of different depths in the old kitchen compared to the new extension?

 

[Knave of Hearts]

Are you sure it's not your neighbour having the kitchen extension?

Seriously, we need to know the dimensions of the old and the new kitchen.
20cm in a 2.5 metre wide kitchen is a different kettle of fish to 20cm in a 5metre wide kitchen, with space in length for a small peninsula, or some other method to disguise the difference.

Units can come in 300mm deep and 460mm deep.

 

[Jazz1966]

Are you sure it's not your neighbour having the kitchen extension?

Seriously, we need to know the dimensions of the old and the new kitchen.
20cm in a 2.5 metre wide kitchen is a different kettle of fish to 20cm in a 5metre wide kitchen, with space in length for a small peninsula, or some other method to disguise the difference.

Units can come in 300mm deep and 460mm deep.

The dimensions are:
1. New kitchen extension 5m wide by 2.8m.
1. Previous kitchen 5.2m wide by 3m.

 

[Notch7]

Just set the units 200mm out on the right hand side so the line up to the front edge and put in a deeper worktop and side cheek.

 

[Jazz1966]

Just set the units 200mm out on the right hand side so the line up to the front edge and put in a deeper worktop and side cheek.

Thank you for that. If the units are put 200mm out on the right hand side, will it not be the case that the back of the units will not touch the back wall as they will be 20cm out? Will this mean the creation of a 20cm partition wall?

 

[mrrusty]

Will this mean the creation of a 20cm partition wall?

No, it'll just be a 20cm bigger void behind the backpanel of the unit, or you could get some non-standard carcasses made up with extra depth

 

[jj4091]

Standard kitchen cabinet dimensions in the UK generally follow these measurements: base cabinets are typically 720mm high and 560mm deep (excluding the worktop), with common widths of 300mm, 400mm, 600mm, 800mm, and 1000mm. Wall cabinets usually have a standard depth of 300mm and come in heights of 575mm, 720mm, or 900mm, with widths mirroring the base cabinet options.
So you could fit legs to wall units in the extension side of the kitchen and just have a 60mm gap ehind them. But you would probably have to have your hob somewhere else.

 

[Deluks]

To maximise the space, fit a full height floor to ceiling unit as the first unit in the new kitchen, flush with the corner, then build the units in the old kitchen back to the old wall. Where it meets the new kitchen just treat it as if you were fitting the kitchen up to the corner of the room.

To make it flow continuously with breaking up the worktop, building out the wall will be easier, stud wall with 18mm ply under the plasterboard (easier to fix into) insulation behind for a bit of sound deadening between you and the next room.

Bearing in mind you might not get a worktop long enough to flow continuously from one end of the run to the other, it might be an idea to put your fridge/freezer either side of the wall, to break up the space.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I'd just follow the two walls and have a kink in the whole lot. I don't see the issue, just as long as it's done carefully. In fact it would visually break up what would otherwise look pretty boring. It will make it more interesting, embrace it and make a feature of it.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Many people wouldn't be able to reach the back of 800mm deep worktops. My desk's 800mm, and that looks unusually deep. I can only just reach the back of it and I'm 6 foot tall.