Most Common Cabinet Door Sizes

Most common overlay lengths on american cabinets are 1 2 inch and 1 inch overlays.

Most common cabinet door sizes.

Standard knob sizes are 1 1 4 or 1 3 8. Cabinet hardware sizing guide. To help you choose the correct size of decorative hardware we have put together some images showing the relative scale of different pieces on different cabinets. Most common is the 30 inch side single or double door wall cabinet which offers the best proportions for most storage needs.

Wall cabinet widths run from 9 to 48 inches in 3 inch increments though it is rare to install cabinets wider than 36 inches. Common cabinet hardware pull installation by size. Leaves little to no space between doors. Recessed pulls are available too.

All of the sizes i mentioned above so if you need to review that again. An 80 inch door is called a 6 8 door pronounced six eight because it s 6 8 tall. Standard base cabinet sizes. These fall into the cabinet category though they re very much a drawer fitting and not really suited to doors.

First let s look at the sizes of base cabinets. These cabinets need to be very sturdy in order to form the base for your countertops. Most cabinet pulls screw onto the surface of the door or drawer but recessed models require that a hole to be cut in the surface with a chisel or router and hence are much more difficult to fit. One of the most popular options is to pick one size and use it throughout your cabinetry.

Typically standard base cabinets measure 34 1 2 h and 36 h from the floor to the top of the countertop when a countertop is installed the toe kick portion of the cabinet is 4 1 2 h the standard door height is 24 h and the top drawer height is 6 h equaling 34 1 2 h total. These are not hard and fast rules but a guideline to get you started. This is the most common height for passage doors that lead from one room to another. There is no right or wrong size to choose but we do recommend choosing pulls that have at least a 3 3 4 center to center the distance between the screw holes.

Divide that difference by two to get each door s overlay length. 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. The most common overlay lengths on american cabinets are. Leaves some space between doors.