About | Kitchen Cabinet Hub
About Kitchen Cabinet Hub

Kitchen cabinets, explained plainly and in the right order.

Kitchen Cabinet Hub is a guide site for US homeowners and DIYers. It covers kitchen cabinet sizes, costs, painting, installation, organization and design, one question at a time, starting with the measurements.

Guides only. Nothing is sold here Written for US kitchen sizes
Why sizes come firstStart here
  • Base cabinet height34.5 in
  • Base cabinet depth24 in
  • Finished counter height36 in
  • Wall cabinet depth12 in

Most cabinet mistakes start with a wrong measurement, not a wrong style. That is why the guides here start with standard sizes before costs, colours or layouts.

34.5 inStandard base cabinet height, before the countertop
24 inStandard base cabinet depth, box only
12 inStandard wall cabinet depth
36 inStandard finished counter height
01 · Why this site exists

One cabinet question at a time, answered properly.

Kitchen cabinets look simple from the front. The questions start when you measure, price, paint or try to fit one into a real room. This site works through those questions in the order they actually come up.

Measure first

Every topic starts with the standard size or the measurement to take. A guide that skips the numbers cannot help you order, fit or compare anything.

Costs in the open

Where a topic has a price side, the guide sets out the range and what moves it, instead of one headline number with nothing behind it.

Steps in order

How-to guides are written in the order the work is done, prep first. No step is left for the reader to guess between two others.

What can go wrong

The common mistakes sit inside the guide, next to the step they belong to, so they are seen before the work starts and not after.

02 · How we work

How each guide is put together.

The same four steps sit behind every guide on the site, whether it is a two minute size check or a full painting walkthrough.

1

Start with the question

Each guide answers one clear question, the way a homeowner would type it, and stays on that question from start to finish.

2

Check the facts

Sizes, materials and cost ranges are checked against standard US cabinet dimensions and current sources before anything is written around them.

3

Write it in order

The guide is written in short, plain steps, with the measurement or decision each step depends on stated inside that step.

4

Review before publishing

Before a guide goes live it is read once more for wrong numbers, missing steps and anything that reads like a claim the site cannot back up.

03 · What we cover

Browse by topic.

These are the topic categories set up on this site.

04 · Who is behind it

The person behind the guides.

Every guide is written and reviewed by the person named below.

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[ Founder name ]

[ Role or one line intro, for example: homeowner, DIYer, or cabinet professional. ]

[ Short bio: two or three plain sentences on who writes the guides, what hands-on cabinet work they have done, and why they started this site. No claims are made here until this text is replaced with the real bio. ]

05 · Latest guides

The newest guides on the site.

The newest guides published on the site, starting with the most recent.

06 · Quick answers

About this site, in short.

Kitchen cabinets only. Sizes and measurements, costs, painting, installation, organization and design, written for US homeowners and DIYers.
No. This is a guide site. Nothing is sold here and no installation or fitting work is offered, so a guide can say a cheaper option is the right one when it is.
Yes. Dimensions follow standard US cabinet sizing, given in inches: 34.5 in base cabinet height, 24 in base depth and 12 in wall cabinet depth, unless a guide says otherwise.
One question per guide. The facts and numbers are checked first, the guide is written in the order the work is done, and it is reviewed once more before it is published.
It gets fixed in the guide itself. Sizes and prices change, and a guide that is corrected is worth more than one that quietly stays wrong.
Start at the beginning

Start with the sizes. Everything else gets easier.

Head back to the homepage for the standard size explorer, or read the newest guides as they are published.