Alex Molkentin

Field Notes

6 min

The case for drawers down low

Base cabinets with doors waste the back half of every shelf. Drawers give it back.

Base cabinets with doors waste the back half of every shelf. Drawers give it back.

White on White Oak, Colorado Front Range

Open a base cabinet with doors and you are looking at a cave. The back half of every shelf is dead storage you kneel to reach. Drawers change the math: full extension brings everything to you, heavy pots ride low, and the pan you use daily stops living on the stove. When we plan a kitchen, base drawers are the default and doors have to argue their way in.

Open a base cabinet with doors and you are looking at a cave. The back half of every shelf is dead storage you kneel to reach. Drawers change the math: full extension brings everything to you, heavy pots ride low, and the pan you use daily stops living on the stove. When we plan a kitchen, base drawers are the default and doors have to argue their way in.

PULL QUOTE

Doors have to argue their way in.

Doors have to argue their way in.

A kitchen proves itself slowly, through school mornings, holidays, and every meal in between. We build for that.

Alex Molkentin

Alex Molkentin

Third-generation Colorado builder and founder of Shadowline Cabinetry in Lyons. He designs, specifies, and installs every project the studio takes on, and stands behind the work locally.

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