Notes from the workshop
Practical articles on German kitchen construction, dimensions, shipping and planning for homes abroad.
Frameless or face-frame: how German cabinets are built
Why German kitchens use frameless construction, how the 32 mm system works, and what it means for storage and design in an American home.
6 min readImporting a German kitchen to the United States
What happens between approved drawings and an installed German kitchen in the US: production, crating, container shipping, customs and appliances.
5 min readPlanning a show kitchen and a working kitchen in a UAE villa
How to plan the two kitchens of a villa in Abu Dhabi or Dubai: the show kitchen for guests and the working kitchen for daily cooking at scale.
4 min readThe 600 mm grid: German kitchen dimensions explained
Standard German kitchen dimensions in mm and inches: cabinet widths, depths, worktop heights and plinths, and how bespoke planning departs from them.
5 min readFitting a German kitchen in a London period house
How we fit precise German cabinetry into London period houses with uneven walls, low lower-ground ceilings, narrow stairs and listed status.
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