If a kitchen budget has one upgrade worth making, this is it. Rest Cabinetry stocks over 470 drawer base variations in Norcross.
A base cabinet with a door and a shelf holds exactly as much as a drawer of the same size. The difference is that you can see a drawer. Behind a door, the back half is invisible, so everything you own migrates into the front eight inches and the rest becomes storage you pay for and never open. A drawer brings the whole depth to you, standing where you already are, without kneeling.
That is the entire case, and it is why nobody who installs drawer bases goes back.
| Two drawer | One shallow, one deep. The general-purpose base - cutlery and utensils above, pans or food storage below. The most useful single cabinet in most kitchens. |
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| Three drawer | Shallow, medium, deep. Better where the contents are small and varied; the shallow top drawer stops being a junk layer when there is a proper place beneath it. |
| Deep double | Two tall drawers for pans and pots. Heavy when loaded - which is exactly why the glide matters more here than anywhere else in the kitchen. |
| Narrow, 9 to 12 inch | Trays, boards and lids on end, in the gap beside a range that would otherwise take a filler strip. |
What to check before ordering. Full-extension glides, so the back of the drawer actually comes out - a three-quarter glide leaves the last quarter hard to reach, which on a deep drawer is a large share of what you are paying for. And look at how the drawer box is joined at the front corner, because that is where a loaded drawer eventually gives. Specification is stated per product, so read the item rather than assuming it applies across a collection.
The prep zone between sink and range first - that is where you stand and where reaching matters most. Then beside the range for pans. A door base is still fine for tall upright items, bins, and anything that genuinely lives one layer deep. See base cabinets for the whole run.
| Warehouse | 6115 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Suite E, Norcross, GA 30071 |
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| Hours | Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 17:00. Closed Sunday. |
| Pickup | Same day |
| Delivery | 7 to 10 business days across metro Atlanta |
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Below the counter, yes, and it is the single highest-value change in a kitchen plan. A door and a shelf hold the same volume but you cannot see the back half, so everything migrates to the front. A drawer brings the whole depth out to you.
Two-drawer is the general-purpose base - shallow above for utensils, deep below for pans. Three-drawer suits small varied contents. A deep double is for pots and pans, and is the one where the glide quality matters most.
Glides that let the drawer come all the way out. A three-quarter glide leaves the back quarter hard to reach, which on a deep base drawer is a large share of the storage you paid for.
Yes - a drawer base is more cabinet, with a mechanism per drawer rather than a hinge per door. It is also the upgrade with the largest daily payoff, which is why it is worth budgeting for deliberately.
The prep zone between sink and range first, because that is where you stand and where reaching matters. Then beside the range for pans.
No. Doors still make sense for tall upright items, bins, and anything that genuinely lives one layer deep. The test is whether you would have to move something to reach something else.
The joint at the front corner, under load. Look at how the box is joined rather than only what it is made of - a well-joined box outlasts a thicker badly-joined one.
Over 470 drawer base variations across the nine finish collections, stocked in Norcross.
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