So here it is all cut and nailed into place: They had cut it to size for me in the wood cutting area, but because we had later switched from a 21″ end cabinet to an 18″ end cabinet I had 3″ of overhang that I had to cut off with my jigsaw.
It’s just a thin piece of “utility plywood” that the Lowe’s guy recommended. I actually bought this piece of wood back when I got the plywood for our refrigerator built-in so I could transport it in my rented Lowe’s truck (how’s that for thinking ahead!). Then I was ready to attach my plywood panel. Then I screwed it into the wall so that the flat edge would be flush with the back of the cabinets. It’s basically just two scrap pieces of wood that I screwed together at a 90-degree angle using my jig. It’s something we’d have to do eventually, so why not tackle it while we wait for counters? You can see in the photo above that I had already attached a little corner piece to anchor the panel against the half wall. Since we don’t want the guy templating the counters to think we want an angled corner or anything, we wanted to attach a flat panel on the back of the entire peninsula. … our next little task was over on the peninsula. And once we add the toe kick across the front of all the cabinets the bottom will be seamless too. Oh and once we demo the tile from behind the stove it’ll be able to push back against the wall a bit more for a more flush look. I know it’s hard to tell in the pic below, but trust us that it’s just about as snug as we’d ever want it (any closer it would be hard to get the stove in and out). I didn’t bother putting them any further than the first two panels since they were strictly aesthetic. Here’s what they looked like on both sides. So I nailed those two suckers in place, being super sensitive to keeping them flush with my other filler piece along the front. It’s a 3/8″ thick project board that fit perfectly into my slightly-too-big gap, thank goodness (though they added $4 to my total budget, now breaking the bank at $15). So I headed back out to Lowe’s a grabbed a couple of these. The gap was just over 1/4 of an inch, and I knew we could do better. Obviously I just needed to add one more sliver of filler wood. Then we stepped a little closer and put on our Picky Pants and we saw that there was still a noticeable gap. Especially since many of the other base cabinets in our kitchen already have fillers in the 2.5″ range. Not bad, eh? Once the counters are on and the cabinets are primed and painted no one will even notice them. Here are both sides done (ready for the stove to slide back into place): We probably could’ve gotten away with two, but it’s not like the boards were breaking the bank (I spent about $11 total on this entire project – which is at least $100 cheaper than some sort of pull out dealie). In total, each side had three separate filler pieces. Obviously we needed the fillers at the front to visually fill the gap, but we also decided to put one at the back in case the counter guy needed it for support: I grabbed a few pine “project boards” at Lowe’s, cut them to size, and drilled some pilot holes with my Kreg jig before screwing them carefully into place. And although we thought about some sort of ornate leg or braided detail, we ultimately decided that we wanted other things like the wall of penny tile backsplash to be the star (along with items on our floating shelves), so two thin and basic filler pieces of wood were our final pick.
FILL THE GAP BETWEEN STOVE AND COUNTER PLUS
Plus none of the thin slide out drawers had doors that looked like our existing ones anyway, so it was just not worth the money/trouble. Oh and for anyone wondering why we didn’t scoot the stove to one side and add a wider pull out drawer, if we didn’t leave the stove centered the hood would be off-center, which would mean widening the ceiling hole (= drama).
Since you can’t squeeze much function into two and 3/4ths inches (almost every pull-out drawer was 3″ or more), we decided just to put in filler pieces of wood. The base cabinet that we removed was 36″ wide, but the stove is only about 30″ leaving a little under 3″ of nothingness on either side. Including a few that we wanted to accomplish before the countertop guy came to template for our new counters (that’s something we want done accurately, after all).įirst on our list of little things was filling the gaps next to our stove. Some aspects of this kitchen remodel are certainly less exciting than others – especially when compared to having just opened the wall up.
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