Modular Kitchen Planner & Cabinet Cut List

About the Modular Kitchen Planner & Cabinet Cut List

Plan a modular kitchen wall by wall: a straight, L-shaped, U-shaped or parallel (galley) kitchen, with or without an island. List the units along each wall as you face it — base units, drawer units, the sink and hob units, corner units, appliance spaces for the fridge, dishwasher or cooker, tall pantry and oven units, wall units and the space for a chimney hood — in your own widths, and add the doors and windows. The plan, an elevation of every run and a 3D view follow as you type, in millimetres or inches.

The planner checks what you draw: each run against its wall, units in front of a door or a window, the corners, the work triangle between the sink, the hob and the fridge, the clear floor in front of the units by the standard you choose, worktop beside tall units and beside the hob. From the design it makes the cabinet cut list (every side, bottom, rail, shelf, back, door and drawer part with its edge banding), lays the parts out on boards of your size for the board and laminate sheet count, and lists the worktop, the hardware and the appliances. Without a pass the result is a free preview: your plan and checks, the boards needed and the first rows of each list; a Pro pass unlocks the full lists, the PDF of drawings and cut list, the CSV, the plan as SVG or PNG and a quotation draft.

How the cut list is worked out

• Carcasses: sides run the full height; the bottom (and the top of wall and tall units) fits between them, the width less two board thicknesses; base units get two 100 mm rails instead of a top, since the worktop covers them; the back is the thinner board nailed over the back, 2 mm smaller each way; shelves are 2 mm narrower than the inside, set 20 mm back from the front.
• Doors: full overlay, one door up to 600 mm wide and two above, each the opening less the gap you set. Tall units get a lower and an upper door; corner units a door beside a blind panel where the other run meets them.
• Drawers: a shallow top drawer (a fifth of the front) and equal ones below; each box is 50 mm lower than its front, its runners the longest 50 mm step that fits the carcass depth less 20 mm, and its width the inside of the carcass less the runner space on both sides.
• End panels go where a run ends in the room or beside a fridge space, a cooker, a hood or an empty wall; the island gets a back panel. Edge banding is listed by edge: the front edge of carcass parts, all four edges of doors, fronts and panels.
• Every thickness, gap, height and depth is a setting, so the list follows your maker’s system.

Boards and laminate sheets

The parts of each board type — carcass, shutter, drawer box and back panel — are laid out on boards of the size you pick (such as 2,440 × 1,220 mm, 8 × 4 ft) with the saw cut between parts and a trimmed edge, each layout cut edge to edge so it can be cut on a panel saw or a track saw. Several orders are tried and the layout with the fewest boards is kept; the boards are drawn so you can check them. With keep the grain upright shutters are not turned. Laminate is counted for the outer face of every door, front and panel with 10 mm to trim, and the same again as the liner for the inside face.

The checks and where they come from

• Work triangle: the rule of thumb that each leg between the sink, the hob and the fridge is 1.2 to 2.7 m (4 to 9 ft), the three together 4 to 8 m (13 to 26 ft), and no full-height unit stands between two of them (summary). Change the limits under the rules if you plan by others.
• Clear floor in front of the units: 1,200 mm in front of and between all kitchen units and appliances in England’s Approved Document M for accessible and adaptable homes (M4(2), paragraph 2.24 b), 1,500 mm in wheelchair-user homes (M4(3), 3.32 b) (Approved Document M), or, under the US 2010 ADA Standards, 40 in (1,015 mm) in pass-through kitchens and 60 in (1,525 mm) in U-shaped ones (804.2, ADA Standards). Or set your own minimum. Measured from the worktop’s front edge.
• Worktop beside tall units and the fridge: 400 mm on at least one side. Approved Document M asks for it beside the oven and the fridge where they stand taller than the worktop, in wheelchair-user kitchens (M4(3), 3.34 g); the planner asks the same of every tall unit.
• Hob: worktop on both sides and no wall unit above it; the side clearance and the hood’s height come from their makers’ installation instructions.
• Fit: each run against its wall, units in front of doors and windows, a sill below the worktop, plain units in a corner.

The files

• PDF: the plan at a true scale with the checks, an elevation of every run, the cut list, the board layouts and laminate sheets, and the worktop, boards and hardware, on A4 or US Letter landscape.
• Cut list CSV: one row per part with its sizes in mm, quantity, board, thickness, banded edges and laminate, for a spreadsheet or a cutting program.
• Plan: as an SVG drawing or a PNG picture.
• Quotation draft: every unit by type and width, the worktop, the hardware and the appliances as the lines of a quotation; open it in the Quotation Generator with Open file and add your prices.
• Design file: your own design, to keep, move to another device or send; open it here to carry on. It never needs a pass.

Limitations

• A planning tool: it draws and counts what you enter. It is not an installation drawing — check every size on site and against the installation instructions of the appliances, sink, hob and hood before anything is cut.
• Rooms are rectangles with units on up to three walls and one island; sloping walls, columns and boxed-in pipes are not drawn (shorten a run or add a filler for them).
• Gas, water and electrical work, ventilation, and fire and building rules are not checked: follow your local rules and the appliance makers.
• Board counts come from a cut-to-the-edge layout of the parts: an optimiser that knows your saw may save a board on a large job.
• The 3D view needs WebGL in the browser; without it the plan and the elevations show the same design.

Privacy

Your design stays in this browser and is kept on this device for your next visit: nothing is uploaded. The design file is saved only when you choose Save design file.