Tall-group wall integration

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Purpose: Design options

KIT-06

Tall-group wall integration

Kitchen

Best for

A flush, built-in read where the tall group sits back into the wall plane — the calmest result in a small kitchen where the group's full depth would otherwise intrude.

Watch out

The niche has to exist or be built, which depends on the wall being non-structural or on a pocket being framed. Its dimensions have to be exact; a niche a few centimetres out cannot be fixed with a filler.

Relative cost

Higher — builder's work (framing and plastering) before any cabinetry, and the tall group is measured to the niche once it is built.

Consequential work

A first-fix decision: the niche is formed before walls close, and the cabinetry is fabricated to the finished niche. Measuring the cabinetry to a drawing instead of the built niche is where this goes wrong.

Best for

Any wall, no builder's work — the usual approach, and the one that keeps the cabinetry independent of the building.

Watch out

The group's full depth projects into the room; its side is a visible end panel that needs a finish, and the junction with the ceiling needs its own decision (KIT-16).

Relative cost

The reference point — no wall work.

Consequential work

Nothing beyond the cabinetry; the end-panel finish and the top junction are decided with the fronts.

Cost lines are relative and typical for the illustrated specification. Relative cost names the direct cost drivers, consequential work names what else changes, and watch out names the checks required. Exceptions and site conditions can change any of them. A relative direction, not an amount. Nothing here is a price; the figure belongs to whoever supplies the item and is set after measurement.

Supply and installation confirmed with your specification.

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Concept renders — a design render, not a photo. Shown as design options for one decision.

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