Cabinet linear feet calculator
Two ways to get linear feet. On a first visit you have wall lengths: enter them, take out the openings, and decide how to count the corners. Once there is a drawing you have a box list: paste the SKUs and the widths add up by themselves.
The walls and boxes filled in below are an example L-shaped kitchen. Nothing you type leaves this page.
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From wall lengths
Measure each wall where the cabinets go, corner to corner or corner to the end of the run. Openings are the inches with no cabinet: the dishwasher (usually 24 inches), the range, the refrigerator, a door. Wall openings are different from base openings: a window or a range hood interrupts the upper run, a dishwasher does not. See how to measure a kitchen for cabinets for the full field routine.
Corners are the part dealers count differently. Where two base runs meet, a 24 by 24 inch square belongs to both walls. If you measure both walls to the corner and add them, that square is counted twice. Ticking the box takes it out once per inside corner. Either way is fine, as long as it is the same on every quote; corner cabinet sizes explains how blind corners and lazy susans use that square.
From a box list
Each SKU carries its width: B24 is 24 inches, W3030 is 30 wide and 30 high, LS36 is 36. The calculator reads the width the same way Cabinet Project's catalog import does and adds base and wall runs separately. Tall cabinets are counted, not measured, because they are usually priced each. Fillers and panels add nothing. If a SKU is not recognized, check it in the cabinet SKU decoder.
What to do with the number
Linear feet drive two prices: install labor (see the install labor calculator) and the first-visit cabinet estimate (see kitchen cabinet cost per linear foot). In Cabinet Project the drawing keeps the base and wall linear feet up to date as boxes move, and the quick estimate prices them from your own line's catalog.
Questions
How do you calculate linear feet of kitchen cabinets?
Add the widths of the boxes on a run in inches and divide by 12. Count base and wall runs separately. From wall lengths alone, take each wall's length, subtract the openings for appliances or windows, and subtract the corner square once where two runs meet.
Do you count the corner twice?
Only if you decide to. Where two base runs meet, the corner square is 24 by 24 inches and belongs to both walls. Tick the box to count it once (24 inches off for base, 12 for wall per inside corner), and keep the same rule on every quote.
Do tall cabinets count in linear feet?
Usually not. A pantry or oven cabinet is one heavy box whatever its width, so most dealers and installers price tall cabinets each.