What Size Vidmar Cabinet Do I Need?

Start with height, then width, then depth

Every stocked Vidmar cabinet is one of four housing heights, one of four widths, and one of two depths. Height decides how you work at the cabinet: 33 inches is a bench, 37 inches slides under a counter, 44 inches is a standing counter with drawers below, 59 inches is the most drawers per square foot of floor. Width decides how many cabinets fit the wall. Depth is the one people get wrong: the standard 27¾ inch housing needs 28 inches of aisle in front of it to pull a drawer, so a tight room takes the 21⅜ inch shallow series. All 62 stocked modular drawer cabinets are in the table, with the 11 shelf and mobile cabinets after them.

The four heights, by use

• Bench-height, Model 175, 33″ (15 models). Pairs with Vidmar benching; carries a worksurface as a bench with drawers, or stands beside a bench at the same height. 4 to 7 drawers.
• Stand-up, Model 200, 37″ (8 models). Tucks under an existing counter or raised bench and still carries up to 8 full-extension drawers.
• Counter-height, Model 245, 44″ (15 models). A standing counter with the inventory underneath: parts counters, kitting, engine bays.
• Eye-level, Model 340, 59″ (24 models). The tool crib default: the most drawers per square foot, worked from the front against a wall.

Standard depth or shallow depth

The standard housing is 27¾ inches deep and it is what 56 of the 62 stocked cabinets use; every Quick Ship model is standard depth. The shallow 21⅜ inch series (6 stocked models) gives up about a quarter of the drawer volume to fit a room where the standard cabinet plus a pulled-out drawer would block an aisle, a door swing, or a vehicle bay. Decide by measuring the clear space in front of where the cabinet will stand: a standard cabinet needs its own 27¾ inches plus 28 inches for the open drawer plus the person, so about 5 feet from the wall; a shallow cabinet needs about 4 feet. The layout planner checks this for a whole room.

Widths and doorways

Widths are 22½″, 30″, 45″, 60″. The 22½ inch small version fits a narrow gap or the end of a run; 30 inches is the standard and what nearly every crib is built from; 45 and 60 inch housings carry the same drawer heights with far more compartments per drawer, at a higher price per cabinet and a lower price per compartment. Every cabinet passes through a 36 inch door: turn the 45 and 60 inch housings so the 27¾ inch depth faces the door. Cabinets ship on a pallet by LTL freight, so plan for a pallet jack or forklift at the dock, not two people.

How to read a Vidmar model number

Take RP3039A-FTKADB. RP, SCU and SEP are Vidmar's preconfigured catalog series prefixes. The four digits name the specific drawer layout, and the first digit tracks the housing height: 3xxx cabinets are Model 340 eye-level, 2xxx are Model 245 counter-height, and 1xxx are Model 175 bench-height, with the 19xx block being Model 200 stand-up. A means the cabinet ships with its drawer accessories (dividers and partitions); AL adds the lock. After the dash, FT is the forklift base that every stocked cabinet includes, then the keying, KA keyed alike, MA master keyed, RG random group, then the color code, DB for Dark Blue. Configured-to-order cabinets use the housing model instead, a footprint code plus the height code, like ST0340 for a standard 30 by 27¾ inch housing at 59 inches; the configurator builds those.

Every stocked Vidmar cabinet

62 modular drawer cabinets from $2,164.65 to $8,265.00 delivered, 7 of them Quick Ship within 10 days, plus the shelf and mobile lines. Prices include freight to the contiguous 48 states and are generated from the same catalog file as the product pages, so they match. Mobile cabinets are quoted.