27-Inch White Shaker Wall Cabinet – 42 Inches Tall
The WW2742 is a 27-inch-wide White Shaker Wall Cabinet designed to maximize vertical storage while maintaining a clean, balanced cabinet layout. Featuring two doors and three adjustable shelves, it provides generous room for dishes, glassware, pantry items, and everyday kitchen essentials while making full use of available wall space.
The 27-inch width provides additional storage over a 24-inch cabinet while maintaining the convenience of two doors for easy access. It's an excellent choice for homeowners who want more usable shelf space without stepping up to one of the largest wall cabinet sizes.
Why Choose a 42-Inch Tall Wall Cabinet?
Forty-two-inch-tall wall cabinets maximize vertical storage while creating a built-in appearance. Although they're commonly associated with 9-foot ceilings, we also install them frequently when remodeling older homes with standard 8-foot ceilings.
In our experience, the most popular approach is to run 42-inch-tall wall cabinets all the way to the ceiling without crown molding. Homeowners gain an additional shelf of storage, eliminate the dust-collecting space above the cabinets, and create a clean, seamless appearance.
Why Choose a 27-Inch Wide Wall Cabinet?
The WW2742 provides more usable storage than the 24-Inch White Shaker Wall Cabinet while remaining a comfortable size for many kitchen layouts. It offers generous room for dinnerware, pantry items, serving pieces, and frequently used kitchen essentials.
If your layout has room for the 30-Inch White Shaker Wall Cabinet, we generally recommend moving up in size. The wider cabinet provides even greater usable storage while maintaining the same height.
Design Tip
Double-door wall cabinets like the WW2742 provide easier access to larger storage areas and work especially well for dishes, serving pieces, and pantry items. Whenever space allows, using larger equal-width wall cabinets helps maximize storage, reduce cabinet joints, and create the balanced appearance found in professionally designed kitchens.
Ready for Glass at No Additional Charge
The WW2742 can be ordered Ready for Glass at no additional charge. Instead of the standard recessed birch plywood center panels, the doors are prepared to accept customer-supplied glass, allowing you to create a custom display cabinet for glassware, decorative dishes, or collectibles.
Glass is not included. We recommend using tempered safety glass for all glass door applications and verifying the required glass dimensions after receiving the prepared doors.
Common Storage Uses
- Dinnerware
- Coffee mugs
- Drinking glasses
- Serving bowls and platters
- Pantry items
- Baking ingredients
- Food storage containers
Full Access Behind the Double Doors
Our two-door wall cabinets are built without a center stile between the doors. When both doors are open, you have full access to the cabinet interior, making it easier to load, organize, and remove larger dishes, serving bowls, mixing bowls, and pantry items.
The unobstructed opening also makes cleaning and reorganizing the cabinet easier because you are not working around a fixed center divider.
Built to Last
Built in America, the WW2742 features a solid poplar face frame and solid poplar Shaker doors with recessed birch plywood center panels. The cabinet box is constructed from durable birch plywood. We build our cabinets using hardwood and durable plywood—never MDF, particleboard, or engineered wood products—for long-term strength, durability, and dependable everyday performance.
Soft-close concealed hinges provide smooth, quiet operation. Three adjustable shelves allow the storage space to be arranged around the items you use most often. The cabinet is factory finished with Sherwin-Williams White and arrives ready for installation.
Before You Order
Before ordering, verify your ceiling height, appliance clearances, neighboring cabinet widths, fillers, and the complete wall cabinet layout. If you're installing cabinets to the ceiling, confirm the actual ceiling height before ordering.
Review our How to Measure for Cabinets guide before placing your order. We also recommend reading our Cabinet Layout & Design Guide before finalizing your cabinet run.
Browse our White Shaker Wall Cabinet Collection or our White Shaker Cabinet Collection to compare additional wall cabinet sizes and configurations.
Product Specifications
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Model: WW2742
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Width: 27 inches
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Height: 42 inches
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Depth: 12 inches
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Configuration: Two doors
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Shelves: Three adjustable shelves
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Door Style: Partial Overlay Shaker
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Face Frame: Solid poplar
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Doors: Solid poplar with recessed birch plywood center panels
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Glass Option: Ready for Glass available at no additional charge; glass not included
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Cabinet Box: Birch plywood
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Center Stile: None
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Construction: No MDF, particleboard, or engineered wood products
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Hardware: Soft-close concealed hinges
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Finish: Sherwin-Williams White
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Assembly: Ready-to-Assemble pocket screw construction
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Origin: Made in America
Professional Recommendation
The WW2742 is an excellent choice for homeowners who want generous wall storage while maintaining a balanced cabinet layout. The additional shelf and two-door design provide excellent accessibility, making it easy to organize everything from everyday dishes to pantry items while maximizing storage all the way to the ceiling.
Whenever possible, we still recommend using larger equal-width wall cabinets because they provide more usable storage, fewer cabinet joints, and a cleaner overall kitchen design. The WW2742 offers an outstanding combination of storage capacity, accessibility, and efficient use of vertical wall space.
