I'm building kitchen cabs for a friend and am looking for advice on a 24" deep over-fridge cabinet design. The refrigerator is at the left end of the run and the fridge cab would be anchored to the wall...no problem. The issue is that the guy prefers no supporting side panel on the right side of the cabinet. Basically he's asking if I can use the adjacent 12" deep wall cabinet to support the right side of the 24" deep fridge cab, which would protrude 12" proud of the 12" wall cab. I've build a few kitchens with the deep fridge cab but always with a full 24" deep panel or wall on both sides for support. I'm concerned about the 12" cantilever on the right side of the fridge cab...just seems it's asking for trouble.
Has anyone done this? At a minimum, this design would require finished end panels on both the fridge cab right side and the adjacent 12" wall cab left side since they would both be partially exposed. Hopefully I'm explaining this clearly. These are face frame cabinets.
Similar to this except without that tall side panel: