Kitchen Cabinets: Design Your Cabinetry Right
By: James Newell on Tue Mar 31, 2009
What are the important factors to consider when you are looking at buying kitchen or bathroom cabinets? Budget, Size, Style, Quality, Construction and Finish must all be at the top of your list of questions that you should answer to facilitate the process when making the final decision. The following is a quick guide to buying kitchen cabinets.
Set Your Budget
Set your budget! Be aware that cabinets count for 40% to 50% of the entire cost of your kitchen renovation project, therefore knowing how much you would like to spend is crucial and should be the first thing you tackle to get things rolling. But do not let this decision worry you either. Remember that the cabinets you decide on will make a difference in converting your area and give character to your kitchen or bathroom.
Measure Your Space
Measure your space! You should know where you would like the cabinets to be installed in addition to measuring your space. Once you have done this, you will ultimately speak to a specialist in home renovating for assistance, by having this information on hand, this will smooth the progress of your task as well as the specialist in helping and giving you advice in moving forward with your project.
Choose Stock, Semi-Custom, or Custom Cabinets
Stock, Semi-custom and High-end Cabinets, these are your choices:
Stock cabinets are the least expensive, you find them in standard shapes and dimensions, and are offered in a limited amount of woods or styles. Semi-custom cabinets are factory-built in standard dimension nevertheless; they come with many options for storage, design and style. The High-end cabinets are cabinets that are custom made in respect with the customer request. This takes place either in a workroom to designer specification or on-site in any style and finish.
So Many Options
Your choice in cabinets will define your options available. Stock cabinets provide few options outside of drawers and cupboards. Semi-custom and custom cabinets will give you plenty of options to fulfill your storage needs from lazy Susan to wine racks to vertical dividers, you name it, you got it.
You Have a Choice in Quality
Quality should be considered, why? Because you will be opening and closing your cabinet drawers or doors several times a day and they should function effortlessly and quietly. Cabinets should have firm frames, door and drawer fronts, resilient corners, closed backs and finally the finish on the wood ought to be smooth.
Choose Your Style
For Style you can look at magazines or visit home décor stores to give you ideas. Remember, stock cabinets do not come in many styles while semi-custom and custom cabinets are offered in many styles. Make your choice in relationship with the structural design of your home, including the design of the other rooms.. You can opt for natural wood finish that comes in a number of colors and woods, painted or stained, or laminate finished.
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