Showing posts with label Cabinet making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabinet making. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Advantages of Glass Cabinet Doors for your Kitchen Cabinets


When it comes to creating a stunning look for your kitchen, I can assure you that the use of glass material is the best idea that you can ever have. Glass usually resembles the element of cleanliness and gives an elegant look to your cabinet doors. This is the best way of improving your kitchen and bringing it to a higher level of style. When looking for glass for your cabinets, you should choose a quality one that will serve you well; it should be durable as it needs to stand up to daily use. You should look for glass that will fit well in the cabinet frames. The quality of wood that you use is also important since the cheap ones could easily break when you are closing the door.

Cabinetsdoors made of glass have plenty of advantages in them. One of them being that they are so easy to maintain. All you would really need is just a piece of soft cloth and some disinfectant to make it sparkling clean. When they are clean, they look beautiful and will create a fantastic impression on anyone visiting your home.

Using glass for your kitchen cabinets gives you chance to put your desired decoration on them if you do not want them to look pretty plain. When you decorate them, unfortunately they become of less advantage since with the plain ones you can easily see through them and you would not have to keep on searching for materials since you can see them from a distance. Their installation is easy and cost effect. It will save you some pennies when choose to have them on your cabinet doors. What else do you need to know of glass cabinetdoors for your kitchen? Go ahead and change from wood to glass in your kitchen cabinet doors

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Remodeling Your Kitchen


If it has been a long time since you spruced up your kitchen, then now may be the time to give one of the most used rooms in your home a facelift. Doing a kitchen remodeling project can give that most important room in the house a whole new look whilst maybe even adding resale value to your home.
Kitchen cabinets are a fundamental part of your kitchen as well as remaining a visually stand out attribute of the room. Renovating your kitchen cabinets is a sensible plan if the frames are in spite of everything still in a fine state of repair. If they are not then it is probably advisable to replace them with newer ones, although you may be able to ask a kitchen remodeling specialist if there are any parts that are salvageable.
When it comes to remodeling your kitchen you should look long and hard at the layout and spend plenty of time on the design. Make sure that you get everything down on paper otherwise you may find out later that you have missed out something that you really wanted in your kitchen.
If you can reuse your kitchen cabinets and you want to give them a fresh new look then there are certain steps that you should follow. Make sure that you clean all the parts thoroughly, as any residual dirt and grime may give an uneven finish, so use a degreaser to help you with this task.
Next up, fill in any cracks, gaps and scratches with the use of a plywood putty and smoothing everything out with a final sanding down, remembering to wipe the surface clean afterwards.
If you are looking at repainting your kitchen cabinets, then do not forget to use a primer on the cabinet surface before applying the paint you have chosen, otherwise the steam and heat of the kitchen will cause the paint to crack and flake off.



Thursday, August 23, 2012

Coffee In The Kitchen


I redesigned a kitchen for some friends lat week and I am really excited about how it is progressing. We are using a coffee based theme and it is fun and funky and I love it! We started out with the colour scheme – coffee and cream of course! The walls are cream, as are the tiles,but we interspersed some dark choclately brown tiles here and there to add some color. The wallsare looking great with the new cabinetry which was actually the inspiration for the theme. The cabinets themselves were sound so we purchased gorgeous Espresso cabinet doors which offer the warmth of realwood grain but with a rich dark colour. We purchased them from 27estore.com and while shopping there we picked up the perfect interior door featuring an aluminim frame and luxury mocha leather on the door. Yup you read that right! We are putting a leather door in this kitchen!Pretty Cool Huh?

Once all the decorating and the fitting has been done we will need to dress the room of course, so we have been having a blast hanging out at markets and antiques shows and we have picked up some fabulous items including vintage coffee grinders and coffee pots to display on shelves and pot racks. We filled mason jars with various types of coffee beans too. My favourite find though has to be the wall art! We pickd up a box of vintage style coffe shop and coffee themed signs – those old tin advertising things! It cost us $25 and there were about ten in the box! I can't wait to see them on the walls!