KITCHEN
STYLES
One of the basic design elements of your kitchen is the kitchen
cabinets. Basically these cabinets are categorized into three parts
i.e. semi custom, custom made and stock.
Semi custom
cabinets are available
in standard size with modifications. They easily match with the
interior or the exterior design of the kitchen and thus give it look
and feel. The custom made
cabinets are those which is available in different sizes and style as
they are manufactured according
to your kitchen decor or requirements.
You can add as many designs and styles as you want in your custom
kitchen cabinets. The stock cabinets are available in many design and
styles at the various home improvement stores. These are
available
only in set sizes which start from 9 inches and can be increased to 48
inches.
There are
various types of cabinets available on the market out of which the 5
popular designs available in the kitchen cabinets are as follows:
Traditional
Kitchen
These cabinets come with doors that have raised panels. Cherry, walnut
or mahogany colors are available in the traditional kitchen cabinets.
Plenty of design work like fluting, corbels, crown and rope molding is
found on these cabinets. Traditional designs for the kitchen cabinets
comes in Italianate, Georgian and Victorian designs.
Country
Kitchen
Country
cabinets include oak or cherry
cabinets with the raised panels that are glazed, painted or distressed.
These cabinets give natural look to your kitchen because they
themselves possess the light natural look which is usually oak or pine.
In order to give aged appearence, the country kitchen cabinets are
painted white with distressed finishing.
Contemporary
Kitchen
The
contemporary cabinets have designs that
are modern,
curved or
geomaetric manner. These cabinets do not make use of ornamentation or
molding. One can get white, stainless steel or other bright colors in
the contemporary cabinets. Doors of these cabinets are designed in such
a way that they open in horizontally lift up style.
Transitional
Kitchen
The transitional cabinets are the combination of contemporary
and traditional
designs. They are
designed by using the mixture of man made and natural materials.
Rustic
Kitchen
The rustic
cabinets are manufactured by using
wood like hickory, knotty pine or alder that heavily grained. There is
a flat panel door system available in these cabinets. Some of common
color stains available in the rustic cabinets are yellow, red and green.
However, there are other different designs available in the kitchen
cabinets. Depending upon the decor
of your kitchen as well as your
requirements, you can choose
any one of them. All of the
different designs available in the kitchen cabinets give fresh and elegant
look to your
kitchen. While purchasing the cabinets for your kitchen it is more important
that they should be more
functional
instead of being attractive.
These Cabinets should have more
storage space and it will
better if they have bin, baskets or
any deep
drawers. Thus
while purchasing any of the designs available for the kitchen cabinets;
you should take a look at their functionality
so that you can get the best for your kitchen.
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