Kitchen Cabinets 101 Choose cabinets and hardware wisely so that your new kitchen will look great and perform beautifully! Let Welby Construction help you create a kitchen that fits your family’s lifestyle and budget. Learn about the newest features and options in cabinetry and hardware before you start designing your new kitchen. Selecting the right mix of products for your kitchen – and your budget – can help make your kitchen dreams a reality. Cabinetry, more than any other elements, sets the look and feel of your kitchen. The right cabinet choices will help make the room efficient and easy to use. Nearly half of the average kitchen remodeling budget goes toward cabinets. Depending on how they’re constructed and how much they can be customized, cabinets fall into three basic categories: stock, semicustom, and custom. The category of a particular cabinet is not necessarily an indication of quality; fine cabinetry can be in all three. Stock Cabinet Stock cabinets come in a great number of styles. Widths for stock cabinets run between 9 and 48 inches, increasing in 3-inch increments. Order through retailers, at home improvement and kitchen and bath centers, or from manufacturers’ catalogs, stock cabinets cost between $60 and $200 per linear foot. Pros: Stock cabinets are usually the most economical choice. Because they are stored in manufacturers’ warehouses, they are also readily available – usually stock cabinets will arrive within a week or so of being ordered. Cons: Because cabinets are already built – sitting in a warehouse waiting to be purchased – they don’t come in special sizes. Filler strips can close gaps between a cabinet and an appliance or a wall, but that’s pretty much the extent to which the cabinets can be customized. If only the “real thing” – solid wood – will do for you, it’s unlikely you’ll find what you’re looking for in stock cabinets Semicustom Cabinets These cabinets are built only after an order is final. They come in a wider range of styles, construction materials, and colors than stock cabinets. They can be amended easily with storage units and accessories, such as pullout bins and lazy susans. Semicustom cabinets usually run between $100 and $650 per linear foot. Pros: Because they are constructed after you’ve placed your order, modifications to standard cabinet sizes can be made. Semicustom cabinets offer a broad selection of finished and varying cabinet depths that will give your kitchen a more personal look. Cons: The primary disadvantage of semicustom cabinets is their higher price tag. They also may take a month or longer to be delivered after they’re ordered, but when you’re talking about a kitchen that should last up to 15 years, the wait shouldn’t be a major issue. Custom Cabinets These units are built, usually by a local cabinetmaker, from the material you choose (usually a hardwood, such as male, cherry, walnut, or oak) in the size, shape and configuration you choose; and with whatever finish you want. Custom cabinets usually cost $500 to $1,200 per linear foot. Pros: The advantages are obvious. Your kitchen cabinets can look and function exactly the way you want. If you have an oddly shaped kitchen, a curved wall, or some other uniquely interesting aspect to your kitchen, it can be perfectly fitted with custom cabinets. You can also accommodate specialized storage needs. A long cabinet without interior partitions to hold cookie trays and roasting pans can be created. Cons: The biggest downside of custom cabinets is their expense. And you can’t be in a hurry to get cooking. True custom-made cabinets take at least 10 weeks – and often longer than that –to complete.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:22:01 +0000
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