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Kitchens

Kitchen is a place where family gather together to eat everyday meals and friends come over for a dinner, or place where people spending a lot of time during holidays preparing food. And it is essential to keep this place warm and comfortable, but with years any place, even good maintained, loosing fresh and nice look. And eventually you realize that this place needs some renovations and improvements. There are a lot of ideas about kitchen remodeling, but every of them ending with a budget you have for a new project.

Kitchen cabinets

Kitchen cabinets are the face of any kitchen. There are three types of kitchen cabinets – stock, semicustom and custom. Stock cabinets comes in a standard sizes, they are always in stock and most affordable, but design very limited. Semicustom cabinets come with more design options and in a wide variety of wood. Custom cabinets the most expensive option, but it is no limitations in sizes, colors or types of the wood.

Also kitchen cabinets can be face-framed or frameless. Face-framed cabinets have a frame around the front cabinet box. This type is a common design for American kitchens. Frameless cabinets it is a European design and becoming more popular with their contemporary style.

If your budget is limited, and the cabinets are not damaged, repainting and changing door knobs and handles is another option to make some renovation with a kitchen. But always consider the fact that you will make a good deal if you can do it yourself. Highly professional painter who can make your cabinets looks like new not that cheap as you probably think.

Kitchen countertops

Base on type of the material used there are different types of kitchen countertops – laminate, tile, marble, granite, synthetic stone, solid surface, stainless steel or wood. Most inexpensive option is laminate but if your budget allows granite definitely is the best option for the new kitchen remodeling project. Using synthetic stone becoming more popular in contemporary style, but it is an expensive idea. Check the cost to remodel a kitchen.

Plan ahead which and how you want to put light fixture in your kitchen. It is a good idea to install under cabinet light or pendant light over the kitchen island. There are variety of track lights available which you can use as a main source of light in the kitchen, or just install can lights.

Other things to consider

After cabinets and countertop are installed make a decision about kitchen backsplash. You can paint it or install tile. Kitchen sink should be choose prior to countertop installation, because hole for a sink better to cut in the shop. When the counter is in the place you have to have a faucet, in order to make proper hole or holes for that. Last thing is to install appliances, but if you think about something not standard you have to work with contractor from beginning and explain what and where you want to install, so the design and layout for the cabinets will be properly done.