CABINET TRENDS
Photo courtesy of O’Leary Custom Building, Inc.
This last year has driven home for a lot of people the desire to have a functional and visually pleasing space in which to spend their time. The cabinet industry has responded by providing ways to streamline and simplify functionality and aesthetics in kitchens and bathrooms while continuing to focus on quality craftsmanship. Many people are making less frequent trips to the grocery store and spending more time in their homes. This is driving a trend to find creati e ways to create more storage or ood and other things that add to a cluttered-looking home. While removing or moving walls are great ways to make more space available in a kitchen or bath, these aren’t feasible options in every home. Floor to ceiling cabinetry creates more storage for food or linens and the opportunity to hide small appliances from view. Roll-out shelves and pull-out inserts make this space readily accessible. Appliance garages are available with doors for a more uniform look than the roll-up look of the past. Increasingly, homeowners are installing microwave drawers that are undercounter and out o iew. rawers can e fitted with a charging station for your cell phones and tablets to maximize available counter space. There are pull-out storage options for everything from utensils and spices to your favorite knife set in the kitchen. In the bathroom, you can have a pullout dedicated to your hair dryer and other styling tools. Now, drawer boxes, waste and recycling centers and many of the organizational cabinet solutions you have seen in the past are a aila le and made o walnut wood or a rich finished look.
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Once you’ e gotten e erything off your counterto , you can create a clean, sleek look with your cabinetry. The trend for clean lines in cabinetry will continue for the foreseeable future. Think sla or Shaker style doors with solid, flat moldings. We are seeing a move to using fewer doors and drawer fronts to maintain sleek lines. This can be accomplished with full height doors below and drawer bases with just two drawer fronts stacked ut more drawers ehind those drawer ronts to offer the functionality of three or four drawers. U-shaped drawers can be used to work around plumbing in vanity cabinets to allow for drawer space without having to break up the look of the vanity front into multiple doors and drawer fronts. Simple lines in cabinetry can allow homeowners more options to put their personal touches on their space. Many are choosing neutral tones for the bulk of their cabinetry combined with an island or some wall cabinets in a unique color or texture. Some are installing unique slabs on an island to make it really pop. The new rule of thumb is to remember that your kitchen and bathrooms are central to your everyday life in a way they probably haven’t been before. Make your home a place that gives you comfort and a sense of well-being amid the unpredictability we are experiencing in the public world. Thanks to Meghan Behm at Sierra Crest Cabinets for writing this article. You can contact Meghan at 530.546.8552, info@sierracrestcabinets.com or www.sierracrestcabinets.com.
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