Designing a custom home kitchen for your new or renovated home can be a dream come true or a living nightmare. Homeowners are more likely than ever to enjoy time in the kitchen preparing elaborate meals to serve family and company alike. Kitchen gadgets and tools have become more specialized and take up extra storage space. Older kitchens often cannot easily accommodate these tools, either because of their shapes or sizes.
Take advantage of the flexibility that comes with having your kitchen doors and cabinets built by talented and experienced craftsmen. Here are some functional and attractive ideas for your new kitchen:
1) Kitchen utensils are usually both stylish and functional. Storage can double as décor with a custom kitchen cabinet design done right. An open wall-mounted plate rack can display a set of plates with matching mugs hanging securely below the plates. Grouped ceramic teapots and matching mugs or exquisite crystal collections can be attractively placed for viewing behind cut glass doors.
2) Most homeowners make fresh coffee in the mornings or stop at coffee shops for a hot drink on the way to work. Large cappuccino machines and coffee bean grinders are taller than many counters will fit, making leaving them out a permanent problem. However, placing them in an inaccessible place makes it unlikely that they will be taken out and used in the morning.
With custom kitchen cabinets, you can raise the bottom of the kitchen cabinet to make room for coffee machines and lower the height of the shelves to make room for a variety of coffee mugs, espresso cups and cups of cappuccino. Who needs to go to a coffee shop with a gourmet coffee bar at home?
3) Reaching items near the back of the bottom shelves in a kitchen cabinet can be difficult, especially as we age. Replacing these shelves with shallow drawers on wheels makes it easy to access everything. Careful construction of the drawers from sturdy, hard wood allows them to hold more weight and prevents them from breaking, maximizing usable storage space.
4) Kitchen cabinet doors with narrow shelves are a convenient place to store small bottles of herbs and spices, condiments, or tall boxes and bottles. Deeper, more ventilated drawers can be used to keep root vegetables fresh or prevent bread from going moldy. Storage space for recycling and garbage is also important in a kitchen.
5) Mounting small halogen light fixtures at the bottom of a kitchen cabinet is an easy way to make a room feel cozier. Pinning them to the bottom of cabinet shelves can draw attention to an attractive collection of mugs, plates or trinkets. Both can double as attractive nighttime security lights.
6) Kitchen islands offer the opportunity for kitchen cabinets that can be accessed from all sides. To best utilize the generous amount of storage space, place cookware storage cabinets on the side facing the stove and sink. Cabinets facing the other rooms can be used to store a dry bar or serving glasses and plates used for more casual entertaining.
With an experienced master craftsman by your side, customizing your dream kitchen with custom handmade kitchen cabinets and doors will be easy.
