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8 Cabinet Hardware Styles to Consider with Your Custom Kitchen

When you design a custom kitchen, you want every element to be perfect. Small details carry more weight than you may think. The right cabinet hardware can make or break your kitchen’s look. Here are eight cabinet hardware styles to consider with your custom kitchen.

1. Traditional Knob and Pull

If you think about the cabinets in most homes, you’ll see a combination of knobs and pulls, typically with knobs on cabinet doors and pulls on the drawers. If you like to keep things traditional, a combination of knobs and pulls could be the right fit for you. Moreover, there’s no reason to discount this style just because it’s common. There are so many different choices of knobs and pulls that you can make this style uniquely your own.

2. Drop Pulls

If you prefer something a little fancier, consider drop pulls. Drop pulls add an ornate touch to your kitchen and pair particularly well with other styles, like knobs and cup pulls. Since drop pulls are meant to lie flat, they work best on drawers. And because furniture-style cabinets are popular right now, drop pulls are an excellent choice.

3. Rustic

Are you planning to have lots of natural woodgrain on display in your kitchen? If so, rustic cabinet hardware could be just the touch you need. Hammered or wrought-iron handles and pulls give your kitchen a rustic feel, reminiscent of a log cabin. They also work well in kitchens that feature stone, marble, and granite elements.

4. Cremone Bolts

You have probably seen cremone bolts on casement windows and French doors, but they’re also a wonderful choice for kitchen cabinets, especially those with glass doors. Cremone bolts add a classic charm to your kitchen and come in many ornate designs. You’ll instantly add a romantic, high-end atmosphere to your kitchen by including cremone bolts on your cabinets.

5. Tubular Metal Pulls

If you prefer a modern, sleek look for your cabinets, tubular metal pulls are the way to go. These long, metal pulls come in a variety of finishes, so you can choose one that complements the color of your cabinets.  For example, brass, silver, and gold pulls work well with many cabinet colors. Or for a bolder look, pair black pulls with white or light-colored cabinets.

6. Cup Pulls

Cup pulls are designed to be grasped from the bottom and come in a variety of designs. This versatile hardware choice is equally as at home in a farmhouse style kitchen as an industrial one. For instance, cup pulls can add a vintage, modern, or rustic feel to your kitchen, depending on your choice of material and design.

7. Tuscan

Do you adore European style? Then, consider Tuscan cabinet pulls. These lovely pulls bring a distinctive European flair to your kitchen. Pair them with raised panel cabinets, and you’ll feel as though you’ve been transported to the French or Italian countryside. At once provincial and elegant, Tuscan-style cabinet pulls are perfect if you want your kitchen to evoke an old-world European charm.

8. Novelty

Novelty cabinet hardware is a wonderful choice if you want to express a particular element of your personality. Although some may be quick to assume novelty hardware must be tacky or garish, quite the opposite is true. Tasteful and stylish novelty cabinet hardware abounds. So whether you want to display your love of the sea with seashell-themed pulls, want your hardware to give a nod to your love of nature with elements like leaves and vines, or want to pay homage to your equestrian lifestyle with subtle sleeping fox knobs, you’re sure to find novelty hardware that brings a unique element to your kitchen.

Remember, we at Edgewood Cabinetry are always happy to help you choose the right hardware to complement your custom cabinets. Contact us today to get started.

 

 

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Why You Need A Cabinet Plan

Why You Need A Cabinet Plan

A cabinet plan is a foundation for creating cabinets you’ll love. Whether it’s your kitchen, bathroom or any other room, it’s vital to plan out everything from the size to layout. Installing cabinets isn’t as straightforward as putting some boxes with doors against your walls. To get the most function and space, you have to plan out the finer details. Before you start installing cabinets or have someone build your cabinets, create a plan to ensure you’re getting the cabinets you actually want and need.

Easier To Get It Right The First Time

Why You Need A Cabinet PlanWhat’s easier – putting in cabinets and then having to re-do them because they don’t fit your vision or getting it right the first time? You save both time and money with a cabinet plan. You plan out every detail before anyone even starts to build your cabinets. You avoid costly surprises, the cabinets fit perfectly and they work the way you want.

Plus, if you have to constantly remodel what you already have, you risk damaging other parts of the room. For example, in a kitchen, constantly changing cabinets in and out can damage your appliances.

Design Around Your Layout

The available space depends on the layout you want. For instance, in an office, you’d want to design your cabinets based upon your desk placement, any windows and how easily you need to reach them from where you sit. The same is true for kitchens. In this case, you typically design a cabinet plan based on the most efficient layout for your needs.

Plus, you might want to change your current layout. For example, a more open layout, which affects the type of cabinets and where they’re placed, makes a smaller kitchen feel more open and larger.

Build For Function And Storage

Edgewood Cabinetry cabinetsWhile you can add storage functional and storage features later, it’s often a hassle. Instead, use a cabinet plan to layout how your cabinets will function and how you’ll store items. For instance, you’d design laundry room cabinets based around the items you store and how easily you want to access them. You might have drawers between your washer and dryer for smaller items and a Lazy Susan to quickly grab detergents from a larger cabinet. You’d likely also add a stow-away ironing board as part of one of your cabinets or in between them.

Consider everything you need and how you’ll use the cabinets. When they’re custom-designed for you, they’ll be far more useful.

Better Fit The Room

Cabinets should be designed to better fit your room. This not only looks better, but gives you more space to move around. That’s why custom cabinets often work best. You can opt for thinner, wider, taller and shorter cabinets than you’d get with stock cabinets.

Plus, with a cabinet plan, you can easily visualize where to place cabinets to provide easy access and fit with your room’s theme. For example, if you’re installing a kitchen island, the center of the room might not always be what’s best. Instead, you might place it further away from your refrigerator, but closer to your stove for easy prep without getting in the way of everyone coming to grab something out of the refrigerator.

Match Your Budget

The last thing you want is to suddenly go over budget in the middle of a cabinetry project. A cabinet plan helps you layout every detail. You can even plan the hardware. Quickly see which parts cost the most and where you can cut back if necessary. For instance, choosing a different countertop might be all you need to get back on budget. Or, you might opt for a simpler backsplash that’s easier to install.

Whatever room your cabinets are going in, you need a plan. This helps you get the cabinets you really want and need while still staying on budget.

Need help with your cabinet plan? Contact us today to find out how we can help you plan your cabinetry project from start to finish, complete with the perfect custom cabinets.

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Squeezing the Most Storage Out of Your Cabinets

Are you looking to pick up the clutter around your home? Most homeowners often complain about a lack of ample storage to accommodate all their items while maintaining the aesthetics of a room. What they don’t realize is that there’s much more storage than meets the eye.

Storage space often comes at a premium! If adding more cabinets is not an option, it’s essential to make the best of the existing space. It’s possible to improve the home organization and increase storage space by tinkering with the custom cabinets. How so? Here are simple adjustments to improve your storage space drastically.

Useful Cabinet Organization Ideas

Edgewood Cabinetry cabinetsModify Double Door Cabinets: Most double door cabinets have a divider (center stile) between the doors. The stile takes up valuable storage space that could otherwise make the cabinet more spacious and accessible. Possible ideas to get rid of the divider include detaching it vertically and fixing it one of the doors (i.e., creating a dummy stile that opens with the door) or installing new double doors that meet.

Organize and Manage Wires: Having wires and cable lying around haphazardly is a painful eyesore – not to mention the risk of tripping accidents and health issues due to dust bunnies! When it comes to wire management, the trick lies in creativity. Think out-of-the-box to find a solution that works best for your space. For items that are rarely unplugged, such as desktops, consider threading the cables along the underside of a wooden surface. Outlets for highly portable devices such as mobile phones should be easily accessible – inside a drawer, on the sidewall, or a countertop.

Sometimes the Places You’d Never Think of are The Best

Cabinet Space Above the Refrigerator: Most pre-made overhead cabinets above the fridge are either too small or too deep for easy access. This odd size and location lead to a waste of valuable storage space. Consider removing the small unusable cabinet and installing new cabinetry that encases the refrigerator. It is more aesthetically, desirable, and easy to reach. Another great idea is to use vertical dividers for the storage of kitchen appliances such as plates or trays

Keep Your Garbage Can Out of Sight: Garbage cans are a necessity in any kitchen – but that does not mean they’re allowed to make the kitchen messy. Stash unsightly trash cans in a ‘makeshift trash drawer’ under your 36-inch countertop drawer.

For ways on how to make the most of your space with custom designed custom cabinets, contact Edgewood Cabinetry.  Call 919-339-7300 for planning your custom cupboards.

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The Ultimate In Cabinet Accessories

The Ultimate In Cabinet Accessories

When you think about cabinets, you might not immediately think of anything other than boxes with doors and some drawers. However, cabinet accessories let you get so much more from your custom kitchen cabinets.

Forget about just having to make do with general storage. Instead, use cabinet accessories to store what you need in a much more convenient way.

Just think about how great it would be not to have to just cram everything on a shelf or in a drawer. You can finally organize your kitchen just the way you want.

Pull Out Trash Cans

The Ultimate In Cabinet AccessoriesIf you don’t want anyone seeing your trash can and/or recycle bin, hide them behind a cabinet door. Your kitchen looks clean and neat. Nasty trash is securely hidden behind a cabinet door that looks just like all the rest. It’s a great way to store your trash cans out of the way. You might want to put a towel near the door so you can wipe your hands off before opening and closing the cabinet door.

Hinged Shelves

One of the more unique cabinet accessories is hinged shelves. These shelves typically look like their own cabinet, but without a door. They have one or more shelves. As you pull them out to the side using the hinged feature, you can easily reach other smaller items stored on the shelves behind this one. These are ideal for storing smaller items, such as spices or commonly used accessories.

Roll-Out Shelves

Roll-out shelves are always a great idea. They’re one of the most popular cabinet accessories because they make it easier to reach things. In fact, you can customize these roll-out shelves to organize pots and pans with easy to use racks. Then, the shelves work similarly to a drawer. Roll-out the shelf, get what you need and you’re done. This is just one way to maximize your kitchen storage.

Drawer Organizers

Drawer organizers are nothing new and they can be used to increase your storage space. You don’t have to stick with just those plastic compartment organizers either. Instead, add a peg system to easily stack plates, lids and containers. For deeper drawers, add racks to store pots and pans. You can even have wooden dividers to use baking pans, muffin tins, cutting boards and more. Good Housekeeping has some great ideas to inspire you.

Spice Rack Pull Out

It’s easy for spices to get lost in cabinets. Shelves are usually too tall to store them effectively without wasting space. A Lazy Susan might not the right choice either. If you have the space, add a spice rack pull out cabinet. The cabinet is only slightly wider than your average spice container. The cabinet pulls out for you to neatly arrange your spices on long shelves. You can easily store dozens of spices and hide them out of sight in the space between two other cabinets.

Corner Cabinet Pull Outs

Corner cabinets seem like a great idea until you actually try to use them. Then, they become a challenge. How do you reach all the way back into the corner? What about the stuff stored along the back edges? A functional kitchen shouldn’t be difficult to use. That’s why it’s a good idea to corner cabinet pull-outs. Shelves pull out at various angles so you can reach everything easily. These are often called blind corner pull-outs.

Lazy Susans

The most well known of all cabinet accessories is the Lazy Susan. If you can’t reach something, add a Lazy Susan to simply spin everything around to get to what you need. You see these often when it comes to corner cabinets or for storing smaller items like seasonings and spices. They’re a classic for a reason, so don’t be afraid to use them.

Pull Out Pantry

Pantries are great, but it’s not always easy to reach what you need. Pull out pantries work much like a pull out spice rack, but on a much larger scale. Think of these are smaller pantries that fit between other cabinets. You pull it out to reach larger items, such as drinks, cleaning supplies, jars, cans, cereals and much more. Of course, you can always opt for pull out shelves and baskets to use in your larger pantry.

Feeling inspired to use more cabinet accessories in your kitchen or even bathroom? Contact us today to start designing your custom kitchen cabinets complete with the perfect accessories.

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Woodworking, Worth Doing Your Own?

Should You Take a Shot at Your Own Woodworking?

Woodworking, especially for smaller jobs, is not rocket science. It is something you can easily do with the right tools and safety knowledge. It is pretty exciting to look at your work after you’re done and admire what you have been able to do. But we must say, difficulty increases quickly and their is a lot of work that you should just leave to the pro’s. Like when it comes to custom cabinets, you’re better off just paying us to make them for you. DIY woodworking does have benifits in certain cases, and when you already have all of the tools that you need on hand.

Save Money on Small Repairs

Saving money is usually the motivation behind many DIY projects, not just woodworking. When it comes to building cabinets, the cost can be high depending on the type of wood being used and the size of the cabinet. So if you have the knowledge to do the small parts of woodwork in your house then you can definitely take a shot at doing the work yourself. However, for bigger projects, it is best that you can ask for help from professional woodworkers like Edgewood cabinetry.

Save Time on Small Fixes

Sometimes you can get something fixed faster than the time it would take to call a pro. Professionals can have many bookings which make them unavailable for your work. Instead of living with whatever you broke, you can try and fix what you can. If you can fix it yourself, great! If not, you’ll have a pro out there soon enough!

A Fun Learning Opportunity

edgewood custom cabinetry ClaytonDoing woodworking projects by yourself gives you a platform to learn everything you need to know about it. You get to learn a lot of things that you never would otherwise, understanding how things really work. Even if you end up hating it, at least you gave it a try and now you know! There is some sweating involved and even some injury, but nothing feels quite like finishing a projcet and seeing your final product.

Doing your own woodwork is a worthwhile experience as long as you have the right tools and basic safety knowledge. Do remember shoddy work will have to be re-done professionally. Trying does not hurt. However, for bigger jobs, your safety and the quality of the work needs a professional. It will cost you way less to have custom cabinets made than for you to try and learn yourself with all of the trial and error that would be involved.

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Custom Cabinets Are NOT Just For The Kitchen

Custom Cabinets Are NOT Just For The Kitchen

edgewood custom cabinetry ClaytonDid you know that custom cabinets are not just for kitchen? I thought you should know. So, there’s no limitation when it comes to the installation of functional custom cabinets in your home. Edgewood Cabinetry enhances your home by proving you uniquely designed custom cabinets for your kitchen, living room, bathroom, Study room or office.

Whether you are investing in a new home or planning to do a perfect home remodeling, you need to invest in excellent workmanship to get the exceptional designs for the modern home. Giving your home a nicer interior improves your home outlook, giving it the elegance, glamor and value it deserves.

What No One Will Tell You About Custom Cabinets?

When it comes to setting the tone and style of your home, the most important decision you can make is about installation of your custom cabinets. Edgewood Cabinetry offers you a wide variety of custom cabinet designs, styles and finishes to choose from for you to find a perfect fit that works for your lifestyle.

Regardless of the color of your counters and walls, they’ve got all kinds of cabinets. And to make sure that you don’t go wrong, they offer excellent professional advice you need. With custom cabinets, you can translate your idle space into a functional space that adds value to your home. Custom cabinets provides you with flexibility, efficiency and functionality to help you make the most out of your home without spending much.

Custom cabinets is a brilliant way to create extra storage space to accommodate your growing family. You can create amazing book shelves to make your home look neat and spacious. But to make sure that your home looks fashionable and attractive, you should invest in custom cabinets. This adds value to your home and gives you the confidence any time you want to sell your home.

Wood gives your home a natural feel and additional attractiveness in the eyes of most. That’s why many homeowners are investing in unique stylish custom cabinets in almost every room. Black kitchen cabinets were a trend there for a while but no longer.

Not Everything Is DIY

The easiest way to upgrade your home is the use of well-chosen cabinetry. Custom cabinets enhances the usability of a busy room. Custom cabinets are easy and ready to assemble and they are available in a variety of different stunning wood types and finishes.

Custom cabinets are amazing. They may look like they’re easy to do, but it truly takes a professional touch to get good quality cabinets. Even if you’re a decent wood worked you may struggle to put out anything close to the quality that we can. Save yourself the time and money, let us build it for you!

Knowing the right custom cabinet choice for your home can be challenging especially if you do not have an architectural background. At this point, you must let the experts do the job for you. At Edgewood Cabinetry, we listen to you and our work is to translate your ideas into practical designs that suit your home. By making us your cabinet building partners, we go with you a long way to ensure that get the custom cabinets you need to make your dream home come true.

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Why Leave Custom Cabinets to The Pros?

How Hard is it To Make Custom Cabinets?

A lot of people are curious how hard it would be to make their own custom cabinets, and the simple answer is that this is not too hard for a true professional, the average person could probably even do it if they followed a good set of directions exactly.

Custom cabinets are quite popular, you can find them in a variety of homes, businesses, and more. The basic difference between the custom and the regular cabinet is the basic appeal and overall quality. Custom cabinets are always going to look better and last longer than stock. However, if you already have a set of stock cabinets but just want to give them a different look, that’s an option too! Even with stock cabinets you can easily crate a unique look with a little bit of work. You can stain any way you like, and even add/replace parts that may not be up to your quality.

Why Do I Want a Pro Making My Cabinets?

While we do believe that some of our customers probably are good wood workers and could make decent quality custom cabinets, we know that we only let pieces of the highest quality leave our workshop and make their way to your home. Our job is to make the absolute best pieces of furniture that we can, and we take pride in that. You can trust us to deliver you the absolute best piece of anything that you may want, we are proud of the work that we put out there.

You may not think about it often, but their are cabinets all over your home. From the mudroom, to the kitchen, to your bathroom and bedroom. They’re everywhere! With that said, if you do want to them from boring stock cabinets to something with a little life, you can!

Refurbishing Your Stock Cabinets

Living Room Furniture StorageStock cabinets are generally regular looking cabinets that do not have anything extraordinary or exciting about them. So to make these ordinary cabinet anything but, you have to take care of a number of things. The most important thing you want to improve is the functionality, and that’s all up to your own preferences. Most stock cabinets come in the quintessential wooden material but you can always make the custom cabinetry look different with glass and metal add-ons. You always need to keep your overall home theme/decor in mind as well, you want to stay consistent.

In most refurbishing cases, you’ll want to add crown moldings to the stock cabinets to give them a more custom look. You can even add pull out, sliding doors, and deep inset drawers into the stock cabinets. Different people have different requirements when it comes to cabinets and what they prefer. So don’t settle for the norm, make sure you do what YOU want. The entire process of developing customized cabinets from the stock ones is even easier and cheaper. You won’t get the same super long lasting results of true custom cabinets but you can trust that they’ll at least be better than before! Regardless, if you’re looking for new cabinets, you need to try your hardest to get custom made ones.

If custom made cabinets are just the things you’re looking for, contact us today and let’s start talking about the ideal cabinets for you! The sooner we start working, the sooner you can start enjoying. 

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Benefits of Bespoke Furniture

Custom Cabinets Are THE Way To Go

Advantages of Custom Made CabinetsBenefits of Bespoke Furniture

Owning a home for the first time is exciting in different ways for everyone, but we all have different ways of expressing this intense joy! Research shows us that of all aspects of the home, people spend the most time and energy on desgning and coming up with a good layout for their home. People building a home for the first time love to throw in their own touch on what they do, personalize their first big project only makes them feel even more proud of what they’ve done!

Every room in the house matters; whether bedroom, dressing room, kitchen, or living room. Edgewood cabinetry comes in to help you add taste to every corner of your house. Kitchens, generally considered the heart of the home,  are loved for the variety of customizations and different designs options you can fit into them! Just be sure to keep the rest of your home interior in mind when designing the kitchen, you want it to fit in with the rest of the house.

A well-designed kitchen not only saves you time any un-nessicary headaches, it just makes it more comfortable to operate in the space. Having custom cabinets in the kitchen only improves your situation. Usually, Edgewood cabinetry’s custom kitchen cabinets are designed to the homeowners exact taste. Most people want everything to be in the right place and neatly stored away. Custom made kitchen cabinets can be expensive, but there are multiple advantages to designing them to fit into YOUR space.

  1. Offers multiple options.

When it comes to Edgewood cabinetry, the sky is the limit.  Since it is designed for your space and pace, you choose the type of wood, style, and finish of your cabinets. You can even decide on the specific storage/shelving hardware you want installed! Working directly with the cabinet designer/builder is a great way to guarantee that you get exactly what you envisioned. If you get a pre-built you may get kinda what you want, but it will never exactly meet your desires.

Although contractors aim to do quality work, jobs can quickly end up shoddy at times just due to miscommunication and simple errors that result from that. They may not capture the essence of your design, they may not even give you the options you want! At the end you very well may be disappointed, but it is too late to do much unless you want to start over (hint: you probably don’t). Dealing with the cabinet manufacturer gives you full control of the decisions to be made regarding the cabinets. Edgewood cabinetry manufacturers assist you in deciding the style, colors of floor and wall. From step 1 to step 100, they’re there! Think of it like this, for your project you’re the project lead. You decide what things look like, where they go, and pretty much everything directly dealing with you!

There are endless modifications possible for your designs. You can always change things around before they’re actually made to fit your family lifestyle and aesthetic value better.  Just make sure things are in a place where you like them when the process starts to wind down, last minute changes can be frustrating and you want the process to be as easy and nice as you can.

  1. Saves Space!

Who doesn’t need more space in their home? I know I’d love just a little bit more space in some areas. Custom cabinets can help you to save a ton of space in the house, mainly the kitchen you’re installing them in. If they’re designed right, they can fit a ton of things in them, saving you both from visible clutter and just general annoyance while trying to rememeber where something is that you had to move due to lack of space. After doing away with the soffits, monopolize the area and install a tall cabinet. Semi-custom cabinets go as high as 36,” but custom cabinets can be as high as 102”. With semi-custom cabinets, a lot of space is left horizontally, but customized customs maximize every bit of space possible. That’s the key with this whole custom cabinet thing, you’re maximizing your space and using it how YOU want to at the same time. Pretty amazing deal right?

  1. Perfect craftsmanshipHandcrafted Living Space

It takes a certain level of both craftsmanship and artistic style/ability to make a good set of custom cabinets. The craftsmen often plan on where drawers and such will go while even drawing up your cabinets, making sure no detail is left behind. Pieces of wood are cut to size and fit together, ensuring that they can slide right into place. The craftsmen prefer to use merged joints and dowels instead of nails, they give you a more clean overall look and make both assembly and dis-assembly easier.

  1. Environmental friendly

Ever heard, take care of mother nature, and she will take care of you? Custom cabinets are made using wood, a non-poisonous, semi-renewable, and biodegradable material. By working directly with the cabinet manufacturer, you can always ensure that the wood used has no adverse impacts on the environment. Some bulk-cabinet makers will use lower quality materials and things that may even contain dangerous compounds. You don’t want that around your friends and family all the time, or even at all. Materials matter almost as much as craftsmanship, make sure you’re getting the best.

Conclusion

A well-organized space preserves your time, energy, and looks more appealing that the opposite. Custom cabinets assist you in getting and keeping your place organized. There are various storage space options in customized cabinets.  They help in altering the look of the space; modern cabinets can be modified to match the interior of the house also!

Ready to start creating your own handcrafted storage options? Start by contacting us today to learn more. Call now at (919) 339-7300! We can’t wait to help you get the cabinets you’ve always wanted. 

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