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7 Surprising Areas To Add Custom Cabinets

Usually, you add custom cabinets to your kitchen, but that’s not the only room that deserves custom cabinetry. In fact, you can make over your entire home just by adding the right cabinets.

Since cabinets are all about helping your with storage and organization, imagine how nice it’d be to have cabinets throughout your home.

By opting for custom cabinets, you get the perfect size and storage you need for your exact space. With no compromises, you’re able to organize your home the way you want.

1. Living Room

Living rooms and family rooms are often overlooked with it comes to custom cabinetry. However, they’re the perfect place to add custom cabinets. Usually, you have magazines, electronics, remotes and maybe even kids’ toys. You might even want a place to store a few extra blankets or pillows to lounge on the couch while watching TV.

Turning your entertainment center into custom cabinets that perfectly fit your electronics, books, magazines and everything else makes your entire living room look more spacious and organized. You can also have cabinets behind your couch or along a wall.

2. Hallways

Hallways are probably one of the most surprising places to add custom cabinets. While you don’t have much space, thinner cabinets work well to give you easy access to coats, gloves and hats if you don’t have a hallway closet. You can also add small bins to store toys, blankets and more.

3. Garage

Often, people opt for pre-built cabinets in their garages or just shelving units. But, you can makeover your garage with custom cabinets. Get the perfect storage for all the random stuff that gets stored in the garage. You can create custom storage for tools, set up closed shelving to keep dirt and dust off of your holiday decorations and packed away keepsakes.

Instead of everything falling off of shelves, it’s neatly tucked away out of sight. Your garage looks nicer and you have the optimal storage. You could even turn part of your garage into a custom mudroom.

4. Laundry Room

Detergents, towels and your iron all deserve a nice place to stay. That’s why it’s a great idea to add custom cabinets to your laundry room. Instead of just a barebones washer and dryer with a shelf, get cabinets to store everything. You can even add a foldaway ironing board inside a cabinet and a drying rack between cabinets.

It’s also a great place to store extra towels and bedding. Or, use it as temporary storage for clean clothes for each member of the household to collect.

5. Closet

Closets don’t always have the most space. However, whether it’s a small coat closet or a large bedroom closet, custom cabinets make a good addition. With custom cabinets, you don’t have to worry about whether they’ll fit or not. In fact, you could even use cabinets to transfer a medium-sized closet into a home office. A few cabinets and a chair is all you really need to go from closet to office.

6. Dining Room

Usually, dining rooms get a hutch or no real storage at all. But, your dining room is a great place to display your fine china, store extra silverware, keep tablecloths or just have some extra space for larger countertop appliances you don’t use all that often. You can add custom cabinets along one wall or even use cabinets as a divider between your kitchen and dining room if they’re made together.

7. Bedroom

For bedroom furniture, you usually have a nightstand, chest of drawers and dresser. Most people don’t think about using cabinets, though. You can build a custom wardrobe or cabinets that serve as a chest of drawers, but fit your clothing better.

For a kid’s room, cabinets are the perfect addition. Kids can store their toys, shoes and more. They can even use the top of cabinets as a play area. Plus, their rooms might just look neater.

If you’re ready to add custom cabinets throughout your home, contact Edgewood Cabinetry today to discuss your projects.

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Benefits Of Built-In Living Room Cabinets

When it comes to living room storage, you have two main options – free-standing and built-in living room cabinets. Usually, built-in works out better in every way.

While it’s not as easy to move built-in cabinets, they do have a variety of benefits over their free-standing counterparts. Plus, they’re the perfect way to remodel your living room while gaining more space.

If you’re not sure they’re right for you, consider the benefits. And then, start making plans for built-in cabinets that help transform your living room.

Fits The Space Perfectly

The biggest benefit of built-in living room cabinets is they always fit the space perfectly. When you buy free-standing or stand-alone bookcases and cabinets, it’s impossible to get the right fit. This leaves you with small areas where dust and random small objects accumulate. You also get left with gaps that could have been used for storage.

Built-in means the cabinets are built specifically for your space and to fit within or along the wall. They can be built around existing features, such as a fireplace and mantle. When installed, they look like they always belonged there. Even in more unusual areas of your living room, built-ins fit perfectly.

No Risk Of Tipping

If you’ve ever accidentally put too much on the top shelves of a bookcase, you already know how easy it is for stand-alone storage to tip over. If you have small children, the risk is even greater if they try to climb when you’re not looking. While shelves on built-in living room cabinets might give way, the entire structure won’t.

Built-in cabinets are either built into the existing wall or connected to the wall, filling in the space along the wall. This eliminates the tipping aspect, helping your storage last much longer.

Blends Seamlessly

Handcrafted storage blends seamlessly into your home. It creates a more organized look instantly. Plus, you don’t have to worry about trying to find a match when a bookcase wears out or you need to replace a cabinet. Since these are built in, they’re made to match the walls, molding and style of your living room.

Even when you add them later, they’ll appear as if they truly belong. Anyone visiting you for the first time will just assume the cabinets were built with the home.

Makes The Room Seem Larger

Free-standing storage takes up a surprising amount of space. In fact, these storage options can make a room appear smaller. While there are plenty creative ways to get more storage out of smaller spaces in your home, built-in living room cabinets give you storage while making your room seem larger.

Since the cabinets are made to fit your space and storage needs, there’s no wasted space. The cabinets are also flush against the wall, making the storage seem more compact, even while giving you more overall storage space. Another way the room seems larger is it appears more organized with the way the storage blends into the space.

Customize The Storage

Of course, a final benefit is customization. Unlike free-standing cabinets, you don’t have to settle for limited sizes, standard spacing between shelves, and cabinets that won’t quite fit what you need. Instead, built-in living room cabinets are completely customizable. Need shelves of different heights from one side to the next? No problem.

Maybe you want cabinet doors on part of the cabinets, but open shelving on the rest. Of course, you may want to turn part of your cabinets into an entertainment center. This means adding room for a TV, gaming consoles, modem, cable box and more, plus fitting in ways to hide all the cables.

All of this is easy to customize. After all, it’s your storage and it should fit your needs and living room.

Looking to create the perfect built-in living room cabinets for your home? Contact Edgewood Cabinetry today to learn more.

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Vintage style custom kitchen cabinet

Understanding the Benefits of Custom Cabinets in a Living Space

There is a growing trend in people personalizing their houses to meet their needs. The growing trend is with custom cabinets in Raleigh, NC. You might be wondering what benefits a custom cabinet could give you that a normal one cannot. It is clear right off the bat that a custom cabinet is more expensive in comparison to normal cabinets and semi-custom ones. However, they offer a longer shelf life, the extra storage that you want, and can add a lot of character to the home.

Cabinet Materials Matter

Most people assume that the term ‘custom cabinets’ means that they are better than the rest. The quality of the cabinet depends on the material used to make it. This is what people like most; they the choice of selecting long-lasting materials instead of settling for readymade cabinets that are made out of low-quality materials. The readymade cabinets are known as stock cabinets and they are the cheaper option since they are displayed on the shelf waiting for the consumers to purchase them and affix. Semi-custom cabinets are partially built before a person makes an order. They are slightly unfinished in order for the customer to personalize it some. Below are some of the benefits of selecting a custom cabinet in Raleigh, NC for your home.

Benefits of a Custom Cabinet

  1. Vintage style custom kitchen cabinetPersonalization: They fit the unique design of the room, storage preferences, cooking habits, and design preferences and lifestyle of the person. Stock cabinets are average and are the best fit for averagely designed spaces. If your home is unique or you want to make it that way, they custom cabinets are for you.
  2. Fit the space: If space has an odd or abnormal shape, the last thing you should think about doing is trying to fit a stock cabinet. A custom cabinet by Edgewood Cabinetry is bound to meet your needs and fit the required space. They are built to fit right where you want them, rather than having to adjust them to get them to fit where you want.
  3. Choice of materials: You can customize the cabinet further by choosing the materials that will be used to make it. You have the option of choosing the finish, style and wood used to make it. If you choose to use semi-custom and stock cabinets, you just won’t have this option. If you want to have more control over the design of your home, custom cabinets are what you need.
  4. Increased storage space: Not all cabinets have the same amount of storage space available. Limiting yourself to pre-fabricated cabinets could leave you lacking a lot of the storage space that you desperately wanted. The beauty of a custom cabinet is that you can measure the space and make cabinets that fit any space, even if it is abnormally large or small. It also gives you the chance to get creative, you could decide to set up abnormally long cabinetry or add more cabinets. They are YOUR cabinets.

If custom made cabinets sound like just the thing for you or a loved one, contact us today and let’s start talking about the ideal cabinets for you!