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Explore All of These Incredible Kitchen Cabinet Accessories

Installing new kitchen cabinets? Great! You have the perfect opportunity to design your dream kitchen space and have everything exactly how you want it.

So don’t just focus on the exterior of the cabinets. Get the customized storage you need! Before you install your new cabinets, explore all of these incredible kitchen cabinet accessories.

Corner and Base Cabinet Organizers

Are you sick of opening your cabinet to an avalanche of plastic? Or are you tired of your entire cabinet being taken up by awkward piles of lids? If so, corner and base cabinet organizers are your new best friends.

Corner cabinets offer tons of space when they’re properly organized. For instance, a corner cabinet organizer neatly stores all your specialty appliances and the accessories that go with them. And a base cabinet organizer is perfect for storing all those plastic storage containers and lids!

Pull-Outs and Pull-Downs

Obviously, no one wants to display their trash to guests. It’s unsightly! And let’s be honest, the smell isn’t great either. So why ruin the perfect look of your new kitchen with trash cans and recycling bins? Keep it all out of sight with pull-outs and pull-downs.

With this purpose in mind, pull-outs and pull-downs offer you a way to easily store trash and recycling within your cabinets. Just pull down on the handle or slide the bin out, toss your garbage or recycling in, and close the door. Plus, emptying the bins is just as easy! Simply open the cabinet, remove the bin, empty it, and return it to the cabinet. So easy!

Lazy Susans

Imagine being able to open your cabinets and simply spin a lazy Susan to find what you need. No more moving stacks of cans or reaching around boxes. Finally, everything will be neatly organized and within your reach.

Lazy Susans are perfect options for cans, jars, and spices. They’re also wonderful for organizing coffee, tea, and cocoa. Or use a lazy Susan to organize all those cleaning supplies under your sink.

Drawer Inserts

We are firm believers that having a place for everything and everything in its place makes life simpler and better. And drawer inserts are the perfect way to do that.

Cooking utensils, silverware, and small items all too frequently turn into a jumbled mess in kitchen drawers. Fortunately, drawer inserts easily organize the contents of your drawers. And they’re customizable to fit your own unique needs!

Spice Racks

If you do a lot of cooking, you know there’s never enough room for your spices. They end up all over the place–on the back of your stove, cluttering your counters, and taking over your cabinets.

Thankfully, there’s an easy and beautiful solution to reduce your kitchen clutter–spice racks! Spice racks are easily added to any of your new kitchen cabinets, and they’re customizable to fit different size jars. So add one, two, or 10!

Wine Racks

What’s dinner without a little wine? Whether you want to display your favorite vintages or just keep bottles within easy reach to pair with dinner, wine racks are a beautiful addition to your cabinets.

Best of all, wine racks are completely customizable! So tuck your bottles neatly away inside a cabinet. Or put them on full display with a gorgeous rack that’s built into your kitchen island. Alternatively, go all out by creating a home bar in your kitchen. The sky’s the limit!

Range Hoods and Vents

What’s the point in designing beautiful custom cabinets, only to have your range hood stick out like a sore thumb? Thankfully, we have a solution. Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, we offer custom-designed range hoods and vents to match your new cabinets.

At last, you can have the perfectly matched kitchen of your dreams! That’s because we match your range hood and vents to any of our cabinet styles and colors.

At Edgewood Cabinetry, we believe your kitchen should not only be beautiful but fully functional, too. So we encourage you to explore all the incredible kitchen cabinet accessories we offer. Moreover, we are always happy to help you design the kitchen of your dreams.  Reach out today to get started.

 

 

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What to Consider When Adding a Range Hood [Part Three]

If you missed part 1 or part 2 of what to consider when choosing a range hood.

No matter what style of kitchen you have, there is a range hood to complement it!

Under cabinet mount

The most common style is probably the undercabinet mount. These mount to the underside of the cabinet above your stove. Often, particularly in small kitchens, the hood is combined with a microwave.

One concern with a combined unit is if the microwave’s electronic control panel is directly over a large burner in the front. Such a burner is commonly used for boiling pasta and soup. The large amounts of steam produced can play havoc with the sensitive control panel.

Wall mount or freestanding

If you don’t have a cabinet over your stove, you may opt for a wall mounted hood. The fans in these hoods are generally more powerful and efficient than in the undercabinet type. If crafted from warm and rustic copper or professional-looking stainless steel, these hoods can quite often make a statement in your kitchen.

Ceiling mount

These range hoods are typically used over islands. Because they are visible from all sides, they are often quite a focal point in your kitchen.

Downdraft style

These hoods sit at the back of the stove and pull the air and grease down and out rather than up and out. They are often smaller and less obtrusive than higher mounts.

Whatever style hood you choose, it should be at least as wide as your cooktop or stove; allowing an extra inch or so on each side is better.

In order for your fan to be effective, it needs to provide sufficient airflow to exchange the air in your kitchen at least 15 times each hour – that’s once every 4 minutes. To figure that out, find the volume in cubic feet of your kitchen and divide that number by 4 minutes. The result will be the cubic feet per minute (CFM) your fan needs to move.

A kitchen that is 10’ long x 10’ wide with 8’ ceilings has a volume of 800 cubic feet. 800 cubic feet ÷ 4 minutes = 200. Your range hood should have a CFM rating of 200 or higher. 

Another method for determining the proper CFM for your kitchen is to allow 10 CFM for every 1,000 BTUs of your cooktop. Generally, a 30″ stove requires a range hood that can remove at least 300 cubic feet per minute from your kitchen.

There are other considerations to keep in mind:

Since gas burners produce more heat, along with combustion products, they require a more powerful fan than an electric stove.

A cooktop located on an island typically requires more CFM than one located against an exterior wall. That’s because it requires more ductwork, so the fan needs to be more powerful in order to push the air that extra distance. The exhaust must be vented to the exterior – never to the basement or attic!

There are a lot of things to keep in mind when choosing your new range hood. Contact us and let our design professionals help you find the perfect range hood for your unique kitchen.

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