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8 Custom Cabinet Trends to Consider This Year

8 Custom Cabinet Trends to Consider This Year

If you need some inspiration for you next cabinet remodel, try some of the latest custom cabinet trends. Whether you’re redoing your kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom or any other room, these trends help add a breath of fresh air and some unique personality to the room.

While you don’t have to use every trend, there is a trend for everyone. From making a bold statement to keeping it minimal, customize these trends to what you want.

The great part is custom cabinets work in nearly any room or space. So, mix and match some trends based on different rooms.

1. Furniture Style Cabinets

A popular emerging trend is furniture style cabinets. These often have more embellishments or look like they were originally designed to be an end table, nightstand, dresser or something similar. For instance, vintage hutches are being redesigned as vanities or bathroom cabinet storage. You could take your favorite bespoke furniture designs and transform them into custom cabinets in any room, especially offices and living rooms.

2. Functional Drawers

Drawers aren’t just for silverware and small items anymore. One of the more popular custom cabinet trends is functional drawers. Turn a drawer into a wine cooler. Or use one as a food warmer when entertaining. Refrigerated drawers are ideal for storing extra drinks or even snacks for the kids. Functional drawers might look like a regular drawer, but when you pull it out it serves a purpose beyond storage. Get creative and have custom-made drawers that make your life easier.

3. Integrated Appliances

This cabinet trend typically works best in kitchens and laundry rooms. Instead of having your appliances visible as usual, they’re integrated into the cabinets. In fact, they’re often hidden by cabinet doors to create a more streamlined look.

Hide your fridge in what looks like a pantry or create a pull out dishwasher that looks more like a drawer. Even your oven can be built-in to your cabinets.

4. Increased Use Of Oak

Using hardwood isn’t necessarily a new trend. However, an increased use of oak is becoming one of the more noticeable custom cabinet trends. The color and grain look wonderful with most themes, making a versatile choice. Plus, it lasts well, even in more humid environments, such as the bathroom. While many stick with a more natural look, oak also works well with paint to match any room you want. If oak’s not for you, don’t worry, there are plenty of other options to choose from.

5. Open Shelves

Have beautiful dishes, colorful towels, or cute knick-knacks you don’t want hidden away behind cabinet doors? Then embrace the open shelf cabinet trend. In kitchens, open shelves alongside closed cabinets or even hanging over a kitchen island offer easy access and a chance to show off items. You can even add custom lighting to better showcase items.

6. Integrated Storage

While organizers are great, they don’t always fit your cabinets. For instance, a silverware tray may slide around in your drawer or a spice rack might fit awkwardly on your cabinet door. Plus, it’s hard to find organizers that work well for styling products in bathrooms.

Instead, integrated storage is taking center stage among custom cabinet design trends. Forget about settling for a so-so fit. Design cabinets and drawers to fit what you want to store. Have a silverware organizer built into the drawer. Add a slim, deep drawer with holders for hair dryers, curling irons and more.

7. More Bold Colors

Blue, grey and black are starting to take over cabinets, especially in bathrooms and kitchens. This is a major change from the typical natural wood tones and shades of white. Painted cabinets stand out against more neutral floor shades. It can also make a room seem more personal.

8. Keep It Minimal

Naturally, some custom cabinet trends never seem to go out of style. The minimal look is still going strong. This typically involves sticking with white or lighter wood tones. Hardware is simple and cabinets have few embellishments, if any. In fact, flat doors with no insets are common with this trend.

At Edgewood Cabinetry, we want to help you get the custom style you want anywhere in your home. Contact us today to discuss your ideas.

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Which Bathroom Trends are Worth the Money?

Whenever you hear the word “trend” when it comes to interior design, it’s wise to be a little wary.

After all, the word implies something that could be short-lived, and you probably don’t want to invest a sizeable chunk of money into something that’s going to look dated in a couple of years.

That said, your main concern should always be functionality. You need a bathroom that’s going to work for you and your family and the way you live.

The key to investing in a trend is figuring out how well it actually works. For example, several years ago, no bathroom remodel was considered complete without a whirlpool tub. Then people figured out that they actually took a lot more showers than baths, and the trend changed to roomy showers with built-in benches that facilitate washing your feet or shaving your legs. So evaluating a trend has to be about more than just how a bathroom feature looks. It’s got to work for you now and in the future. Here are a few bathroom trends that promise to look great in your bathroom and perform great for years to come …

36″ High Bathroom Vanities with Quality Workmanship

For years, 30″ was the standard height for a bathroom vanity, but that meant stooping over, even for people of average height. The new trend is 36″, which is a more reasonable — and comfortable — height for everyone except the smallest members of your family, who of course, will continue to grow as the years go by!

As far as the cabinetry goes, people are moving away from big-box bathroom vanities to quality cabinetry that will stand the test of time. Details like deep drawers and pull-out shelves are popular because they make life easier, and add usable storage, which is something every bathroom — large or small — always seems to need more of.

“Comfort Height” Toilets

Higher toilets are making a debut in more and more new bathrooms and bath renovations than ever, partly because of the aging-in-place concept of making your bathroom user-friendly as you age, and partly because they’re generally more comfortable to use no matter what your age.

Hidden Toilets

It’s becoming more common today for more than one person to use the bathroom at the same time, given our hectic morning schedules. Not only does a “water closet” or half-wall hide the least attractive element in the bathroom, but it also provides a little extra privacy when using the toilet.

Luxurious Showers

As mentioned, showers are the new stars of the bathroom, but they’re not the fiberglass stalls of the past. Tile is a must, as are frameless doors and curbless bottoms that facilitate entering and exiting (another aging-in-place must). A built-in bench and good lighting not only enhance the look of the shower, but also make practical sense. Double showers are popular, as are multiple shower heads or a traditional shower head plus a moveable shower head for rinsing hair or legs and feet.

You can create the bathroom of your dreams that is not only trendy, but practical too, and practicality is always worth the investment!

Contact us at Edgewood Cabinetry LLC to learn about our custom-crafted bathroom cabinetry for your Raleigh, North Carolina-area bathroom.

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And The Winners Are….

The entertainment industry may have been the forerunner of annual award shows, but every artist deserves kudos for a job well done. Designers and decorators are no exceptions. Recently, the Best in America Living Awards (BALA) announced what is currently trending in terms of interior design. Their list comes on the heels of the survey done by Houzz  (think of this one as the “people’s choice” award) predicting what homeowners should expect this year.

Whether you are starting from scratch or just updating your space, here is what you need to know:

Natural finishes, like wood flooring, have been popular for some time. We now see beams and wooden ceilings as design elements in both kitchens and family living areas. This board-and-batten look, along with shiplap, (thank you Joanna Gaines), creates a focal poi and adds a feeling of warmth to both traditional and contemporary room designs.

Customized organizational and storage solutions are high on the list of what’s new for 2017.   Wine cabinets, murphy beds, built-in recycle bins, and multi-tiered drawers reign supreme. Architects are incorporating benches, bookcases, nooks,  alcoves, and under-stair storage into new home designs and renovators are following suit.

Automation and smart appliances have moved into today’s kitchens. Thanks to the relative affordability of technology, we can have a refrigerator that composes a grocery list, an oven that can communicate with our smartphone and a Wi-Fi enabled coffee maker.

When it comes to color, Benjamin Moore has named “shadow” their color of the year. A dramatic blend of amethyst, lilac and gray, it is a shade that will contrast beautifully with the new look in appliances – black stainless steel. Speaking of color, we recently saw a farmhouse sink in apple green. Stunning.

Look for white-on-white-on-white kitchens, dark wood or black window and door frames, mixed metals, speckled granite, and quartz in the designs of 2017.

Whether you’re planning a small refresh or preparing for a major renovation, contact us for answers to the question, “What’s hot and what’s not?”

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