5 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Kitchen Cabinets for your Next Kitchen Renovation

Apr 02, 2020
5 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Kitchen Cabinets for your Next Kitchen Renovation

Choosing the perfect kitchen cabinets for your next kitchen renovation in Toronto is an exciting process. Picking new cabinets gives you the chance to customize your kitchen to perfectly fit your personality, style, and unique needs. However, choosing the perfect kitchen cabinets can also be a daunting experience that many find themselves getting overwhelmed over.

Don’t worry—once you know the basics, redoing your kitchen cabinets can be fun. Luckily, leading kitchen renovation company Toronto , Kitchen Land, has put together this handy guide to help you get the most out of your purchase.

Here are our top five tips for choosing the ideal cabinets for your kitchen worry-free:

Take Inventory of Your Current Storage Needs

Before looking into cabinet designs and layouts, it’s important to take inventory of your current storage needs. What areas of your kitchen feel especially disorganized? Which drawers are stuffed to the brim, and which cabinets are packed full?

Often, kitchens benefit from additional drawers. A deep, tall drawer can organize your pots and pans painlessly. Larger kitchen utensils, as well as odds and ends like lighters and potholders, often require their own drawers. Drawers of various sizes can hide trash cans, small appliances, and baking supplies.

Decide Whether you Would Like Framed or Frameless Cabinets

According to Consumer Reports , starting by finding out what style best fits your preferences and needs is a great place to start. It allows you to broadly narrow down the field of options before then filtering based on budget and other factors.

For framed cabinets, the door hinges attach to a rectangular frame around the front of the cabinet. Framed cabinets don’t provide as much storage as frameless cabinets, but they offer a wider selection of door styles than frameless cabinets.

With frameless cabinets, the door attaches to the inside of the cabinet itself. This allows for greater storage inside the cabinet. However, only certain door styles support frameless cabinets.

Explore Extra Features that May Prove Useful

Once you’ve decided on your cabinet layout and style, you can start playing around with specialty features for your cabinetry.

Would you like drawers that close quietly? Some drawers include specialty quiet-close hardware. These pieces slow the close of your drawer when it’s almost shut, preventing loud drawer slamming.

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Tired of searching for things in the dark corners of your cabinets? Opt for in-cabinet and in-drawer lighting. Looking for additional organization in a large cabinet? Ask about pull-out shelving. With modern cabinet technology, there’s a feature for every need in your kitchen.

Select Your Wood and Stain

You’ve evaluated your current storage needs, selected framed or frameless cabinets, and picked out extra features. Now, it’s time to design the appearance of your cabinets.

Wood

First, decide on your kitchen decorating style. Do you want a casual, rustic kitchen? Something rich and upscale? A neutral, calming space to cook? Or something bright and energetic?

Then, browse different woods. Some woods offer rich texturing and wide variation in appearance. Others look more subtle and uniform.

For example:

  • Knotty alder and cherry tend to have more knots and grain variation.
  • Rift oak and clear alder provide a more consistent appearance.
  • Oak feels textured, while maple and walnut feel smooth to the touch
  • Both knotty and clear alder tend to be softer woods—if you like worn, rustic styles, these two will age well over time.
  • Maple, oak, and walnut are harder. These will keep their appearance even after years of wear-and-tear.

Stain

Then, select a stain. Pick a tone that compliments other long-lasting elements of your kitchen—such as your flooring or counter-top. Alternatively, you could choose to paint your cabinets.

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Wondering whether you should choose light or dark tones? Look at your natural lighting. If you have wide, open windows, feel free to browse darker stains and colors. If your kitchen only has one or two smaller windows, lean toward lighter colors. These will reflect the sunlight and give your kitchen a more cheerful, spacious appearance.

Paint

If you decide to choose painted product like MDF doors, or acrylic top doors or even wooden doors make sure you choose the colors that would compliment the entire home but most importantly highlight the kitchen, make the space look larger and don’t forget to have fun with it. Remember you can have as much fun as you want to, so don’t be afraid of combining vibrant colors. You can use them as accents or even choose you kitchen cabinets to be a beautiful mixture of colors. Use your surrounding as your inspiration. If you live on a lake or close to a large body of water you can use waves as your inspiration and use blue colour as the main color mixed with white or gray to highlight it. If you live in the country or close to a forest or park you can have a green and brown kitchen design to bring the nature from outside in.

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Find the Perfect Hardware

Lastly, pick hardware that suits your style. Give yourself the freedom to pick something that perfectly matches your personality. Hardware can be easily changed before selling a house, so you don’t need to limit yourself to neutral options.

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One tip we would need to add is for the painted product doors to me manufactured out of  MDF & HDF instead of wood. Due to the fact that MDF & HDF doesn’t expand or contract during humidity changes. Also some manufacturers offer one piece MDF or HDF door style that have no seams at all and those doors are the ideal kitchen cabinets  or bathroom cabinets  and door styles to choose for your open concept design or if your home will have issues with humidity control. Most open concept homes that are two stories or higher experience an issue with levels of heat rising to the second or thirds floors while cool air staying on lower floors. That alone can make a huge difference for all your cabinets, trims and furniture.

Bonus: Ideas for Old Kitchen Cabinets 

Now that your counters look like new, your old kitchen cabinets might be looking a bit dreary. Consider the following quick tips to make them pop again:

  • Give them a fresh coat of paint or stain
  • Upgrade hardware such as hinges and knobs
  • Consider a full facelift by replacing just the front doors

Final Thoughts

Renovating kitchen cabinets requires dozens of decisions. However, redoing your kitchen should never feel like a chore. Your kitchen is an expression of your personality—customizing it should feel fun and creative! These five tips should guide you through the basic stages of designing your layout, styling your cabinets, and picking out extra features with ease. Happy renovating!

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