Elevate Your Kitchen Cabinets
Sourced From: Black Orchid Design. Los Feliz, California.
Refresh your kitchen in a pinch with these quick, easy and affordable cabinet hacks. Make the most of your existing kitchen cabinets by giving them a little facelift, you’ll have a brand-new kitchen before you know it. Keep reading to find out how to elevate your kitchen cabinetry.
Opt for Open Shelving
Sourced From: Black Orchid Design. Los Feliz, California.
This functional refresher can make unpacking your dishwasher a breeze. Open shelving doesn’t require the tedious opening and closing for doors and can even reduce the noise pollution in your home. Open shelving can be tailored to your lifestyle, whether you style the shelves with your favourite plants and accessories or you keep your daily products for ease of access, it’s up to you and how you want to transform your space. Our quick guide to replacing your cabinetry is below.
Open Shelf Guide:
Simply remove the doors and hardware off the cabinets you want to convert.
Remove the inner shelving and set aside, continue to clean out the cabinet and patch up holes until the cabinet is smooth.
Attach your desired trim with finishing nails and countersink them with a nail punch.
Caulk any seams with paintable caulk and leave to dry.
Paint your cabinetry in your desired finish and leave to dry.
Reinstall the shelves and fill cabinet with plates, bowls and décor.
Mix and Match Metals
Sourced From: Abaca Interiors. Quogue, New York.
The easiest way to rejuvenate your tired kitchen can be to swap out your handles. However, the choices can quickly get overwhelming. Knobs or Profiles? Antique Iron or Brass? Will you be able to see the holes from the old hardware? We deal with kitchens on the daily and find trends are ever changing.
Popular hardware choices right now are Matt Black, Provincial Style, Slimline Profiles and mixing and matching metallics. We recommend determining how you use your current handles or how each cabinet will be used. A combination of knobs and handles is always preferred, it adds interest and helps differentiate the use of each cabinet. We generally stick to the idea that knobs and handles are for the doors while using handles and pulls for the drawers is a functional option.
Once you’ve ironed out the above, you can narrow down your search. Keep the overall choices of your home consistent, from the pairing of metals to the type of handle. Using too many differing metals and types may become confusing and an eye sore. We recommend only allowing for two different metals and three different styles in one room.
Paint with Purpose
Sourced From: Tim Brown Architecture. Texas, United States.
A simple splash of paint can refresh any space, but what about inside the cabinet?
Painting the carcass can give your kitchen a whole new look, combine this with open shelving and you’ve completely changed your kitchen already. Painting the carcass also revitalise the cabinet and helps it appear new. Whether you go bold, like the photo above with a deep green or go simple and elegant with a crisp white, you’ll feel like you have a brand new kitchen in no time.
Get Gliding
Upgrading your drawers can start with how they open. Installing runners makes your drawers easier to open and close and gives them extra strength so they can be completely extended, even when they’re full. We recommend checking out the wide range of runners that Titus Tekform has to offer. Here’s a quick guide on installing drawer runners.
Step 1:
Fully extend the drawer runner, release the plastic catch and remove the draw guide
Close the runner and hold it over the pre-drilled holes inside the cabinet
The front edge of the runner should sit slightly back from the front of the cabinet
Screw the runner into place
Now repeat for the other side of the cabinet
Slide runners in and out to test that they run freely
Step 2:
Line up the drawer guide with the bottom and front edges of the drawer
Screw the drawer into place
Do the same on the opposite side of the drawer
Slide the drawer guides into the drawer runners
Gently push the drawer pas the plastic catch in the runners
To finish, slide the drawer in and out to test that it works properly
Light Up
Add a touch of glamour to your kitchen, with LED strip lights. Integrating these into your cabinetry will make looking for items that much easier and can even add a softly diffused ambience to your kitchen. LED strips are easy to install and can highlight the main features of your design. Incorporate them inside, underneath or as an external feature, strip lights are the perfect way to elevate your cabinetry. Find our favourite LED strips and lighting options here, from Titus Tekform.
Your turn
Which of these will you choose to elevate your cabinetry? Drop a comment below or let us know on our Instagram post. Don’t forget, if you’ve renovated with us, we’d love to hear your story and see the final result. Send us an Instagram DM or email us at info@cabinetdoorsonline.com.au.