The kitchen is often referred to as the heart of the home. It’s where she finds warmth and love cooking meals for the hungry hearts and stomachs of her family. To ensure an unrestricted workflow in your kitchen activities, the area must have components that make things easily accessible. A kitchen interior is incomplete without all those useful kitchen cabinets.
Kitchen furniture is, therefore, one of the protagonists that brightens up the interior of a kitchen. It can be an upper cabin or a base cabin. Kitchen cabinets are what give the interior character as it is the most visible feature when entering the area. If you feel that you have limited options to express who you are in a kitchen interior, unfinished kitchen cabinets will suit you very well. These unfinished kitchen cabinets are usually made from treated marine plywood or solid wood. It is up to you to decide which finish you will use.
Wood stain finish generally mimics expensive types of wood. Various paint finishes allow you to be creative. To give your kitchen a country feel, for example, you can use pastel colored enamel paints. If you are a bit artistic, you can use your skills and try your hand at painting a trompe l’oeil. A minimalist and yet hates it plain? You can then stencil the border designs with a shade that is slightly darker than the base paint. Or if you’re on the wild side, you can look for veneers that have animal prints. All up to you.
There really are more than a hundred ways to refresh kitchen cabinets. If you are on a budget and still want your kitchen to look extravagant, then you need to upgrade your cabinets. Cheap cabinets don’t have to be the worst you see in showrooms or stores. You can save and still have a chance to craft it.
If you long for that expensive look you see in Interior Design magazine, your local decorator can suggest ways to achieve that look simply by refinishing your kitchen cabinets. Are you dying to have your favorite celebrity kitchen that you saw in Architectural Digest? Take a close look at the picture and notice that the main features are the base and upper cabins. Don’t worry if your space is smaller than your favorite celebrity’s, you can check out various wood stains, veneers or paint finishes that can replicate your kitchen cabinets.
There are several references online and in print so you can get ideas on which finish best suits your style. He won’t be surprised if he discovers that he can have an elaborate kitchen with an Art Nouveau theme, simply by restoring his kitchen cabinets. Finishing your kitchen cabinets frees you from the design constraints of prefab cabinets. You can refer to magazines to find inspiration for your kitchen theme. Dreaming of an “expensive” kitchen should not be more, what is better is to have an “expensive” kitchen using a pinch of creativity and a pinch of patience.