Cabinetry Ideas for Your New Kitchen

If you hire a joinery cabinet maker to construct your new kitchen storage, you can customise it to serve your specific needs. To get some ideas on planning your new space, consider the following ideas.

Upper Cabinetry Alternatives

While upper cabinets are standard in many kitchens, you could rearrange your space differently. You could build open shelves instead. Remember that what you store will be on display, though, so you'll need to keep things relatively ordered. You could arrange crockery and mugs or spices and other frequently used items. Rather than constructing two or three shelves, you could install one long shelf along the cabinets' length. Open shelving makes a kitchen feel more spacious as large areas aren't taken up by closed cupboards that effectively bring the wall closer.

Hidden Storage

Kitchen cabinets often create a cluttered look, consisting of numerous doors with handles sprinkled all over the area. You could hide your storage behind smooth handless doors for a minimal and streamlined look to reverse this. With some designs, the smooth face can look like a panelled wall rather than a multitude of cupboards, so the storage is expertly hidden. To stop appliances like stovetops and fridges from ruining the smooth effect, you can integrate them behind doors also. Sliding doors across a pantry are another possibility. If they hang and move along a horizontal top rail, the door's mechanism will be less obvious and more discrete.

Drawer Power

Standard cabinets and pantries can create a lot of dead unusable space. If you consider a regular cupboard with one halfway-shelf, they leave a lot of area at the top of each compartment that can't be used. Similarly, the back shelves of a pantry or cupboard can be wasted.

You can rectify this by installing drawers instead. You could fit deep drawers to contain saucepans, pots and pans and other large items. Additional drawers can hold things such as pottery and mugs. Drawers with less depth can house cutlery and cooking utensils. By fitting inserts within, you'll have a place for everything in an organised way, and you won't have to scrummage around to search for lost items. Drawers make use of all areas, they don't waste vertical space, and you can pull drawers out to easily reach the back. Forget about getting on your knees to reach into the dark recesses of old-fashioned cupboard spaces to find what you're looking for.

Contact a local joinery to get more ideas.