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House Improvements

Cut Costs Through Refacing Your Cabinets

Laura

If you’ve ever endeavored on a home improvement you know that the most important part is to have the right materials, the time, and plan to make an effective project. When you’re dealing with your home you don’t want to use the cheapest materials and cheat on time when you’re trying to increase the value of your home or just trying to improve the look of your home for you and your family. As you look into redoing your kitchen you want to make sure you have the best of all of these things. But most of us don’t have the money to pay a professional to come into our kitchen and tear it all out and put in brand new appliances, countertops, and cabinets.
Don’t worry if you can’t afford this because like the majority of us you can change the look of your kitchen just by refacing your cabinets and drawers. But again as you embark on the refacing project make sure you don’t go too cheap on your materials.
To determine if refacing is all your kitchen and maybe bathrooms need go through all the cabinets and drawers and do a thorough check. Check to see if the outsides are in good conditions without any chips or dents in the surfaces. Then you need to determine if you like the general layout of your cabinets. If you hate the setup of all your cabinets than you might have to think about investing into tearing down your current cabinets and reinstalling new ones into the arrangement that you prefer. But as long as you like the current arrangement then resurfacing your cabinets may be the better and cheaper way for you.
Go check out products and prices at your local paint store. They will be the experts dealing with paint and will be able to let you know exactly what you need and the best prices to do it. You may run a risk if you go to your large home improvement store because who’s to say the paint guy there isn’t from the home and garden department covering for someone who called in sick. You want to get the best advice from the most knowledgeable source and that’s normally at the paint store.
Refacing your cabinets through a new paint job is a project that you can do on your own. Get the supplies that the professional at the store recommends and get home and get to work. It may take a lot of sanding and primer to get the base going but by the end of your project your kitchen can look as good as new just by adding some paint to the surface of your cabinets and drawers, and it didn’t even hurt the bank too much.…

Home Contractors

Unfinished Wood Cabinets

Laura

When picking up a type of cabinet to furnish the house’s kitchen, it is best to recognize the finest design, style and properties that may play an important role on the outcome of the proposed kitchen cabinet plan. Unfinished kitchen cabinets are perfect for the construction of your kitchen design. They can be painted, stained, covered, etched or just left undone. Either way, unfinished kitchen cabinets are very flexible.
Choosing the right cabinet wood will also take part in finishing the cabinets. The natural properties of wood can affect design decisions. In addition, some woods are hard, and others are soft, as different wood vary in hardness. Some kitchen cabinet wood differs in color by nature, there are those that are dark and some are light. This offers someone the flexibility of choosing the best stain for the desired cabinet wood color. If light-colored cabinet is preferable the unfinished kitchen cabinet can be finished with varnish or other clear stain. If dark suits the current kitchen d?�cor, then any dark paint available can be used to finish the cabinets. When it comes to stain absorption, not all woods have the same properties, and it’s tougher to lighten wood than to darken it. It is best to choose cleverly what type of unfinished wood cabinet to buy in order to avoid inconvenience.
Any knowledge about wood cabinets is applicable to the project. Choosing the most excellent type of wood will give you the chance to maximize your ideas on how to make your unfinished cabinet look dashing and fashionable.
Unfinished wood cabinet decorations include knobs and pulls; this will give you a chance to pick the perfect decoration that will suit your personal taste. Knobs and pulls can take any cabinet and add color and style. With hundreds of great styles and finishes to choose from, it is easy to add the perfect finishing touch to the kitchen cabinets.
There are also chic add-ons available make the perfect kitchen cabinets. This includes lighting which is more of a necessity than an option. Lighting increases the aesthetic value, sets the right mood and provides necessary task lighting for daily work.
In addition to the artistic way of picking decorations for the unfinished cabinets, you can also save money for it is cheaper than those that completely concluded stained and sealed. This is an alternative way of getting the cheapest but perfect designed kitchen cabinets.…

Remodeling Contractors

What Type of Wood Is Best for Replacing Kitchen Cabinets?

Laura

Once you have decided to remodel your kitchen, the biggest question you are going to face is what type of new cabinets to install. Today, there are many more options available than when your old kitchen cabinets were made. There are hundreds of door styles to choose from, a myriad of stain options and finishes plus different types of wood which each have their own unique features.
There are five basic types of wood used in cabinet construction. Cherry, Oak, Soft Maple, Hard Maple and Hickory. Oak is the type of wood that you probably most associate with cabinetry, it is very durable and abundant. The grain in oak is a little more pronounced than the other woods and the color will range from a light tan to dark brown. Cherry has also been used for years in producing high end cabinets and furniture. It isn’t as hard as oak but is still strong and stiff and easy to work with. The grain in cherry wood is finer than oak and it can range in color from almost white to reddish brown.
As homeowners looked for new options to get away from Oak or Cherry, Maple and Hickory have become increasingly popular in recent years. Maple comes in two varieties soft and hard. The soft maple from the Red Maple tree or Silver Maple has the consistency and weight of cherry while hard maple from the Sugar Maple or Black Maple tree is harder and stronger like oak. Both of the maples have a very fine grain and tend to be lighter in color than oak or cherry. The hard maple will be a little bit darker than the soft maple.
Hickory is also growing in popularity in the kitchen. Cabinets made of this wood are very strong and durable. The hickory wood comes from the Shagbark and Butternut trees and provides a great deal of color options ranging from almost white to dark brown. Hickory takes to staining very well which will show off the grain patterns and texture. With Hickory you are also getting the sturdiest wood in America, the stuff that the pioneers built their wagons out of.
When choosing the type of wood for your cabinets, remember that even with each individual type there can be a great deal of variation in color and grain pattern. If you have a large kitchen, you might want to go with a darker wood or stain but if it is a small room then a lighter color of cabinets will make the area seem more open. The great thing about choosing wood cabinets is that they are very easy to maintain. Simply wipe them down occasionally with a damp cloth and dry. Do not use too much water because the moisture can damage the wood. Ask your manufacturer for an extra quart of the stain that was used on the cabinets in case you have to do some touch up work later on.…