Need help with choosing kitchen cabinets so they fit with your kitchen cabinet decor? Are you looking for kitchen cabinet design ideas but are overwhelmed by the selection and don't know where to begin? Here are some kitchen cabinet ideas to get you going. Look around your home to pick up clues of the era of your home as well as your tastes. Choosing kitchen cabinets should be an extension of the flavor of the rest of your home as well as your kitchen cabinet decor.
Defining your style
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Country Kitchen If you're thinking of beautiful country kitchen cabinets because your home has a country or outdoorsy theme you may wish to go with the rustic kitchen cabinet style. Knotty pine kitchen cabinets or even unfinished pine kitchen cabinets would look great with classic rustic kitchen cabinet hardware. You could go with the ever popular leaf cabinet hardware or twig cabinet hardware. Looking to be really authentic and have a log home retreat or hunters cabin? There's antler cabinet hardware, wetland file cabinet hardware,moose cabinet hardware, bucksnort cabinet hardware and there's even a lodge cabinet hardware category. |
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Outdoor Theme Perhaps pine is a little too 'rough' looking for you, a compromise may be choosing the classic shaker style cabinets which never go out of style. Shaker style cabinets are the most basic and recognized cabinet style because they have no trim or adornments. Another similar option is mission style kitchen cabinets. Both of these styles look great in any theme of home and are the chameleons of kitchen cabinet decor because they fare well in kitchens with any style,color or texture. Mission cabinets blend well with simple porcelain cabinet hardware or even ceramic kitchen cabinet hardware which mimics the look of old wash basins from years ago. French country kitchen cabinets are also very casual and have an old world flavor to them that also blends well with any style home. European kitchen cabinet hardware, birdcage cabinet hardware or even french country cabinet hardware pair well this when choosing kitchen cabinets. |
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Colonial / Mission Style The Colonial style is currently the most popular style when choosing kitchen cabinets. Some of the design features of Colonial kitchen cabinets are it's handcrafted look with raised panel doors as well as visible pegs and dowels showing up on the cabinet door front. The colonial bronze cabinet hardware is a best bet with the Colonial kitchen cabinet. Hardware choices also include forged iron cabinet hardware as well as wrought iron cabinet hardware. The sheer strength and heaviness of kitchen cabinet hardware iron is what makes the colonial cabinet style distinctive.
With the simpler styles of kitchen cabinet decor such as colonial or mission doors, the mission style kitchen cabinets look great with mission style cabinet hardware. Cabinet hardware mission style: oil rubbed bronze cabinet hardware which has become so popular today that you can even find the trendy widespread kitchen faucets to identically match your oil rubbed bronze cabinet hardware. How's that for those who are trying to coordinate colors and materials in their kitchen cabinet decor? |
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Contemporary kitchen Perhaps you're tired of the handcrafted or country look and wish to flaunt your creativity with stylish contemporary kitchen cabinetry. When choosing kitchen cabinets you would appreciate contemporary kitchen cabinetry if you have a modern or industrial look throughout your home.
Often contemporary kitchen cabinetry is marked by unusual bright, bold accent colors throughout the kitchen or even on the cabinets themselves and modern cabinet hardware in the style of arts,crafts cabinet. Hardware is also unique in the arts and crafts style kitchen. Kitchen cabinet hardware contemporary style can be fashioned from any substance or element you can think of: glass cabinet hardware, novelty cabinet hardware,zinc alloy cabinet hardware. |
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?Modern Kitchen For a walk on the wild side why not try acrylic kitchen cabinets in a high gloss shade of chili pepper red or bright teal blue? These Art Deco kitchen cabinets look best with very few kitchen accessories or clear a accessories such as glass cabinet door hardware. The contemporary trend of an arts and crafts style kitchen favors organic elements and projects clean lines such as a stainless steel island, countertops and industrial cabinet hardware or stainless steel kitchen cabinet hardware. When choosing kitchen cabinets, remember the basic KISS acrostic? For the decorating challenged...which is most of us, creating an eclectic kitchen cabinet design is difficult to pull off when mixing different styles and textures. That is unless you already have design experience or have a close friend who is an expert. The best bet when going with contemporary kitchen cabinetry is to stick to one style.
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