Lowering Cost of Frameless European Cabinets
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Comments (4)I take it since you didn't put these in you project file as you want helpful comments. next time: use LED up light crown for a softer brighter lighting the new ones with light emitters technology are dimiable and are now down in cost ,with far superior brightness I've been shipping them direct form China. The Indianapolis cetia show had a company offering 30 led cans from one 20 amp line, thus all the cans could be run with 18 gauge wire a real cost savings. Will work with RF direction which also eliminates the runner necessary for 3 4 or 5 ways. This would have given the movie foyer a better look. They are even producing 1 psc crown for this very purpose. In the Home theater area they is no acceptable reason not to have blacked out grills even if you have to spray them yourself. I'd consider building a mesh enclosure to hide the projector in black it would be sleeker. On movie poster display a neat addition is to build a frame to 3" smaller than the poster and apply LED light strips alone the edge to float the poster off the wall and provide indirect lighting....See MoreFull overlay cabinets, frameless or with frames? Cabinet choices?
Comments (13)Thank you all for the comments! You have given me so much insight. I have a lot to consider. My house was built in 1997, I don't know if this would be considered an older home? I currently have inset doors and don't love the look. The kitchen is large however I did find I could not fit dishes in any upper cabinets and had to use drawers under the counter! Space became an issue so I fill my upper cabinets with small items, a total waste! That is why I was considering frameless but now I am rethinking. I have problems with the plastic/magnetic clips on the inside. Several have broken and the doors close in and do not sit flush. Also they are a pickled maple and the stain/paint is wearing and chipping away. This makes me nervous as I am considering a white painted maple cabinet as a replacement. I currently have Omega cabinets, the boxes are fine, the finish is terrible. I am changing cabinet brands, hopefully an upgrade. The other company I was considering was Plain & Fancy but I think they are considerably more expensive. I don't know if I should just go with a wood rather than a painted finish or the better company? I find it all very confusing....See MoreLower Drawers vs Lower Cabinets in kitchen
Comments (40)Here’s a copy of something I wrote in another post, so not all maybe 100% to your situation. :-) _______ As a Kitchen Designer who is also a Certified Aging in Place Specialist, I can assure you that drawers are more ergonomic for people of all ages and abilities, which is why many feel called to recommend them with evangelical zeal. I have many many hours of study on ergonomics, work flow theory, and calculating storage ability of different options. I don’t usually explain all of that when working in person with a client, because part of the reason that they work with me is my training, background, and certifications. So, they trust my recommendations. :-) Drawers beat roll outs, hands down. Especially since most roll outs (not all) do not use the same high quality glides that drawers do. They take less grasping ability to activate, and there is no risk of damaging cabinet doors by having the pullouts move when the doors are not quite open. They are a single motion, that brings the contents to you, instead of a double motion. Standard door cabinets are WAY down the list for ergonomic storage. The one exception to drawers working better than pull outs is when you have an odd sized appliance or pot that gets used frequently enough to deserve in kitchen space, rather than pantry or adjacent storage space. It may need the versatility of an adjustable height roll out. (Bear in mind that many cabinet lines roll outs are NOT adjustable.) For instance, my bread maker gets a workout with winter soups, but the crab pot only gets used maybe twice a year. The bread maker is in the blind corner, and the crab pot is in the garage shelving. The key to a well designed kitchen is an activity assessment, and a tools assessment both. Learn from mis en place restaurant production techniques and create storage zones around planned usage stations. That may mean buying an extra set of measuring spoons for the baking area, stored with your baking pans, as well a set for the general tools drawer. Or it may mean splitting your cookware set into different storage areas. Or the donation of some items that rarely get used. A well designed kitchen, especially one with Universal Design considerations, will have a preponderance of drawer stack storage. But that is only a part of the whole. There is much more to that. If anyanyone wants to read some accessible to the average person kitchen design theory, find copies of Don Silvers,Kitchen Design With Cooking in Mind. Or Kelly Morriseau’s, Kelly’s Kitchen Synch. Both will be immensely helpful. But, so will working with a good Kitchen Designer. Especially if you are on a deadline!...See MoreShiloh cabinetry cost?
Comments (65)@Muriel Thompson I have to agree about how secretive Shiloh seems to be - I'm in northern Delaware, and working with a designer who does Shiloh or custom, and getting the details from him about the $40k he wants me to spend is just becoming too difficult, since it seems he doesn't like questions. And you're right, that the lack of information on the Shiloh web site is disturbing, at best. My last kitchen in my previous home was with Brookhaven, and I loved them, but with their business upheavals, I looked elsewhere. Not at all convinced that Shiloh is the right alternative. What's frameless, and high quality like Brookhaven? Sadly, the pandemic makes spending time at showrooms difficult. But I have to do somehting - we've got the appliances, now just have to finalize cabinets!...See Moreajc71
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