The one exception to the Formica is the stainless steel island countertop. Here you can see a craftsman “grinding swirls” onto the surface to give it a midcentury modern look. Use swirled stainless steel as backsplash and behind stove with swirls to emulate steam. Use more wavelike for linear stretches.
Shallow rollout. Never let a deep drawer swallow up your holiday cookie cutters or cupcake papers again. This slim rollout hovers above another drawer, sharing the same drawer face and hardware. Cost: Jodi Tramontin of Dura Supreme Cabinetry shares that the cost of a rollout like this is $200 to $275; the feature must be added at the time you order new cabinets, as the company doesn’t offer it as a stand-alone item.
If you have trouble keeping track of your keys or preventing them from adding to a pile of clutter, a shallow cabinet installed at the end of a cabinet run may do the trick. See how designers are turning this often-overlooked space into a place to keep keychains, work IDs, notes and more both handy and hidden away. Traditional Kitchen by Tucker Cabinets Tucker Cabinets Cabinetmaker Stan Tucker of Tucker Cabinets has noticed that many of his clients are taking advantage of an extra 2 or 3 inches of space they find at the end of a cabinet run. They are turning those inches into a recess just deep enough for a mini landing zone, such as the set of hooks shown here. Tip: Assign specific hooks for each family member for easy use. Add labels to help keep track of keys to mailboxes, the shed, neighbors’ homes and all those other random keys that tend to become mystery keys.
Pegboard is another good option for the back of the cabinet, Tucker says, as it makes the hooks easy to install and rearrange. Here, the designer stacked two shallow cabinets to create a hideaway with room for keys, a calendar and a step stool. A fluted column along the side of the ovens integrates the shallow cabinet with the rest of the kitchen.
including a dry-erase or cork board on the door’s inner surface. This one even has room for a writing utensil holder and papers, making it an easy spot to leave notes and reminders and add to a grocery list. Tip: Hang key hooks within reach of anyone who will need them, and stash lesser-used items in your tippy-toe/stepladder territory.
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