Our main motivation for starting the kitchen crazily in the winter time was the attractive pricing/sales on cabinets during the winter months. We estimated that we saved $3500 by ordering our cabinets during this special promotional period. Additionally, we plan to install the cabinets ourselves which saves an additional $1800. In the northeast you have to be somewhat crazy to live without a kitchen in the winter time. Luckily, this winter was an extremely mild winter which helped. As said previously we got our cabinets for Lowe's. We got semi-custom cabinetry which offers a surprisingly awesome number of options and crazy drawer accessories. Some of the neat cabinets to mention are a message center with whiteboard and key hangers (upper left hand corner of photo), super lazy susan on the bottom, 30" pull out drawers near the sink, and trash/recycling center. The drawers are full pullouts and all drawers and cabinets have soft-close. Our base super lazy susan is actually to big to fit through the sliding door. We're going to have to remove the doors to get that thing in.
Taking the cabinets out of the boxes was also pretty entertaining. They are all well wrapped and protected for shipping. I'm sure it will take months dispose of all of this in the recycling bin. Right now we lined the floor with the cardboard boxes to protect the new hardwood floors.
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| We have endless amount of cardboard corners and cardboard boxes at the house. |
We chose shaker style cabinets in a slightly off white color called coconut. We're excited to see what they look like once they are all installed and outfitted with the cabinet hardware.
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| Kitchen with cabinet bases |
The drawer pulls will look like this:
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| Photo from overstock.com |
And the knobs will look like this:
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| Photo from overstock.com |
We're HOPING that our large sink fits in the sink base. It's difficult to find a large sink to fit in a 30" sink base cabinet. They seem to be 24" or just about 30". This is what it should look like:
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| Photo from faucetdirect.com |
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