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Cabinet Design, Process, and Materials
Notes for households planning cabinet work anywhere on the mid-Peninsula. Each article answers one question a homeowner actually asks before spending money, in the order the decisions come up.
If you are at the very beginning, read the design article first, then the one on process. The color and cabinet-type guides matter most once a project is real and quotes are on the table. Prices are deliberately kept out of these pages; the cost guide handles those.
Slab Doors, Fluted Fronts, and Hidden Storage
The kitchen looks that feel current right now: handleless runs, reeded texture, appliance walls that close away, and a sober look at which of them will still please you in a decade.
Floating Vanities, Curved Fronts, Stone Basins
Bathroom cabinetry has had a decade of change: wall-hung cases with light beneath, radius corners, integrated basins. Which of it survives wet daily life, and which is a photograph first.
Arched Niches and Disappearing Screens
Built-ins moved past the bookcase wall. Arches, media walls that swallow the television, shelf lighting planned with the wiring, and work nooks that shut at six.
Sculleries, Larders, and the Breakfast Station
The pantry became the most fashionable room in the kitchen: back kitchens that keep the mess offstage, glazed display fronts, and appliance garages that clear the counters.
The Showroom Garage and Its Storage Wall
Garages are being finished like rooms now. Slat walls beside closed cabinet banks, bench zones, gym corners, and cabinetry planned around the EV charger instead of against it.
Designing Cabinets Around How You Actually Live
Start from what you store, not from a catalog. A practical walk through measuring, layout, drawers versus doors, and the decisions that separate cabinets that fit from cabinets that merely fill a wall.
A Cabinet Project, Stage by Stage
The whole timeline in plain language: the first in-home visit, the drawing set you approve, the weeks in the shop, and what installation day actually looks like in your house.
Cabinet Colors That Still Look Right in Year Eight
Two-tone kitchens, wood versus paint, dark lowers under light uppers, and why a color that looks right in a showroom can go wrong in the light of your own kitchen.
The Types of Cabinets, Explained
Framed and frameless boxes, inset and overlay doors, stock through full custom. What each term means, what each choice costs you in space or money, and which fits which project.
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