Design Trends for Kitchen Cabinets
Different shades of kitchen cabinets go in and out of style over the years. A popular color can be in style for five to 10 years and then out of style for the next decade. A kitchen, like other rooms in a house, has its own feel and attitude. You want your kitchen to feel warm and inviting, but at the same time you want it to convey a sense of modern appeal. Much of this “attitude adjustment” can be accomplished with new kitchen cabinets.
Changing your cabinets is one thing, but with rising costs, it’s usually been budget prohibitive—until now. With recent developments in the cabinet industry, ready-to-assemble (RTA) cabinets have become affordable and very stylish. Now you can turn your old, outdated kitchen into the modern kitchen you see in home improvement magazines. And coupled with the help of RTA kitchen cabinets, this new look will also be affordable.
We compare prices for assembled kitchen cabinets and RTA kitchen cabinets. The price difference was twenty percent less for the assembled cabinets. Then we went a step further and compared RTA kitchen cabinets online to retail RTA kitchen cabinets. Online prices were about thirty percent lower than retail! Next we compare the quality. Most retail stores sold kitchen cabinets built from particle board. These cabinets looked great, but they are made of inferior material that will eventually fall apart or warp from normal use. By comparison, RTA’s best kitchen cabinet websites were selling sturdy cabinets with solid wood veneers and wood side panels.
Remember that the best RTA websites will advertise that they don’t sell particle board and it should be easy to spot. Finally we look at the variety. It was about the same when comparing the two types of cabinets. We found about seven to ten different shades of cabinets. These styles ranged from a light white color to a deep chestnut color. Both the assembled and RTA kitchen cabinets had a pretty good variety of colors, but because of the savings with the RTA cabinet style, we chose to assemble the cabinets ourselves and literally save thousands of dollars.
With the savings we found, we decided to jump right into our project. We chose a cabinet in a lighter shade, because we had a smaller kitchen. We thought a lighter shade would reflect light and give the feeling of a larger kitchen. We found several RTA kitchen cabinet websites and double-checked each site to compare prices. After doing enough research and choosing the cabinets, we placed an order online and the cabinets arrived about two weeks later.
Assembling the kitchen cabinets was easy (once we figured out the first one) and then it was just a matter of installation. We had a friend (who is a contractor) help us install the cabinets and then we were on the countertops. After that, the new kitchen had a light feel, a welcoming attitude, and a modern new look. We save enough money to move on to another project; the bathroom. And to our surprise we found out that there are now RTA bathroom vanities!