Refresh Your Kitchen with a Make-Over

The kitchen is often the busiest room in the home. Meals are prepared and even eaten here. The enticing smell of cooking food will draw in family and friends for a drink and chat long before the food is done. Keeping your kitchen fresh and inviting will make this room an area that’s functional as both a workspace and a gathering place. Your kitchen cabinets make a monumental impact on the overall look of the room. If you’re going to update only one feature, the cabinets are a powerful starting point that can change the look and feel of the entire room.

Kitchen base units are the cabinets that sit below the counter. While not all kitchens have wall-mounted cabinets, nearly any kitchen with counter space will include kitchen base units beneath. When you’re selecting new base units to update your kitchen, there are many factors you should take into consideration. The style and colour of the units will be the most visible feature. However, the space provided inside the base units is important as well.

Consider what you’ll be storing and select cabinets that are well-suited to your kitchen supplies. If you have a lot of large appliances like waffle irons, toasters and crock pots, a big empty cabinet space may be the best way to store them. If you have spices, canned goods and other small items to store, consider a base unit with a lazy Susan that will make every part of the cabinet accessible.

After you’ve chosen the main part of the base unit, you will need to choose kitchen doors for the cabinets. The kitchen doors are like the icing on the cake that really influence how the cabinets look and feel. In fact, you can often update the look of the whole room simply by choosing replacement kitchen doors for your existing units. As long as the base is painted or stained to match the new doors, the entire cabinet will look like new.

Kitchen doors range from simple and sleek to ornately carved. If you have patterns and other decorative features elsewhere in the room, a basic cabinet door will provide a subtle base. For a more intricate design, try doors with decorative features. You can even update a plain door yourself by painting the inset in a contrasting colour or adding a stencil to the door. Handles, knobs and pulls in fun colours and shapes will add to your kitchen’s makeover as well. Use colours and designs that feel cheerful and welcoming, such as yellow, red and blue. With a bit of a make-over to your cabinets and doors you will soon have a kitchen you’re excited to go and cook in.