Ideas for Better Kitchens

Five Ways to a Beautiful New Kitchen
You'll find more than 30 years of practical refacing advice, help and tips on this site. Let's start with 5 ways to a beautiful new kitchen. You could start by simply replacing doors and cabinet fronts without replacing anything else. By simple refacing your wooden fixtures you can change the entire look and feel of a kitchen, and the cost is very reasonable. Another quick and easy makeover is called the Euro look. This involves putting on an almond or white euro style door with continuous oak rail pulls and hidden hinges on your existing boxes. Another option is to paint everything white and add beautiful new brass handles and hinges. Still another option would be to do a complete refacing job yourself. This is time-consuming, but the results can be worthwhile. The fifth option is to order solid core MFD doors and paint them to create your own look. MFD doors are recommended because they have no seams and so do not expand or contract to destroy your paint job. On this site you will also find an very helpful step-by-step article, complete with photos, explaining in detail how to reface your kitchen. There is also a refacing Q&A section that has additional real-life hints and tips to make your refacing project go more smoothly.

Kitchen Remodeling Math
Most home decorators need to work within a budget. But in order to figure out what you'll spend, you first have to know what you need. This math in daily life website provides formulas and easy-to-understand charts and figures to help you measure your floor plan, cabinetry, countertops, lighting preferences and more.

Kitchen Design Ideas
Website includes information about kitchen remodeling and kitchen design. Tips include choosing kitchen flooring such as ceramic tiles and electric floor warming, which is useful in the winter months. A section on elegant countertops gives ideas for installing and choosing granite countertops, marble countertops, wood countertops, and stainless steel countertops. A section about proper kitchen lighting is also featured. A large ceiling fixture, equipped with energy-efficient fluorescent tubes will supply plenty of well-diffused general lighting, but it may leave you working in your own shadow at the sink, range, and countertops. Examples of kitchen lighting fixtures mentioned are track lighting, dimmers, decorative pendants, ceiling fans, under cabinet task lighting, recessed lighting and low-voltage miniature lights. Browse kitchen cabinet ideas, which include wood such as ash, beech, birch, oak, maple and chestnut.

30 Ways to Store More in Your Kitchen
Here’s a collection of links to articles, including how to involve your children in the kitchen. Decorating tips include adding personal touches to your kitchen, using color, patterns in the kitchen, window dressings for the kitchen and quick kitchen fixes. Organizing your kitchen, specifically by shifting dry goods into airtight containers and installing a wire grid, are good ideas as well. A section on recipes, healthy living and cleaning your kitchen, as well as kitchen safety, is also included.

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