Cabinet Artistry: The 12-Year Kitchen
27.09.11
We give ourselves credit for making some darned okay choices, starting with the cabinets themselves—willow-painted maple in “Atwater” door make—simple, clean, with a vintage look that’s in keeping with our 1920 assembly. The KraftMaid designer, Matt, gets some tribute as well for asking the right questions: How much bakeware did we need to cache; how large were the range, range hood, and refrigerator; was the cook advantageously- or left-handed; how wide a sink were we ordering?
And the institution? Well, a lot of credit is due there, too.
To the extent that I’d thought about installation at all, it had been about the wall cabinets —getting them unerringly right in the vertical space between the counter and the ceiling, stacking them seamlessly one above the other, hoping that a 36-inch refrigerator actually did fit under a 36-inch cabinet. I hadn’t realized that the artistry began with the bases—I speculation I figured you took them out of the boxes and sat
Source: BobVila.com (blog)