Customize Your Backsplash With Accessories

So, you’ve decided to remodel your kitchen to give it a more modern, traditional, or just different, style. It will be important to ensure that all elements of the space, from the floors, countertops, cabinets, and appliances, work together to create a functional and beautiful kitchen. Often an afterthought in the kitchen remodeling process, the backsplash can lend a sense of elegance and chic style to the space. You might ask, and the answer is simple: a backsplash is a panel behind the sink, stove, and counters, that protects the wall from splashes. The backsplash is usually left the same color as the rest of the walls in the kitchen, but there are so many design options available that the backsplash should never be neglected. Below are some examples of backsplash designs and backsplash accessories.
Designs: The traditional material for a backsplash is tile. Tile is versatile, with stone, ceramic, and glass options, you can choose multiple colors and types to create your own patterns. Some other ideas could be wallpaper, cork, acrylic, stainless steel, or paint.
Accessories: Add storage space to your backsplash with items such as a cookbook holder, a towel bar, spice rack, utensil storage, or a paper towel holder.
If you’re in the Clayton, NC, area, and you want to remodel your kitchen, Edgewood Cabinetry wants to help. With more than 30 years of experience in the business, the design process coupled with superb craftsmanship will get you the perfect kitchen, with custom backsplashes, cabinetry, and backsplash accessories. For more information, contact us.

Five Tips on Designing a Kitchen With Personality and Functionality

Your kitchen is where memories are made, home cooked meals are shared and the family gathers to share their day. The design itself can make the room appealing, easy to use and spacious looking. While designing a kitchen may seem overwhelming here are five tips on designing a kitchen with functionality and your own personality.

1. Include something unique. Whether it's a certain non-traditional color scheme or adding your grandmother's pots and pans to a pot rack, including a piece of yourself to the design will make it more comfortable and appealing. Don't feel that you have to make it look like everyone elses kitchen, go with what you feel makes it your kitchen.
2. Don't Overcrowd. Part of making any kitchen spacious is by not adding too much to the equation. Even your countertop area can add a sense of roominess by not putting too many things on it. Add the essentials but don't create an area that looks cluttered; areas that have more space typically look cleaner as well. 
3. Utilize Cabinet Space. Cabinets that reach all the way to the ceiling have two important functions - they create more storage room and keep the kitchen clean. Not only is trying to reach the tops of the cabinets to clean awkward but you'll enjoy having more room to store kitchen items. It not only looks great but is functional as well.
4. Consider a Transitional Kitchen. A transitional kitchen combines two important elements of any kitchen - traditional and contemporary. By merging both elements you get a kitchen area that not only has balance but allows for each family member's likes to be included. A good example is stainless steel appliances with natural wood cabinets; a man-made product and a natural product in harmony.

No matter how you want your kitchen to look, the perfect look is one that incorporates your unique tastes and decorating preferences.
For a free quote on your new kitchen design, contact us. Our work is professional, timeless and elegant.

Elegance and Sophistication: Moulding in Layers

At Edgewood Cabinetry, you can customize your cabinets to achieve the exact look that you want. Gone are the days of prefabricated (or stock) cabinets that can often be bland or boring. Because the kitchen is the room where the most time is spent, you want to make sure that your kitchen reflects your design taste and style. The cabinetry is often the focal point of the kitchen because it takes up the most space, therefore you should hire craftsmen that will take their time to build and install the cabinets that will bring life into your kitchen through craftsmanship, design, and color.
Edgewood Cabinetry feels that “custom cabinetry makes a kitchen.” This is the reason that the craftsmen pay special attention to detail, ensuring that every element you desire in your cabinetry, from extra storage; knobs, handles and pulls; islands; and built in appliance units, can be brought to life. Edgewood Cabinetry will draw the plans out for you, and provide you with 3D images that include texture, color, and style, so that you can see a realistic depiction of what you’re paying for, before process begins.
Some design elements that Edgewood Cabinetry can include are:
Layered, stacked or stepped, crown moulding. Moulding in layers gives your cabinets, and kitchen, a uniquely elegant and sophisticated appearance.
Ample storage allows you to have cutlery; appliance; pots and pans; as well as food, wine and spice storage where ever you want it.
Islands provide you with more counter, cabinet, and storage space.
If you’re looking to have custom cabinets designed, built, and installed in your kitchen, and you’re in the Clayton, NC area, Edgewood Custom Cabinetry is the company for you. Contact us, and let’s get started on your project right away! 

Multi-Level Cabinets Create Valuable Mudroom Storage

Especially for families with children, the mudroom can be almost as important as the kitchen or bathroom for getting everyone ready and out the door in the morning.  They're also the perfect space for catching muddy shoes and sports equipment before they make it into the house and onto your carpet or tile.
Creating the perfect mudroom is a cinch with multi-level cabinets from Edgewood Cabinetry.  You can carry your existing kitchen cabinets through to the mudroom, or choose a complementary stain of a more durable material.  Multi-level cabinets give you the ability to store coats, shoes, and sports stuff down low where your kids can reach them, while keeping breakable or less kid-friendly items up high and out of reach.
Space providing, Edgewood Cabinetry can also install one of the most important elements of any great mudroom: a bench.  Especially for younger children, a bench to sit on while tying shoes and putting on jackets is a must-have, and we can build one that matches seamlessly with your cabinetry, giving your room a custom, high-end look.  There's no need to sacrifice style in a room that's all about function.
And if your mudroom space doubles as a laundry area, we can install custom multi-level cabinets to accommodate your washing machine and dryer, as well as plenty of space for storing your detergent and other supplies.
There's really no limit to what we can do to maximize the organizational potential in your space.  Contact us to see samples of our previous mudroom designs, and to find inspiration for your own!