Nooks and Crannies: Finding Spots Around Your Home for Convenient Cabinetry and Shelving

Are you considering doing some remodeling in your house to include extra cabinetry or shelving? 

 

You may want to look around your home in various nooks and crannies where you can find some excellent spots to place shelving and cabinetry. In fact, you might find some places that are a bit unexpected and perhaps not all that common.

Whatever that spot might be, we can build it for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry LLC. You just need to inspect your home and find an area that’s free of any obstacles.

Behind Doors

Placing shelving units behind doors is becoming a popular option as extra space to store things. The most frequent location is in the bathroom where bathroom items can frequently become a burden for storage. Closet doors that open in bathrooms, hallways, or bedrooms can be adorned with a small shelving unit that can sturdily hold more items than you think. With proper measurements, we can customize a shelving unit there in a way that stays hidden. However, the shelving may look so attractive, you’ll want to leave the door open when you have guests.

Corners in Various Rooms

Do you have a specific corner in a room that looks overly plain and needs something there? A corner shelving unit or cabinet may be just what you need for some extra storage space. These can immediately make a corner look more attractive and help a room become balanced in its interior design. With proper measurements, they also provide more of a challenge that we can easily meet. We welcome design challenges to show our expertise and in giving you exactly what you want.

Shelving Under Beds

Perhaps you didn’t stop and realize that one of those nooks and crannies could be right under your own bed. It’s not overly common that people ask for a storage cabinet under their bed, but it’s not that uncommon either. It’s a perfect idea for a bedroom bed and can look very attractive if you don’t want boxes or random junk visible under there. We can design the floor-level cabinetry in a way that gives you more storage space than you think. This includes room for clothing or random items you need to keep from getting knocked around.

Cabinetry or Shelving Under Stairways

This location for shelving or cabinetry isn’t all that obscure. Many people are finding the area under stairs to be a perfect hideaway spot where you can store items so they aren’t out in the open. It’s also essential if every other nook and cranny around your home already has shelves or cabinets. In many homes, building cabinetry and shelving under a stairway can almost create a separate room on its own.

Contact us so we can discuss more ideas on imaginative locations around your home where we can show our cabinetry and shelving expertise. We’ll go beyond that if need be to create fireplace mantles, kitchen islands, and bathroom vanities as just a few.

Nooks and Crannies: Finding Spots Around Your Home for Convenient Cabinetry and Shelving

Cabinet Installation Fixes When Floors Aren"t Level and Walls Are Out of Plumb

Cabinet installation can be a major problem when you suddenly find out that your floors aren’t level or the walls in your kitchen aren’t plumb. That’s a frustration those of us here at Edgewood Cabinetry sometimes run across in various homes. However, there’s some ways to fix that using a little ingenuity and available tools to deal with the unexpected.

Dealing With Uneven Walls

While we’ll assure to measure your walls before installing your cabinets, uneven walls can still be a problem at the last minute due to certain circumstances. Many times we’ll just use a level to take note of how uneven a wall is beforehand and build the cabinet to align properly with the uneven shape.

Another trick after the fact is to use scribes that help align the cabinet to the wall. These are usually built in automatically to cabinets for alignment purposes. With the scribes located along the lip of the cabinet in back, they’re used as a marker to help shape the cabinet properly. Scribe tools can help with this and work similarly to a protractor. By drawing a pencil line near the area where the scribes meet the wall, you can use a saw on the cabinet to shape it so it fits in place.

Dealing with Uneven Floors

Placing shims under your cabinet is the ultimate answer to helping deal with uneven floors. This might require some measuring beforehand to get the cabinet in place correctly up against a wall. It also may require more scribes along the wall to make sure everything is in alignment. You may also have to use a leveler if the cabinet doesn’t line up with the wall. Plus, a saw may have to be used again to shape the cabinet so it lines up correctly.

Old House Web reminds that base cabinets should be conjoined with screws so there’s no gaps in between. This can cause additional problems with alignment when a floor or walls are misshaped.

Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, we’ll make sure all these steps are done so it won’t mean going back to the drawing board after construction is done. Our master craftsman, Pete Rafferty, has had years of experience dealing with every uneven wall and floor, plus more. Most of all, he’ll make sure your cabinets look exactly the way you want them on the exterior as much as how they fit.

Contact us so we can help you refurbish your kitchen or bathroom with cabinets you’ll love for a lifetime.

Cabinet Installation Fixes When Floors Aren"t Level and Walls Are Out of Plumb

Color Does Matter: Finding the Right Color Balance in Your Refurbished Kitchen

If you’re thinking about remodeling your kitchen with new cabinetry, you have to keep in mind that color does matter in the final result.

Sometimes you can be thrown off by color based on lighting, and that can lead to some disastrous situations after a remodel. In order to avoid an expensive re-do on your kitchen, you need to take some time on matching your colors. In the matching process, you have to tie the color of the wood you use, your countertop color, your backsplash color, plus the colors of the wall and floor all together so it makes sense based on what you’ll actually see.

Matching Your Countertop Color with the Wall

One of the best ways to match color schemes is to take the color of your countertop and match it with a piece of your wall color. House Painting Tutorials points out this can be challenging because how you see the color of your countertop sometimes looks different from a particular angle or in different lighting situations. That’s why you should always match the two together at an angle to see how you’ll be viewing it when everything is in place at home.

Looking at them from this perspective, you gain a better sense of reality in the color matchup. The same can be done by taking a piece of the wood you’ll be using in your cabinetry and matching it with a piece of your wall, countertop, or flooring.

Finding Overall Color Balance

The general rule of thumb is that if you have extreme contrasts in your color scheme, you could throw your kitchen into a bit of colorful chaos. While some creative people do that anyway, you have to think of what your guests will think when entering your new kitchen. Considering the kitchen is a place where your guests may spend some considerable time, you can’t expect they’ll all love a wildly divergent color scheme.

You’re much better off thinking in relational terms when it comes to color. If you decide to use bright red on your walls, for instance, you might want to pick a rust or dark reddish color as your cabinet color. The same goes for your floors and backsplash.

Thinking of Lighting and Color Tone

As mentioned earlier, lighting can play tricks on the eye when attempting to match up colors. Too dark of lighting can ultimately make darker color schemes look overly drab in a kitchen. Study your lighting carefully before committing to your kitchen remodel and see whether a lighter color scheme would help brighten things. All it takes is a lighter color on your cabinets and walls to lighten up a room and give a psychological feeling of brightness.

No matter what colors you decide to use in your new kitchen, we can help build it for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry. We understand how color matters in the final result, and we’ll work with you to assure your kitchen remodel color scheme works with your lighting and the reality of your surroundings. At the same time, you’ll be able to enjoy customized cabinetry and shelving that add new dimensions to any outdated kitchen.

Contact us so we can start working with you on preparing a design and color scheme your family and guests will enjoy for a lifetime.

Color Does Matter: Finding the Right Color Balance in Your Refurbished Kitchen

Bring the Experience of Builders and Remodelers to Your Home with New Cabinetry

When you want to hire a business to do remodeling for you, the more experience they have as builders and remodelers will do you a world of good.

That’s because every remodel is going to have different situations, and a less-experienced builder won’t know how to cope with those issues. Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, we’ve seen it all when it comes to remodeling problems. And with our experience, we know how to treat you right by giving personalized services and customized designs.

What can you expect from us that you may not be able to find elsewhere? With our well-rounded expertise in different areas, we provide some options that will make your remodel go even smoother.

Working Directly With You and Free Estimates

We work directly with you so there isn’t any confusion about what you want in the way of new cabinetry. Going through contractors can sometimes lead to some miscommunication that results in redesign disasters. When the customer wants something different from what the builder thinks they want, time and money is wasted on both ends.

Working directly with you, we make sure you receive exactly the design you requested. On top of that, we’ll give free estimates before we build so you’ll be instantly saving money from the get-go.

Accurate Field Measurements

Sometimes people seeking out redesigns go to fly-by-night builders that don’t have experience, or have short knowledge on building technique. These people can give you measurements that aren’t accurate and bring you slipshod cabinetry construction that doesn’t fit correctly.

Through us, you can be assured we’ll give you accurate field measurements. We have extensive expertise working with many clients and years of building knowledge to know exactly what we’re doing.

Designing with CAD Drawings

If you’re not familiar with what CAD means, it stands for computer-assisted design. Our main builder, Pete Rafferty, had a background in illustration before starting Edgewood Cabinetry. He can bring that to you through digital design before any building takes place. You won’t always find this service in other businesses specializing in cabinetry. The 3D designs give you a chance to see exactly how your cabinets will look so last-minute changes can be made to assure your design wishes.

In-Home Delivery

Customer service is another hallmark of the best builders and remodelers. While you won’t always find superior customer service elsewhere, we improve ours by delivering your cabinetry right to your home. Most people don’t want to pick up their custom-made cabinetry in another location and haul it home on their own. Our service here gives you a chance to relax while we bring the cabinetry to you for installation.

As another mark of our commitment to the customer, we provide a warranty on your cabinetry so you’re protected if any future damage occurs.
Contact us so we can prove to you that choosing experienced builders and remodelers is always the smartest route to go when deciding on an interior remodel.

Bring the Experience of Builders and Remodelers to Your Home with New Cabinetry