Special Kitchen Cabinet Embellishment Ideas
Unique Kitchen Decorating Ideas for Cabinets
Sep 26, 2009
Today kitchen cabinets have interesting styles that have finishing touches that are inspired by fine furniture and architecture. Kitchen cabinets can come in many styles including: formal, casual, contemporary, traditional, country and even eclectic.
Cabinet Legs
The cabinets can have add-ons that include light valances, under-counter corbels, and mullioned doors to help provide a more custom look. Kitchen island cabinetry can often have fancy feet, stylish pilasters, and arched openings to be able to achieve a focal-point status that is more a result of style than of location, especially with beautiful hand-carved wood island legs.
These kitchen island legs become more irreplaceable when it comes to architectural embellishments and also bringing more character and style to the kitchen island. Both functional and decorative, island legs are an essential element of today's kitchen. Kitchen cabinets include carvings, cutouts, and moldings that can accentuate the decorative aspects of the cabinet.
Cabinet Mouldings
Even if a kitchen has a modern style made up of plain, slab-finished doors and drawer fronts, plenty of embellishments can still be added. Both stock and custom cabinetry can offer such features as glass doors with mullions, ornate carvings, onlays, varied cabinet heights, recessed cabinetry,and distinctive use of trim and multiple crown moldings can transform a wall of kitchen cabinets into a more stylish looking kitchen design.
Existing kitchen cabinets can be refaced and then adding hardwood mouldings to the cabinets will give them a richness not found in other features. Mouldings are available in oak, hickory, thermofoil, cherry, and maple. These mouldings can enhance the cabinets with such details as fluted columns, valances, cornices, galley rails and open shelves, and provide both function and beauty to the kitchen cabinets.
Adding these mouldings can also a be good way to provide a more custom look to stock cabinets as well. Some examples of the uses of mouldings on cabinetry include: installation around corners and along the face of cabinetry to minimize the square look of cabinet, using in soffit areas, and installing on top of cabinets to add a crown moulding.
Some mouldings for kitchen cabinets are available in many design collections. Some collections feature decorative onlays and furniture legs to match the mouldings and complete the look of the room. When in comes to granite countertops, adding matching corbels to support countertop weight might be considered.
Kitchen cabinet mouldings can be combined in countless ways to add unique decorative accents and interesting details to kitchen cabinets.
Knobs and Handles
Other types of embellishments for the kitchen cabinets can include knobs and handles which are available in a wide array of styles and made in all types of materials. These knobs and handles can be made from brass, wood, ceramic, glass, silver, copper, pewter, chrome, bakelite, plastic, stainless steel and more. Each type of knob can still is representative of hundreds of different design styles. Wood cabinets may also feature glass panels making a glass knob a consideration - but even the different types of glass doors come in many designs and colors to choose from.
The kitchen decorating ideas provided here should give everyone some inspiration and ideas when thinking about giving a new look to any tired and outdated kitchen.
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