Using Kitchen Cabinet Doors to Add Architectural Detailing to the Rest of Your Kitchen

Sprucing up the look of your kitchen, doesn't mean that you have to do a full kitchen remodel. With the influx of home improvement shows on television, more and more design ideas are readily available to homeowners that, in the past, would have required an interior designer to come up with. Ideas ranging from kitchen cabinet doors as decorative wainscoting, to moldings as accent pieces; now, its all part of a kitchen layout. Only a few short years ago the only show that existed was This Old House. Now there are currently over fifty different home improvement shows being produced or in production. It is an incredible number and because of this great ideas are being produced.

Some of these ideas have even changed the way manufacturers market their products. One idea that comes to mind, is using extra kitchen doors to create a built-in furniture look. Some people might be asking how this is being done. Maybe the first thing to do is to define a word used in the previous paragraph and further more, clear up some other definitions. Wainscoting is a decorative wood design (almost like a paneling) that is used on walls up to a certain height. That height is usually about four feet or to a chair rail. That leads to what is a chair rail? A chair rail is the molding that divides the wainscoting and the upper part of the wall (which is usually just paint over drywall). So to sum this up: wanes-coating on the bottom, divided with a chair rail, and then finally a flat wall usually covered with wall paper or paint.

Using kitchen cabinet doors instead of traditional wainscoting panels, will help carry the look of the kitchen cabinets throughout the kitchen. If you take one or two exposed walls in your kitchen and decide to place kitchen cabinet doors on these walls you will have to provide proper spacing and suitable placement. You dont want to over populate the walls with kitchen cabinet doors, instead even spacing will make the wall look classy and define it as a showpiece.

So a nice row of kitchen cabinet doors along one or two walls can be a great accent to any kitchen. But where else could this idea work? Maybe you only have a small kitchen with limited wall space and this idea just does not work; but you still want something different. Another option is centering a kitchen cabinet door on the back side of an island. Instead of using a blank island panel, put one or two kitchen cabinet doors on top of the panel. Just keep the blank island panel and place the doors on top. It is a nice feature and makes for a very tasteful finish.

With these ideas you can grow your kitchen into something special. And from this maybe you will come up with your own ideas to enhance the look of your kitchen. Just remember to ask your cabinet retailer if they sell separate kitchen cabinet doors. Other than that, your kitchen is only limited to your own creativity.

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