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Kitchen Base Cabinets Design Ideas

December 31st, 2009 No comments

These tips will help you select functional kitchen base cabinets. These lower cupboard design ideas will sever you well when you are trying to decide on what types of cabinetry you will have in your new kitchen.

Lazy Susans
Through the years, several customers have suggested that lazy susan mechanisms are a waist of space. This is an understandable argument because the interior of the cabinets are made square and a lazy susan is designed with a circular shape. The alternative is to use full depth adjustable shelves. read Kitchen Base Cabinet Design Ideas

What to Expect When Recovering Plastic Laminate Cabinets

December 30th, 2009 No comments

Here are a few things that you can expect to encounter when resurfacing cabinets. These recovering tips come from my twenty eight years of kitchen, office and bathroom vanity cabinet and countertop manufacturing experience. Our company has recovered many kitchens and bathroom areas with Formcia.

One myth about this process is that the old plastic laminate needs to be stripped off of the cabinetry or countertops. This is not true. Only in extreme cases where the Formica is loose all over, due to faulty manufactures glue, is it necessary to remove all of the plastic laminate from the board’s surfaces. read Recovering Plastic Laminate Cabinets

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Formica Plastic Laminate Edge Coming Off Countertop

December 28th, 2009 No comments

How to fix a Formica plastic laminate edge that is coming off of the countertop by using contact glue. There are a few things that you are going to need in order to do the repair to your laminate top.

1) Lacquer thinner
2) Contact glue
3) Small paint brush
4) Rags
5) Drop cloth
6) Putty knife

With these basic tools and supplies you should be able to perform the task at hand without difficulty. read Plastic Laminate Edge Coming Off

Easy Way To Hang Large Cabinet Doors Alone

December 28th, 2009 No comments

There is an easy way to hang your large kitchen, office or bathroom vanity cabinet door alone. The materials and tools that you are going to are a small piece of wood about six inches by six inches square and some for of clam will be needed. Spring clams will not be strong enough. You are going to need to use a C-clamp, Vice Grip clamp or similar style tool. read Installing Large Cabinet Doors

Ideas For Making Kitchen Cabinets Better

December 23rd, 2009 No comments

There are many things that can be done to your kitchen cabinets to make the better. Perhaps you are getting ready to sell your home or maybe your just tired of the same old kitchen arrangement. Try any of the following things that can be added to your cupboard design to enhance you cabinetry and make your kitchen a more enjoyable place to work. Additions to cabinetry can really make a normal cabinet arrangement worth a lot more because of a few luxurious extras. read Ideas For Making Kitchen Cabinets Better