Kitchen Cabinet Choices

Cabinet Choices
- Frameless Cabinets to Face-Frame Cabinets

Your Choice of Cabinets Styles Makes Your Kitchen
: Decide on your Kitchen Cabinets Early

Cabinetry dominates the kitchen. Cabinet styles set the tone for how a kitchen looks and cabinet layout makes all difference in how a kitchen functions.

If you are a homeowner remodeling or a home builder starting with a new kitchen, decide on your cabinet selection early. The decision on which cabinets to use affects how long the work takes and also sets the stage for choosing appliances, countertops, flooring, and many other related kitchen elements.

Viewing cabinet plans and pictures of kitchens from picture books, local kitchen design centers, home centers, home design magazines, and the Internet are great sources for your new cabinet ideas.

Looking inside of sample kitchen cabinets may also help you decide what cabinet style is desired. If we look inside a cabinet we see first of all a basic box. The cabinet's box is also called a case. There are two styles - Face-frame cabinets or frameless cabinets. Face-frame cabinets are an American style of cabinets and are the most popular style of kitchen cabinets manufactured today.

Face-frame cabinets consist of a frame which consists of horizontal frame members called rails. The vertical cabinet frame members are called stiles. The rails and stiles are fastened to the front of the cabinet box and adds significant strength to the cabinet.

Frameless cabinets were started in Europe originally in the 1950's and still hold the term by some cabinet manufacturers as European style kitchen cabinets. A European or frameless cabinet is a simple box, and the doors and drawers nearly cover the cabinet's case on styles and sizes of European Cabinets.

Frameless cabinets are often associated with modern cabinet styles, still frameless cabinets can easily be made to look more traditional with moldings, paneling, and other kitchen decor accessories.

Choosing the kitchen cabinet style that fits your taste is the most important thing. Remember to choose your kitchen cabinet style early, as everything else in your kitchen remodeling project centers around your choice of cabinets.