You can save money and still have custom touches when remodeling your kitchen, says Jim Krengel, a kitchen designer.
Some tips from Krengel, who is design director of the Maytag Kitchen Ideas Center:
- Instead of buying a ready-made floor-to-ceiling pantry, combine two ready-made base cabinets, by stacking one on top of the other. Use the base cabinet with drawers right-side- up on the bottom, then top it with a two-door base cabinet, turned upside-down, with its toe kick-space removed.
- Base cabinets are deeper than top cabinets, so you can get more canned goods and staples into the door cabinet than you could with an above-counter cabinet.
- If there’s still room, use the cabinet top to hold an attractive, but seldom-used serving dish or salad bowl. If the cabinet top is close to the ceiling, install molding to hide the edges and give a built-in look.
- Attach wall cabinets to the sides or back of a work island or dining island in the kitchen. The cabinets can provide foot-deep storage. If you use 42-inch-high units behind a 35-inch-high island, the work area is hidden from view.
- For a decorative way of storing staples, buy a 15-by-30-inch or 18-by-30-inch glass door cabinet and turn it on its side. The glass door will then open out and down, and can be fitted with tilt-out bins for staples such as beans, peas, rice, macaroni, snacks – even dog biscuits.
- For more storage space for narrow items, re-cover the wasted space between the wall studs. The space, about 3 1/2 inches deep, is behind the sheetrock walls. It can be exposed and then painted or lined with patterned adhesive-backed plastic to house spices, canned goods, glasses and other skinny items.
- If you don’t want to eliminate a window, but it is keeping you from installing a needed storage cabinet, consider installing a cabinet with glass sides in front of the window. Then place items like glasses in the cabinet so that the light and view are diffused but not altogether removed.
Tips can help homeowners redo kitchen
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