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Utilize your kitchen space in the best way with custom designed kitchens

The most important point to be considered while designing a kitchen is space. A kitchen should have ample space to provide enough room for a person or two to work comfortably and without a mess. But making the kitchen extra spacious is also not encouraged as it means more time required for cleaning the clutter. The best way is to utilize the space available in the best possible way. Nowadays, many people prefer to have a custom designed kitchen in their home. These are spacious, easy to clean and offer the users more options for arranging the stuff.

Free standing kitchens
It is the latest in trend in the category of custom kitchens. The cabinets made to keep the kitchen stuff are built to give it a furniture-like look instead of the regular shelves. Various kinds of moldings, feet designs and valances are incorporated into the cabinet layout. Designs matching with the theme of the whole house can be selected. For instance, if your house furniture incorporates the traditional looking fixtures, you can give the same look to the kitchen cabinetry also. For house with modern furniture designs, you can choose colorful wood and stone for your kitchen. You will get only the basic unfitted model and you can select the fittings of your choice for the kitchen.

Apart from the attractive looks, these kitchens have much more to offer. The pre- designed fixtures come in standard sizes to support the largest size of kitchen appliances like refrigerators, microwave ovens, food warmers, dish washers and others so that while selecting them, you do not have to worry about the size of your kitchen appliances. Custom kitchens also give you the liberty to fix more columns, shelves and holders with your increasing needs.

Another trend is to include hardwood moldings into the kitchen cabinets. These types of designs provide a lavish look to the kitchen. Especially the round corners, layered wooden designs and crown moldings give a very splendid appearance to the place. These moldings are available in various colors. People tend to select dark colors for the kitchen like dark brown, chocolate, cherry and maple as the light colors require more maintenance. These types of designs will suit more if the other parts of your house also have similar interiors. These can be included in designs for shelves, columns, cornices, rails and valances. Moldings give a finished look to the layout.

The custom countertops also render you never ending options for completing the look. You can either make wooden countertops in your free standing kitchen or use stone for it. Granite is the first choice of many when it comes to selecting stone for countertops. Earlier, granite used to have limited color options like black and green but nowadays it comes in various colors like beige, cherry, grey, pink and a mixture of all that gives a concrete look. The mixed stone contains pieces of different colors of stone, metal and glass embedded together to form a strong base.

Using these ideas, you can make your kitchen a perfect place with efficiency, attractive looks and easy maintenance.   

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