For those who use the kitchen as the central hub of their home, including often having guests over, cleaning will be more important for this room than any other in the home. But in many situations, especially when tidying up after social gatherings, this can be a real headache.

At AWA Kitchen Cabinets, we’re here to tell you about one area that may have more of an impact on kitchen cleaning than you had ever considered: Your kitchen cabinets. If you’re designing a new kitchen remodel using our high-quality cabinets, you can plan things out to make cleaning and organization far easier than it may have been in the past. Let’s look at three areas that are important here, and showcase how quality cabinets can make your day-to-day life a little simpler in the kitchen.

Item Storage

One of the key factors in kitchen cleaning, particularly if you regularly host gatherings, is to keep clutter away from major areas. One of the best ways to do this during the design phase of any kitchen remodeling process is to evaluate your old kitchen as it stands – what are the items that take up lots of space, either in countertops or in cabinets? How can you create new areas for these items to be placed in?

You might be very surprised at how much additional space is really available in your kitchen when it comes down to it. Utilizing it property with well-fitting cabinets can go a long way to improving your available workspace, plus simply making it easier to clean common areas and keep the entire room sparkling.

Labeling and Fighting Clutter

Down similar lines, you can take things even further by improving your labeling and basic recognition in the kitchen. This is a hustling, bustling area, and having dedicated locations for some of your most common items can go a long way.

We’re not even necessarily talking about big items here, though these are important as well – what about small items like keys, purses, wallets, sunglasses and others we always tend to misplace on our way in and out? Between these items and things like cleaning products, kitchen appliances and dishes, and numerous other pieces in the room, having a well-organized cabinet and layout situation is highly beneficial for making cleaning simpler and easier.

Quality Cabinets

Finally, no matter what you’re prioritizing when it comes to storage and organization, high-quality cabinets are the way to go. They stand the test of daily use, even if you’re switching up storage solutions regularly. Instead of wearing down and looking downtrodden quickly like low-quality cabinets can, talk to our pros about the best products on the market that will hold up for years.

For more on how the cabinet design phase can help make kitchen cleaning easier, or to learn about any of our kitchen cabinet products, speak to the pros at AWA Kitchen Cabinets today.

Kitchen cabinets are some of the defining elements of your kitchen and even your entire home’s design, and the color scheme they follow is one of the biggest factors here. A simple tweak in color for your cabinets can impact the entire aesthetic of your kitchen, and may impact decisions you make on everything from countertops to tile, accessories and more.

At AWA Kitchen Cabinets, we have a wide range of color options for our kitchen cabinets to help with your home remodeling needs. Another choice that some of our buyers look to is painting their cabinets on their own – this is often a great way to get a unique pattern, but it’s also a route some people take for the wrong reasons and without considering the pros and cons. Let’s look over some of the basics here, including a few situations where painting your own cabinets might not actually be the best approach.

Many Colors Available

For starters, as we noted above, we have a huge variety of color options already available in our cabinet models. We have every popular style out there today available, plus several others that are a bit more unique – such as cinnamon glaze or our espresso shaker dark tone.

In addition, we can help you color-match to the rest of your kitchen. Our pros have tons of experience with complementary colors within design, so we can assist you whether you have or haven’t already chosen other design themes for the kitchen remodel. If your only goal with painting is to get a great color that complements the rest of the space, you might be able to accomplish this for much less cost and hassle.

Cost and Labor

Speaking of the costs of painting, they can be significant if you aren’t careful. A few areas to consider here:

• Prep: To paint cabinet doors, you first have to remove the doors themselves plus all their hardware. Then you have to sand or otherwise remove the previous paint and stain, plus any debris, so the new paint will stick. Then, of course, you have to invest in quality paint.
• Application: Then you have to apply primer and then two coats of paint, with sanding in between coats. Some people use a sprayer, which costs extra and requires taping all over the place.
• Re-attaching: And once you finally finish, you have to put everything back together properly. If you’re inexperienced with this kind of work, you may risk losing or damaging parts. And on top of this, the kitchen will be largely out of commission during this period while you paint.
• Outside work: And if you don’t feel like taking the above steps above, you’ll have to hire out – which costs additional money.

If you’re interested in learning more about our color options and why you can often skip self-painting, or for information on any of our cabinet store options, speak to the pros at AWA Kitchen Cabinets today.