Fillers are the unsung heroes of any kitchen remodel. They bridge gaps and keep your kitchen looking polished. But despite their importance, fillers often get overlooked and bad fillers can ruin an otherwise amazing kitchen.
Whether you're a DIY enthusiast or a subcontractor fixing someone else's m...
To Do Your Demolition Right, Forget the Sledgehammer!
When doing a demolition the shows on home and garden television will tell the amazing story of a couple working a small butterfly catching business trying to renovate their dream home for the child that's on the way. They'll talk through a desig...
We Ranked Amazon’s Best Cabinet Polishes – Here’s What We Found
If you’ve ever wondered what they best way to maintain your cabinets is, so have we. For the longest time we’ve been loyal users of Magic’s Cabinet Cleaner for a while now, but it’s getting harder to find and justify the 90 DOLLAR pric...
Have you ever looked at a series of decorative doors on an island that look built together into a panel? That's called Wainscot.
Wainscot can be very expensive and an alternative to get that same type of decorative look at a fraction of the cost is to use finish panels, molding squares, and furnitu...
One of the first things you will learn as a cabinet designer is to make sure that you have a large enough filler in a corner where two base cabinets meet so the drawers can open without hitting the adjacent hardware. The last you want to do is give a customer an amazing kitchen only for the finished...
Base panels are a fact of life that every installer must deal with. Sometimes they show up in the middle of a design next to a dishwasher or an under-cabinet-refrigerator and other times at the end of a run of base cabinets. Whenever a base panel is used going into an angled corner or somewhere in t...
Light rail molding can dress up the bottom of a cabinet run and is great for concealing under-cabinet-lights. It is typically cut from ¾” stock and is 1 ½” high with a decorative profile on one long side that matches the outside edge of the door style. In this post, we’ll give you a default position...
Refrigerators come in many sizes but before you install your next kitchen you might want to take note of a few things and beware the common pitfalls that plague most installers.
In most cabinet designs, the fridge is installed between tall panels, fillers, and cabinets for a more built-in look like t...
Apron sinks, also known as farm sinks, are a very popular alternative to the basic undermount sink. They are taller, deeper, and they have a waterproof apron front which is ideal for cleaning large cookware. The image below depicts the most common way an apron sink is installed which is over a full ...
Crown molding can really make or break a kitchen design. Designers or companies that that hire you to do an installation may not always tell how much overhang they want or whether they want the crown Installed at box-depth or full flush. Box depth is simple: you put a cleat on top of the cabinet, an...
