Cabinet Foundations: The Base Cabinet

When it comes to choosing new cabinetry for your kitchen, keep in mind that your choice of base cabinet not only provides you with some innovative cabinetry designs, but it also sets the foundation for your new kitchen cabinetry. That being the case, it's important that you shop carefully when choosing a base cabinet and educate yourself as to the proper installation techniques needed to get them put in properly. Everything from your countertop to your cabinets themselves, need a strong, well built base to sit on in order to function correctly and give you long lasting, worry free performance over time.

Choosing a Kitchen Base Cabinet
Homeowners might initially think that choosing base cabinetry is one of the less exciting portions of your new cabinetry to have to make decisions about, but nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, you'll have to make some basic decisions like choosing between finished and unfinished base cabinet designs. Once you get past those initial decisions, however, some of the most innovative cabinetry designs you'll have the pleasure to choose from is of the base cabinet variety. Here's a few design features to look for (whether you choose a finished or unfinished base cabinet design) that can transform your base cabinetry from boring to beautiful in the blink of an eye.

• Roll trays allow you access to the items stored in your kitchen base cabinetry without acrobatics or having to get down on your hands and knees to dig through dark spaces.

• Cutting boards are excellent additions to kitchen base cabinetry. And because you won't have to store loose models around the kitchen, you'll be saving cabinet space as well.

• Lazy susans are excellent cabinet additions for corners and other odd shaped areas where standard base cabinetry won't work.

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• Pull out trashcans and bins are becoming more popular as base cabinetry options, since they make dealing with the kitchen trash that much easier.

• Spice drawer cabinets built narrow and on the side of appliances makes for excellent storage for spices and other kitchen utensils that have a difficult time finding proper homes.

All that being said, don't view your base cabinetry as a boring part of your new cabinetry installation. Far from it, choosing kitchen base cabinet designs can be a real pleasure as well.

Base Cabinet Installation
A base cabinet is vitally important to install correctly. When properly installed they determine how much weight your cabinets and countertops can bear, how level your cabinets and countertops are, and how square your cabinets are in relation to other household appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, and the like. In fact, installing your base cabinetry properly sets the groundwork for much of the rest of your kitchen, for just that reason. If you have second thoughts about your ability to install your cabinets, talk to a professional cabinet hanger about doing the job for you. With everything from grandma's fine china to your vintage NFL beer stein collection riding on successful installation, this is one home improvement project you want to be sure is done correctly.