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Types of Kitchen Cabinets

When you are thinking of remodeling your kitchen, you have variety of choices as far as kitchen cabinets. You can replace, repaint or reface the kitchen cabinets. Or you may decide to do something different like glazing your kitchen cabinets. If you do want replace them, the options are many and varied. Let's take a look at a few of them.

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Bamboo Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets Videos on Amazon
Black Kitchen Cabinets for a Contemporary Look
White Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen cabinets on eBay

Bamboo Kitchen Cabinets

An Eco Friendly Choice for your Kitchen

Bamboo kitchen cabinets are becoming popular as a way to use more sustainable wood products for the kitchen. Bamboo is technically considered a grass, and is very fast growing. It can be harvested after just 5 or 6 years.

Even though it's a grass, bamboo is sometimes call "green steel." because of its strength. It is harder than many traditional hardwoods, and has exceptional dimensional stability, so bamboo cabinets will keep functional well for many years.

It's also attractive, normally it's a lighter wood, but can be stained to many different finishes.

The major vendors for bamboo kitchen cabinets used to be located only in California, such as Laguna Cabinets and AlterEco company, but in the last few years there have been companies like Mr Bamboo that have developed a retail presence in most of the major cities in the US.

Kitchen Cabinets Videos on Amazon

For the Do It Yourself types there are a host of book around to get you started on building your own cabinets. Actually, reading one of these books is a great way to familiarize yourself with the details of cabinets, and can easily pay for itself by making you a smart shopper.

Installing Kitchen Cabinets and Countertops

Amazon Price: $17.99 (as of 12/31/2009)

Making Kitchen Cabinets

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Honey, I want new cabinets!

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/31/2009)

Installing Kitchen Cabinets and Count

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A Guide to Affordable Cabinet Refacing

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Black Kitchen Cabinets for a Contemporary Look

For something a Little Daring

Black kitchen cabinets can be very effective in many settings. Black cabinets are best used in contrast to other elements in the kitchen. Most often this is used to create a black on white setting, where the tile may be either white or some black and white pattern like a checkerboard. The same effect can be used for the backsplash or wall tile. White countertops can be very interesting with black kitchen cabinets as well.

Another way to use black kitchen cabinets is an an accent piece in a more traditional kitchen that is primarily using hardwood cabinets. A great example of this is to use black cabinets in the kitchen island to highlight it, and then hardwood for the rest of the cabinets.

Finally, using black kitchen cabinets with steel appliances can give a very contemporary or high tech look to the kitchen.

White Kitchen Cabinets

White cabinets are one of the most popular choices. White can work with a lot of other colors, and give the kitchen a bright and airy feel to it. Almost any color can be used for the wallpaper or paint and come off looking good with white cabinets. Since the cabinets are painted or laminated, the wood quality doesn't have to be as good, so white kitchen cabinets are also usually fairly cost effective.

Of course, any white room will need to be kept fairly clean, and the kitchen is the worst room in the house for that. But the flip side is that you don't have many worries about possible problems with cleaning products and the furniture finish.