Selecting Your Kitchen Pantry Cabinets
This article offers suggestions on how to select your kitchen pantry cabinets to make sure that your home remodeling budget is as small as possible. These kinds of projects are naturally expensive. Therefore, the pantry cabinet offer one way to reduce your costs if you are able to make use of the existing ones, if you can purchase unfinished but inexpensive cabinets, or if you are able to construct your own cabinets. First of all, you need to survey what you already have and find out by consulting with your contractor whether they can be used instead of buying new cabinets. Your goal is to ensure that the kitchen pantry cabinets that you have will be compatible with the kind of remodeling that you want to accomplish.
One way to minimize your expenses for your kitchen pantry cabinets when you are remodeling is to construct them yourself. You can research several garage shelf plans that can be adapted to the kitchen. Or you can find some plans for wood storage cabinets that are appropriate for the kind of remodeling that you need. There are various wood materials to choose from and the cheapest is particleboard. However, this may not be advisable because this kind of wood is vulnerable to moisture. You many not want to use this in the kitchen especially when the tap for your potable water is nearby. A better material would be fiberboard, which is moisture resistant, or even better is plywood, which is strong and lightweight. Do not forget to apply waterproofing and to use the proper paint or stain to further reduce the possibility of damage to the cabinets due to moisture.
Depending on the size of your kitchen, it may be advisable to opt for tall pantry cabinets to maximize storage space. Another way to do this is to ensure that the gap between shelves should not be more than three inches, especially in those areas where you intend to store your canned products. If there is still not enough space in your kitchen cabinets, you may consider using one of your cabinets in the garage, assuming that your garage is well organized and is a clean environment. Of course, the food items will need to be in the kitchen but you can place other stuff in the garage. Just make sure that these items are those that are not used everyday.
Finally, another way to reduce your budget for your kitchen pantry cabinets is to purchase used cabinets and then refinish them. Make sure that you clean these secondhand cabinets thoroughly and to use some sandpaper to remove any scratches or defects. Ensure that all traces of the former finish have been removed and that you have sanded the wood thoroughly before you apply paint or stain. Whether to use paint or stain will depend on your preferences and the theme for your kitchen. After letting them dry, you can sand the surface again using very fine sandpaper and then apply another coat of paint of stain.
