What’s That Called? Kitchen Cabinet Door Styles

One of the things I’m learning about the world is that everything has a name. Yes, everything. The name is also very exact. Take the world of cabinet doors, for example. If you know what you’re talking about, you can walk into a kitchen store and instead of saying, “I’m looking for a cabinet door with vertical lines up and down it,” you can say, “I’m looking for a bead-board panel front.”

I came across a handy listing of common kitchen cabinet door styles in a big kitchen design book. From left to right, that’s reveal-overlay panel; frame and panel; flat panel; beaded frame and panel; square raised panel; curved raised panel; bead-board panel; and cathedral panel.

The book is called The Smart Approach to Kitchen Design, and it’s a full-color glossy ode to what I’m pretty sure are $100,000 kitchens, complete with walls of windows that look out on nothing but nature as far as the eye can see. Which is how we build everything today, of course.

I browsed through a library copy, but if you’re desperate for some very high-end ideas or just like to run your eyes over pretty pictures, you can purchase the book at
an independent bookstore near you,
at Amazon.ca
or at Amazon.com.

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Bettering a Cupboard

Last week The Other One decided to fix our recycling space, which was the bottom of a closet in the kitchen where we stored a bin of old cans and bottles along with a blue recycling bag that kept falling over every time we opened the door.

Out came the new handy jigsaw, which will be making guest appearances all over in 2010 (more on that later):

and out came a piece of the cupboard so we could fit in three stackable blue bins that magically stay upright when the light of day hits them.

Eventually, when we have run out of things to do around here, we will fix up the inside of this closet and take down the pinky wallpaper that is only here. But until then.

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Daily Bread

Another loaf. This time, Country Seed Bread.

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The Water Fountain

When we first took a close look at the kitchen sink, we noticed that something that used to be to the right of the faucet wasn't there anymore. At first we thought it was supposed to be a soap dispenser, but when we opened the cupboard below, we saw a small tank hooked up to three filters. Surprise! We had a reverse osmosis system set up down there – but no drinking faucet for it up top. Aesthetic andy found one online, ordered it, and installed it last week. Now we can have cold filtered water any old time.

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Art Knobs

This is what some of our new kitchen knobs look like (the drawers in the kitchen are going to have something different to break things up a bit). The design is called a Cloisonné pattern. Cloisonné is an art technique that involves soldering metal to a surface in the outline of a design, and then filling in the spaces (cloisons in French) with enamel paste. Sounds fancy, but mostly they just help us open the cupboards.

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Love handles

We switched out some of the knobs on our kitchen cupboards because andy said they reminded him of beady black eyes. I threw the the old knobs in a pile on the counter and left the kitchen. When I came back, they looked like this:

 

And when I came back the next time, they looked like this:

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