The Kitchen Remodeling Budget – Depend on an Exert Kitchen Designer

Home Owners investigating kitchen cabinetry pricing at showrooms and big box stores will find many places marketing strategies to be deceptive.  For Example: Kitchen displays may show cabinetry pricing by the linear foot.  Kitchen cabinets aren’t ever actually priced anywhere using linear feet. Customers using this pricing method and applying it to their own kitchen will be shocked to find that there actual kitchen cabinetry order could be double or triple the price they expected.   A kitchen remodel also includes the  cost of appliances, countertops, lighting, flooring and other materials PLUS labor.  A professional kitchen designer knows how to accurately plan your project so that there are no surprises and unexpected costs.  Of course, misleading your own customers at the very start of the process is a bad way to begin it. Main Line Kitchen Design offers the most competitive pricing on quality kitchen cabinetry.   We are often less expensive and at the very least least offer better quality cabinetry for the same price as available at home centers and traditional showrooms.  We will always only provide real costs that will help  customers plan their budgets. Most importantly we are expert designers and the best use of your space is the most valuable component to your new kitchen.

 

Main Line Kitchen Design does carry high-end custom cabinetry and we have a history of extraordinary projects.  This probably does stop some people from contacting us because they don’t realize we are capable and happy to work with smaller budgets.  And if you have a strict budget it even more important to work with a truly professional kitchen designer. We simply wouldn’t be good at what we do if we couldn’t design better kitchens for less money than our customers could come up with on their own.  Space or budget limits require higher creativity and more experience and not less. Creating the best kitchen possible within a customers budget is one of the most rewarding aspects of our work. Looking forward to working with you, Carol

French Country Style Kitchens, and to some extent traditional style kitchen designs, employ architectural accent pieces such as legs, corbels, capitals, and onlays.  These accent pieces can be surprisingly expensive.   A large Island leg usually costs at least $500 in any cabinet line you might select.  Corbels and capitals  range from $200 and up.    Typically crown molding costs more than $100 per 8 foot piece of molding and, in some more ornate designs, designers stack 3 moldings on top of each other to reach the ceiling. The price for all of these accents and moldings can often exceed the cost of a customer’s actual kitchen cabinetry! Here comes the good news. Crown molding, legs, corbels, capitals and onlays cost 90% less when ordered unfinished from internet suppliers such as Osborne Wood Products.  And if a customer’s cabinetry is in a  solid paint color without a glaze, then quality paint stores like Sherwin Williams can match the cabinetry finish exactly.  Only the the brush strokes can give away the matching, and a good painter with a sprayer will eliminate even that possibility.  The durability of the paint on the unfinished pieces isn’t usually an issue since they are  not moving parts and often times vulnerable legs and the backs of Islands end up getting touched up soon after installation anyway.  The crown moldings are too high up to get nicked or scratched and actually look better and usually go longer before needing touch up if painted last. If a customer selects a stained finish, the furniture stain and finishing process can’t be matched perfectly.  However if we stain unfinished accent pieces two shades darker and with a different sheen, they will then appear to be intentional highlights and will add to the overall attractiveness of the design.  The fact that they cost a fraction of the price is just an added bonus. So if a French Country Kitchen is your style of choice, don’t be stingy adding, columns, onlays, legs,  capitals and the other accent pieces that define this style.

Inset and Beaded Inset Kitchen Cabinet Announcement

   

 

Main Line Kitchen Design in Pennsylvania ( http://www.mainlinekitchendesign.com/)   was sad to see Carol Brusnahan move back to Greensboro North Carolina.  We are happy though that she is spearheading our entry into the North Carolina kitchen design and kitchen cabinetry market.  Besides her fellow designers, Carol is leaving a little bit of herself behind in the distinctive kitchens she created in Pennsylvania.

North Carolina is Lucky to have Carol back and I know how comforted she is to be in a community where she feels at home. Main Line Kitchen Design North Carolina is working with Carol’s former warehouse and shipping company Triangle Warehouse and Distribution Services. Thankfully our Jim Bishop, 6 SQUARE, Durasupreme, and Bremtown cabinet lines all deliver to North Carolina and so we can effectively service Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Raleigh, Durham, and the surrounding communities. Just as in Pennsylvania, all of our customers will receive our personalized design help inside their own homes, and receive our many thanks and a Julia Child cookbook upon the completion of their kitchens. Looking forward to many years in North Carolina, and as Julia said Bon Appetit! Paul McAlary Main Line Kitchen Design