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[T288]The Best Kitchen Cabinets

by Jason Delmar, Jas

Your vote counts. You always hear this, especially around election time. Now more than ever your vote counts, especially in today's economic environment. We are trying to save money in everything we do. We have to cut corners because gas prices are at an all time high, the costs of good and services are higher than ever and now there are fewer opportunities to buy a house and see it grow in value. What can we do to make a difference? Where can we cut a corner but still add value to our biggest investment ? the house we live in.

I needed a new kitchen, but I only had seventeen hundred dollars ($1700.00) to work with. I realize this is an odd amount, but it is every extra dollar I saved over the last two months and I decided this was the amount I was going to work with. I priced out kitchen cabinets at the big home improvement store and left the store in a state of shock. I needed a total of 9 cabinets (I don't have a big kitchen) and the store wanted almost three thousand dollars ($3,000). I knew I could save some money by doing the work myself, but the materials were still more expensive than anticipated.

After the disappointment from the local kitchen cabinet store I decided to look online for discount kitchen cabinets. This is when I came across Ready To Assemble Kitchen Cabinets. I am some what handy and the sales pitch for this type of cabinet is less expensive and easy to assemble. I was willing to price these RTA cabinets out and see the difference. I was surprised to see the huge savings. The RTA kitchen cabinets were almost forty percent less than the retail cabinets.

Since I was buying them online, quality was a huge concern. Maybe that is why the cabinets were so cheap, maybe they were lacking in quality. Instead I found the RTA cabinets to be as good in quality. In fact, there are several types of RTA kitchen cabinets and the best kinds are the ones that have plywood sides and solid wood faces. Avoid RTA products that are built out of particleboard. I found that particleboard takes on moisture and will eventually fall apart. (You don't want a particle board kitchen cabinet; it does not make sense, no matter what the logic behind it is).

So in the end, I spent less than my budget on the kitchen cabinets, I had money left over for other accessories in the kitchen and I was happy with the quality of the kitchen cabinets. I improved the equity in my house without spending a lot of money. This was due to my willingness to renovate the kitchen my self and because I used RTA kitchen cabinets. My vote goes for the RTA kitchen cabinet. This type of product saved me money and time. I did not have to leave my house; the cabinets were delivered right to my door. Saving time and gas money helped cut a corner and kept my renovation project going.

Although the amount of time people spend preparing food is decreasing the amount of time people are spending in the kitchen is increasing. Entertainment is now entering the kitchen, with flip-down TV screens, in-built DVDs, integrated coffee machines and wine cooling units. People want gadgets that make life in the kitchen easier as life-styles become more hectic. The kitchen is fast becoming a bit of a haven for people and people increasingly entertain guests in their kitchens.

Also taking into account 11.9 million people under 16 in the UK it is important that your kitchen gives you all the functions which you need; hygiene and aesthetical appeal. The amount of time spent in the kitchen means that there is more daily wear and tear and with children it is imperative that kitchen worktops have superior hygiene is imperative.

In the past, unless you had a lot of money, kitchen worktops were constructed from wood such as chip board that is laminated or veneered with a plastic coating which can resemble anything you like from wood finish to granite. Although a very cost effective way of designing your kitchen this type of surface has a poor life cycle and questionable hygiene. It is worth investing in a material which you know is going to last and one which possess brilliant aesthetical qualities and this material is Corian.

Introduced in 1967 and a registered trademark of DuPont, Corian is composed of acrylic polymer and alumina trihydrate. Corian is a durable and versatile material. Due to the nature of the kitchen environment which frequent a lot of daily wear and tear Corian is an ideal material as it resists impacts and so has a long life-cycle. Corian is also a non-toxic and very hygienic material, again making it ideal for kitchen and bathroom environments, this is due to the material being non-porous and so bacteria and mould have nowhere to hide.

The look and feel of your kitchen is extremely important as it is a room in which you will spend a lot of your time. Using Corian for your kitchen worktops is very beneficial as they come in many colours and patterns and due to the colour and patterns running through the entire thickness of the material it cannot wear away. This is massive contrast to veneered wooden worktops which nine times out of ten will become chipped or burnt.

Perhaps one of the best properties of Corian is that the worktops can be easily maintained and fully restored with an ordinary non-abrasive cleaner. In fact the material is so easy to maintain that burns from hot pans or burnt on food to the worktops can be effortlessly cleaned off. Any damage to the surface caused by wear and tear can be easily repaired making Corian eco-compatible.

In kitchen applications Corain is very easy to work with is easily fabricated just like hardwood using similar tools. Joining is also easy and can be glued inconspicuously making virtually unlimited worktops possible.

Remember you spend a lot of time in the kitchen along with your family. You want the luxury of easily maintaining your kitchen as well as having an aesthetically pleasing environment to surround yourself in. Corian worktops are a very sound investment and one which you will be pleased with for years to come.

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