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Your cabinets will be
used-kitchen-cabinets

used by you
whether old or new



You will most likely buy new, but occasionally your cabinets will be used-kitchen-cabinets. They certainly will be the most "used" thing in your home.



As the GC, you should look to get a discount on your kitchen and bathroom cabinets rather than pay retail price. You'll have to shop around to find a company that will work with you on a general contractor level.

We shopped around and found two local cabinet-makers who were in line with what was in our budget. We got a lot of custom work done including the following for our used-kitchen-cabinets:

  1. Staggered crown molding on top of the cupboards


    2. 3 inch crown molding on cupboard tops of kitchen cabinets

  2. Custom built hood over the stove



  3. Pantry cupboards custom installed around the fridge

    4. pantry cupboards are flush with the fridge front completely surrounding refrigerator cupboards built around fridge

  4. Island custom built w/4 36" pull-out shelves

  5. Drop down eating area from island, including table legs

  6. Matching cabinetry front for a linen closet in bathroom

  7. Glass front doors on 2 kitchen cupboards

glass front cupboard on kitchen cupboard doors




All the custom work only cost us about $800 extra. That amount included the island cabinets as well as the 4 pullout shelves in the island, and the custom built range hood. We felt that was a very fair price, all things considered.

The thing that gave us the ideas for some of these innovative ideas for our used-kitchen-cabinets, was from the houses we had lived in before. We had the drop-down bar-table arrangement before, only this time we added table legs instead of having a center support.



We had the tops of the cupboards staggered because we liked to look with a nice crown molding on top.

The hood over the stove was a last minute used-kitchen-cabinets idea, and it turned out to be a real eye-catcher. It really sets off the kitchen as the eye is drawn to it first thing when entering the room.

Our son's home had a unique range hood that we liked so we inquired of the possibility to our cabinet sub and he offered to build one for our kitchen too.

The pantry around the fridge was an idea we got from our son's and daughter's homes. This gives us 2 deep pantry cupboards with 24 inch depth shelves from top to bottom. See pantry cupboards around fridge HERE.

We have under cabinet night-light which connects into the electric circuitry, up behind the cabinet. There is an on-off switch for this above by the sink.

One lower corner cabinet includes a turntable, which had to be installed on site. We have a corner door that is installed on an angle.


The turntable is something that we had in another home we lived in when we lived in Idaho. It proved to be the best use of the space in the corner. See corner cabinet HERE

With a turntable, you can either have an angled door or a “V” cut out of the turntable with cabinet built into the V. In the 2nd case, the “V” door sometimes opens, or just turns around with the turntable depending upon which you ordered. I've seen them both ways and prefer the door turning with the turntable. All in all, the angled door is my preference.

A turntable in the upper corner cupboard is not recommended, as too much space would be wasted since it is a smaller depth of shelf and the turntable would only be a little one..

Corner cupboard with no turntable but with an angled door.




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