Post-modern cabinet design trends

Other elements of kitchen design affect the choice of cabinetry as follows. In post-modern kitchens, hardwood floors are increasingly installed, earth tones are in greater use for painted surfaces, and wallpaper is less favored. Further trends include the introduction of more expensive options in kitchens, a larger number of ovens, the use of thicker solid countertops (2-3 inches), the use of higher base cabinets, the introduction of "quartz" countertops and countertops with honed rather than glossy finishes, higher countertop appliances, pervasive use of undercounter lighting, and the use of higher 9-foot ceilings rather than more traditional 8-foot ceilings formerly used in postwar construction. While not all are kitchen cabinet trends per se, they all affect the choice and design of cabinetry.

Ergonomics

Modern kitchen design is indebted to the ergonomic research of Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

Kitchens may include as many as fifty drawers and cabinet doors. Common features in new kitchen cabinets include deep drawers for cookware, pull-out shelves to avoid excess bending, sponge trays on the front of sink cabinets, pullout hideaway garbage/recycling containers, pull-out spice cabinets, elaborate lazy susans in corner cabinets, and vertical storage for cookie sheets. Cabinets often have full-extension drawer slides, sometimes concealed under drawers and trays. Drawers and doors may have soft-close/positive-close mechanisms.

Cabinet options

Appliance models (Continued)

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