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Creative Kitchen Cabinet Ideas

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These unique styles and cabinet features will add personality to your space.
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Beverage Cabinets

Drink Station Pantry
Credit: Photo: Hector Sanchez

A wine cooler, relocated from elsewhere in the house and outfitted with new beverage drawers on the bottom, turns part of this pantry into a drink station.

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Innovative Materials

Innovative Materials

This homeowner customized her cabinets by using corrugated metal on the face of her cabinet doors.

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Open Cabinets

Open Cabinets
Credit: Alexandra Rowley

For easier access to storage and to make collections more visible, keep your upper cabinets open.

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Mix of Styles

Retro Kitchen

You can mix types of cabinetry—open, closed, and glass—to best utilize your space.

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Corner Cabinets

Corner Cabinets
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn; Styling: Leigh Anne Montgomery

The intersection of two cabinet runs can create difficult-to-use storage space. Accessories like lazy Susans can help you access this space.

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Furniture Feet

Furniture Feet
Credit: Photo: Erik Johnson

Furniture-style feet adds vintage character to cabinetry.

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Utility Cabinets

Utility Cabinets
Credit: Photo: Charles Walton IV; Styling: Todd Childs

Full-height utility cabinets are a great place to store tall items like brooms and mops.

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Over the Refrigerator

Over the Refrigerator
Credit: Photo: Lucas Allen

An over-the-refrigerator cabinet is deeper than other upper cabinets. It is the perfect place for storing large or seldom-used items. Consider using glass front doors if you are storing decorative items.

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Cabinetry Disguise

Cabinetry Disguise
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

These creative island cabinets look like ordinary drawers, but really open like little doors.

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China Treasure Chest

Treasure Chest
Credit: Photography by Laurey W. Glenn,

Built-ins make beautiful solutions for any space and ensure that there is a place for everything. This dreamy china cabinet features antique French windows as doors, plenty of space for china, and a base outfitted with Pacific Silvercloth for storing silver.

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Glass Doors

Glass Doors

Opt for glass-doored cabinets to give a lighter and more open feel than cabinets with solid doors would.

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Unique Materials

Unique Materials
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

You can create cabinet door inserts using unique materials like louvered panels, hole caning, patterned tin, or wire grating.

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Disguised Cabinets

Disguised Cabinets
Credit: Helen Norman

Framed family photos that act as cabinet doors disguise ample storage for dinnerware.

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Tall Displays

Tall Displays
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn; Styling: Natasha Louise King

Use glass door cabinets for display storage in hard to access spaces.

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Freestanding Storage

Freestanding Storage
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

Use an antique cabinet instead of built-in cabinetry in the kitchen to store china, crystal, and company-worthy serving pieces.

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Cool Stock Cabinetry

Cool Stock Cabinetry
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

A deep teal shade of Benjamin Moore's Bermuda Turquoise on the island stands out against the light aqua cabinets in Benjamin Moore's Kensington Green.

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Appliance Hideaway

Appliance Hideaway
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

These inexpensive Shaker-style stock cabinets house the microwave, giving the kitchen a clean, polished look.

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Classic Finishes

Classic Finishes
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn

White cabinets, polished nickel hardware, a subway tile backsplash, and honed-marble countertops with curved ogee edges all give the kitchen an upscale look that won't become dated.

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Sleek Cabinet Hardware

Dream Kitchen Design Ideas: Sleek Cabinet Hardware
Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn and Robbie Caponetto; Styling: Matthew Gleason

Drape colorful kitchen towels over these stylish (and user-friendly) pulls.

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Chicken Wire Cabinets

Chicken Wire Cabinets
Credit: Photo: Helen Norman

Lining some of the kitchen-cabinet door frames with this inexpensive, airy material adds farmhouse character.

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Secondhand Cabinets

Charming Farmhouse Kitchen
Credit: Photo: Helen Norman

To get the most bang for your buck, grab matching cabinet doors from a secondhand outlet. These cabinets are from Habitat for Humanity ReStore (habitat.org), a home-improvement outlet that sells gently used goods to support the nonprofit.

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Neutral Treasures

Neutral Treasures

Highlight a neutral collection by painting the interior of glass-doored cabinets in a contrasting color.

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Pull-Out Pantry

Pull-Out Pantry
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A pull-out pantry component can help take advantage of an awkward slender space.

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Vintage Storage Space

Add Vintage Storage Space

Not enough built-ins? Use vintage cabinets or hutches for added storage.

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Built-In Display

Built-In Display
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Open shelving is an excellent feature for showing off all your prettiest china and serving pieces. In this case, a chicken wire screen helps soften the graphic effect of the built-in display.

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    1 of 25 Beverage Cabinets
    2 of 25 Innovative Materials
    3 of 25 Open Cabinets
    4 of 25 Mix of Styles
    5 of 25 Corner Cabinets
    6 of 25 Furniture Feet
    7 of 25 Utility Cabinets
    8 of 25 Over the Refrigerator
    9 of 25 Cabinetry Disguise
    10 of 25 China Treasure Chest
    11 of 25 Glass Doors
    12 of 25 Unique Materials
    13 of 25 Disguised Cabinets
    14 of 25 Tall Displays
    15 of 25 Freestanding Storage
    16 of 25 Cool Stock Cabinetry
    17 of 25 Appliance Hideaway
    18 of 25 Classic Finishes
    19 of 25 Sleek Cabinet Hardware
    20 of 25 Chicken Wire Cabinets
    21 of 25 Secondhand Cabinets
    22 of 25 Neutral Treasures
    23 of 25 Pull-Out Pantry
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