A Customized Home Creation

Customizing cabinets can offer a one-of-a-kind look. Embellish clean-line cabinet doors such as recessed-panel Shaker-style or flat-front contemporary panels with molding. Create depth and dimension in your new kitchen by staggering cabinets – a very affordable new home builder option to make your kitchen custom.

Play Up Hardware

Different pieces of refurbished antique hardware dress up cabinet doors and drawers with unique new home style. The aged pieces compliment the aged style of glazed cabinets.  If contemporary is more your new home style, add sleek pulls in brushed or glossy nickel.

Display Collectibles

Use glass doors to showcase personal collections of fine antiques, sentimental glassware, or playful pottery. Display colorful dishes to energize an all-white kitchen. There are so many ways to make your new home feel established, cozy and lived-in. Proudly display collectibles in your new home.

Disguise Clutter

Textured glass in upper cabinets helps define the open storage without demanding neatness. Mismatched dishware is muted behind textured glass panels.  This is an easy and affordable new home option that will customize your kitchen and make it more welcoming by softening the hard lines of the cabinets.

Include Decorative Molding

Add character to new home cabinetry with traditional or contemporary moldings. A decorative addition in a contrasting stain can give classic, cream-color cabinets a little extra energy.

Contrast a Dark Finish

Textured glass panels and black-glazed zinc knobs accent the black-painted cabinet doors, glazed in cinnamon red for greater depth. Flooring and countertops that contrast with the cabinet color can also infuse energy and style into a space.

Mix It Up

Warm wood door fronts blended into crisp white cabinetry creates noteworthy contrast and visual interest in this clean-lined kitchen. Equally bright and light, the wood adds warmth and color to the monochromatic room.

Make a Memo Board

Inset a tall cabinetry panel with an old-fashioned chalkboard to serve as a large message pad. Or paint a cabinet door with chalkboard paint. A pantry door is the ideal size and the perfect location for jotting grocery lists, snack suggestions, and don’t-miss messages. Too scared to do this on the outside of the cabinets? We understand.  Try it on the inside for a sleek, hidden and multi-functional cabinet!

Get Innovative

Transform a standard cabinet location into an appliance garage. Opt for doors that slide up out of the way for easy access to small appliances behind. Choosing a contrasting finish breaks up large spans of mundane cabinets.

Combine Door Styles

Cabinets feature doors of varying panel styles for a gathered look in this welcoming kitchen. Raised panels blend with beaded-board inserts for traditional style with a hint of casual country and glass doors provide an opportunity for personal display.

Add Wood for Warmth

A pretty and prominent wood graining in these walnut cabinets give contemporary slab-door styles a warmer look. Mixing traditional-style doors with modern New Home finishes, and vice-versa, lends unexpected interest.

Repeat Patterns

When selecting design finishes at your new home builders’ designer showroom, like CornerStone’s Interior Design Solutions, choose decorative muttins to glass-front cabinets to pick up architectural features of the house, such as in windows. Openings in just the upper portion of these cabinets add interesting display opportunities without requiring the entire cabinets to be neat and orderly.

Soften The Look

Upper cabinets fitted with frosted-glass doors offer a filtered view of their contents. For muted ‘pops’ of color, put your favorite fiesta wear beyond the frosted glass.  For a more monochromatic scheme, group monotoned sets behind the frosted glass.  Only the muted tone of your favorite dishware will show through. For a seaside style, select blue glassware.  For an earthy feel, use a green or tan color scheme.

Add Age with Distressing

Hand-distressed finished cabinets, such as an antiqued glaze, give a distinct weathered appearance that lends an instant sense of history and depth. Distressing can soften the sleek and shiny finishes of modern appliances in your new home by blending in old-world or farmhouse style.  Many new home options, such as an antique finish or cocoa glaze, can offer affordable ways to add distressed style to your new home decor, without drastic measures like taking a sander to your new home cabinets!

Award-winning quality Jacksonville new home builders, CornerStone Homes blogs about designing stylish new homes. The builder offers affordable new homes with outstanding craftsmanship and is among the highest in customer satisfaction ratings. A leading home builder in Jacksonville, Florida, CornerStone Homes received the Golden Service Award for its excellence in home building in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Proudly building, designing and decorating beautiful new homes in the finest Northeast Florida communities, CornerStone Homes also builds new homes on your lot, for the ultimate home building experience in custom homes.

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