How can we define when kitchen furniture is cheap or durable? Today we will give you a few tips so that you can recognize certain details that will give you a guideline.
On average, a kitchen should last between 10 to 20 years from its installation, since this is the estimated time in which the house must undergo a total remodeling.
How old are your kitchen furniture? What problems have you experienced?
This is exactly where we should start, with the inconveniences that kitchen furniture without a warranty begins to generate from the first day it is in our home.
Low resistance hardware systems
It is very normal to meet clients who have a very negative view of metal accessories or hardware, as they consider that after a few months they will no longer work or that they do not fulfill their function because they do not allow heavy weights on each level.
This happens mainly because they are from a very economical range or replicas of the originals, which stop being functional, become decorative and then become a headache.
How to avoid it?
The only advice that exists is to use certified hardware, whose value will be very different from the vast majority that we find on the market but its guarantee will allow it to be useful from start to finish.
At Milani Cocinas we exclusively use hardware blum, Austrian brand, where each element has 100 thousand opening cycles guaranteed, or 20 years.
Kitchen furniture created as blocks
Let's say you are installing the floor units (or base cabinets) in your kitchen with 8 doors. If the cabinets in this kitchen are made modular, there will be a separate cabinet behind each door for a total of 8 cabinets. When the kitchen is installed, it looks like a single piece of furniture, but in reality, there are 8 adjacent modules. Hence its name.
In contrast, block cabinets are manufactured to contain two or more doors in a single structure. This substantially reduces the number of modules to be manufactured and increases the size and weight of each module.
Generally, block furniture does not have dividers, which means you can load and unload items from the adjacent door. This type of configuration is very common in kitchen gabinets economical because, certainly, it is a little cheaper than the modular system.
There is a very big difference between cheap furniture and price optimization in the kitchen design, Here we leave you 3 examples:
- Use fewer drawers and take advantage of shelves
- Make the internal part of the furniture in white board, since this will reduce the price compared to using textured or colored boards.
- Opening systems with embedded handle, gola system, is a smart decision to save.
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