These Stunning Interior Design Ideas Show How Cabinetry Can Transform Your Home

Nothing can transform a home like your choice of cabinets. They’re a piece of craftsmanship that you’ll see and interact with everyday, always front and center in the rooms you use the most, while also providing structure and flow to your daily routine.

But it can take a little bit of know-how to make the right choice: It’s a bigger and more permanent decision than just selecting a shade of Robin’s Egg blue for the walls. If you’re going to define the feel of your home with your pick, then it’s important to make sure that pick fits your style while also incorporating the functionality and quality that your lifestyle demands.

To find out how to determine what cabinet styles will bring out the best in your home, we took a look at what style options people are choosing from New England’s own Crown Point Cabinetry. Crown Point Cabinetry is the only custom cabinetmaker that sells directly nationally and internationally, and as the top choice in New England and beyond for cabinets, they’re the go-to source for anyone looking to get exactly what they need for their home–whether they’re designing around a Victorian, or looking to support two chefs who like to cook in tandem.

Here’s what’s popular in the kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms and more of New Englanders right now–and the style tips that readers should consider when trying to find cabinets that can take their home to the next level.

Crown Select offers a wide variety of looks for every home type.

Your Personal Style

Whatever look you choose, it’s helpful to coordinate your cabinets throughout your home to create a unified sense of style. That means your kitchen, bathroom, and laundry offer design opportunities to make an impression on visitors and future home buyers–and even yourself (it’s always nice when a well-made furnishing can provide you with a little mood boost just by being there). But if you’re pursuing a comprehensive style statement, it’s even more important that your selections fit well within your home.

For your first step, knowing how unique your home’s needs are will guide your decision as to whether you need full custom or limited custom cabinets. In the case of Crown Point Cabinetry, they’ve created two lines of cabinets for any room in your home. They offer their full custom line, known as Crown Point, for those customers who need the full range of options, sizes, and configurations to fit their home. And they offer their limited custom line, known as Crown Select, which is handcrafted by the same cabinetmakers that build cabinetry in the Crown Point Line, and is a popular option for customers with less-demanding home layouts.

Crown Point works well if you’re, say, a little taller or a little shorter than the average person, and you need cabinets of an unusual height, or if you have a unique kitchen, such as architectural angles and intersections that you need to work around. But for both full custom and limited custom cabinets, you can get artisan quality, made to the same fit and finish, that will fit your home.

For a fully custom look that matches your home type, consider Crown Point. But Crown Select does offer options that can fit older home types, such as the above.

Finely Aged

Knowing your home type and age is a good starting point in that process. Certain older home styles, such as Victorians, Queen Annes, and Early American homes, may benefit from carefully matching the design of your cabinets to their period-specific style. Crown Point Cabinetry creates cabinets in the style of each of these homes, to make coordination easy.

And for even more fine-grained matching, their full custom Crown Point line allows customers to choose specific glazing and burnishing options to more specifically mirror the aged appearance of their home. Burnishing removes some of the top coat after it’s been applied, to give the cabinets a look as if they’ve been gently worn by years of use. Glazing creates a subtle, varied patina that gives the cabinets a distressed appearance. Overall, people will look at the cabinets and think “This has been here for years”–when Crown Point completed their cabinetry project the week before.

These fully custom Crown Point cabinets create a unique kitchen environment.

Full of Character

While glazing and burnishing can help your cabinets match the character of your home, if you want to give them some particularly unique personality, you may want to consider the use of reclaimed lumber as a material. It’s an environmentally friendly choice, as it’s wood gathered and recycled from older homes, barns, factories and other structures, then refined before use in your cabinets.

In that process, many of the original features of the wood are kept, such as their unique color, stains, texture and knotting, giving you a one-of-a-kind piece that’ll make for a mainstay of dinner-party conversation. Homeowners can either have a few select pieces made from reclaimed lumber, or they can have it throughout their kitchen–Crown Point customers come up with creative uses for it in different home styles.

If you’re looking for something a little more low-key, but still love the natural look of wood, consider the tried-and-true process of staining. While white painted cabinets have continued to be popular thanks to their neutral vibe, staining allows for the character of the wood to show through, while also proving stain-resistant and forgiving for bangs and bumps in the kitchen.

Fully custom Crown Point cabinets can fit into unique layouts, while still adding a clean, contemporary look when desired.

Clean and Contemporary

If your home is a little more modern, whether a true contemporary masterpiece or simply following the latest in Scandinavian home trends, then a more minimal aesthetic is often appropriate. Crown Point Cabinetry offers ways to create a sense of big personality, even in the small details.

Slab doors are celebrated for their flat, minimalistic look, but if you want to add a refined flair, go for their Fineline door style, in which a thin trim surrounds the perimeter to create a subtle sense of depth and shadow.

And if you love clean lines, you can integrate them throughout your home–by selecting rift cut oak as a material. While cutting into oak typically results in natural, varied patterns in the grain, rift cut oak has been carefully cut to create clean lines throughout the oak’s surface. It’s a perfect way to create a sense of unity throughout your home, while still keeping things elegantly subtle.

In any case, it’s that sense of style, no matter how apparent or low-key, that’s going to make you happy with your home for the long haul. As long as you choose a cabinetmaker that offers a wide range of styles that can fit your home’s personality–and who has the craftsmanship to pull them off. At Crown Point Cabinetry, it’s all about meeting your needs–whether your needs are full custom and you choose Crown Point, or you need limited custom and choose Crown Select. A great cabinetmaker can find a way to achieve your goals.