New Spaces to Use Cabinetry

New ( or slightly used.. ) ideas for custom cabinetry in the 2007 -2008 Season.

Some of the fun ideas that expanding in every market from the luxury end to the practical include using cabinetry and custom furniture in traditionally utlilitarian areas including garages, mudrooms, potting areas and closets.

Many cabinet companies are expanding markets by making slight changes to their product offerings and engineering them for other purposes. New companies are also getting involved by creating new products. As our clients lives ( and our own) become more and more complicated, we strive for solutions to organize and simplify. The solutions can be as beautiful as they are functional.

In Garage Storage systems, companies like Rubbermaid have introduced components and cabinetry to organize just about everything you can imagine. From Bicycles to tools to all those containers of oil, antifreeze, windshield washer fluid, care care products, etc. The solutions create a space that is much calmer and visually appealing, not to mention how easy it is to find what you are looking for. In Connecticut a new Company, Garage Cabinets of Connecticut, has started and will provide planning, products and installation of compontents.


As we move from the garage and into the mudroom we find a smooth and functional transition. WHen we arrive home from work and school, our kids will have benches to remove their shoes, or cleats or boots before entering the more formal living spaces. They will have their own storage compartments for storing all the seasons sports equipment as well as their backpacks from school and their currently used jackets or sweaters. Some mudroom systems will even include sinks and showers to clean up in. We wont forget about the family pets. Our new Mudrooms have planned spaces for cleaning and pampering our pets and storing their food and supplies. The new mudrooms become sophisicated entries into the santuaries of our home lives. New Cabinetry offerings from many designers and manufactures complete these spaces but providing beautiful, long lasting quality components that stand up to the rigourous use of everyday life.

Potting areas- Occasionally Potting areas are included in mudroom spaces, but even more often now they are allocated spaces of thier own. The old potting shed has found a place in our hearts and homes. Updated with provisions for storing the tools and materials needed to creating flower arrangemetns for the dinner table, repotting plants and even starting seedlings for the next seasons garden or growing a crop of our favorite herbs.

Closets, especially master closets have grown up and become far more sophisticated. Instead of the typical 60" Closet with bi fold doors or the the upgraded 60" closet with bifold doors and a storage system inside, the new Master closet is a room perhaps with an island and organized storage spaces for Ties, Dress socks, pullouts for shoe storage, build in safes for valuables, sitting areas to put on shoes and even beverage stations including refrigerators, coffee makers and even dishwashers and sinks. The new master closet completes the master bedroom suite and transforms it into a santuary for weiry parents or a retreat for amourous couples to escape to.

Whether the style of these spaces are on the utilitarian side or much more sophisticated, opportunities exist to use cabinetry to make these spaces far more functional and help us create beautiful spaces.