Cabinets

Well-planned storage is an essential consideration for a kitchen that’s both efficient and beautiful. Learn how to shop for cabinets that fit your budget and your needs, without sacrificing quality or style.

CABINETS CAN BE your biggest expense when remodeling, accounting for up to 40_percent of your budget. Not only that, they set the tone for your kitchen, and you’ll have them for years. That’s why choosing cabinets is so daunting. White cabinets are popular again, and so are cabinet styles that are less fussy and more streamlined, such as the clean lines and square corners of the Shaker style. Use this buying guide to help you choose. (Note that Consumer Reports doesn’t test cabinets at this time.) It used to be that dovetail joints were practically all you needed to distinguish high-end cabinets. That has blurred as more manufacturers o.er premium features even on low-end lines. Indeed, our past tests found that you can have onceexclusive features and still wind up with…

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Consumer Reports Kitchen Planning and Buying Guide (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2018

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