Best Cabinets has been designing building, and installing custom kitchens since 1979. This year there has been some noticable trends in the Chicago Market. I would believe similar trends have taken place thoughout the US.
1. I have seen a increase in the number of customers intereted in High Gloss Cabinets. Some are looking for high quality lacquer kitchen cabinets and some are fine with a more affordable high gloss thermofoil cabinet front.
(See above a high gloss kitchen)
2. There has also been an increase in the number of customers looking for "Eco-Friendly" or "Green Friendly" Products and Services. Some customers are drawn to our Custom Bamboo Kitchen Cabinets and other customers are interested in Cabinets made from reclaimed Lumber.
(See above a picture of a Bamboo Kitchen which is scheduled to be featured in a national magazine, "Signature Kitchens & Baths".)
3. We have seen a surge in customer requests for Custom Furniture. The most popular items customers have inquired about is Live Edge Dining Tables. These tables are made from solid wood slabs typically 2"to 4" thich whick we cut on our own company owned sawmill. We then try the Slabs professional in our own dehumidifier run dry kiln. Customers have also been drawn to our custom bamboo table, custom chairs and our custom wood benches made of Walnut Maple Bamboo. Our new Exotic Veneer Round Tbale has also drawn much attention. It is made of Birdseye maple, ebony, crotch walnut, quilted maple, burled walnut teak and tulipwood.
(See above for our Solid Bamboo Dining Table and our Exotic Veneer Round Table)4. Glass tile and Led Backlit Backsplashes have both been very popular this year and the glass tile has seemed to almost become the standard for kitchen countertop backslash.
(See above the picture of a ewly refaced kitchen in Maple Stained Wenge with a beautiful Glass Tile)
5. The most common request we have had all year is of course the obvious: "How to save money". Many customers have opted to reface or refinish their existing kitchen cabinets in an effort to save time and money, rather then a complete renovation on their kitchen cabinets. Recently, Best Cabinets has performed many projects in either repainting, refinishing refacing, or redooring(replacing just the cabinet doors in the kitchen rather than replacing the entire cabinet.)
For more information please contact Dan Diewald at 773-416-0300 or email him at danncd@yahoo.com. Also feel free to contact Best Cabinets at 773-235-3719 our showroom is open from 11am until 5 pm Monday through Saturday. Also, feel free to Visit one of our World Famous websites:
