When do I prefer floating shelves over upper cabinets

Choosing kitchen cabinets that works for your kitchen is challenging...

Simple steps to narrow down the look of your kitchen cabinets and to design the dream kitchen you always wanted. Answering the questions below will give you some clarity for your next step.

• How tall are your ceiling?

If you have a ceiling height of lower than 9 feet, we highly recommend to reduce upper cabinets to bring the openness and brightness. Instead, go with floating or open shelves. If you are not a big fan of open or floating shelves, then limit the upper cabinets to one big wall in the kitchen. You can also do ceiling to floor cabinets to that one wall or on the counter cabinets.

• What color cabinets?

The amount of light in the kitchen and the ceiling height again is very important for the color selection. Low ceiling height and less natural light, we recommend natural wood, white or lighter color cabinets.

If you are a fan of deep or dark colors but your ceiling height is low and not much light in the kitchen, don't worry about it, select lighter tile color and countertops and go with the darker cabinets.

• What style cabinets?

It depends on the look of the house. If your rest of the house is more modern or contemporary, we recommend shaker style or flat panel. For more farm house or traditional style go with raised panel or mitered look.