Wishing for the sleek-looking modular kitchen cabinet in your home – You must read this post, I am sharing all the secrets that no one wants you to know, expect me!
Modular Kitchen cabinets are a fascinating addition to any home. Style and utility, both, are wonderfully packaged together with a very high price tag. Kudos to the imported modular kitchen, and also the kitchen cabinets in India. You see modular kitchens come with a promise to transform your cooking efforts into a delightful experience. But, let me drop the ball here, and say this – there is a flip side to your beautiful modular kitchen cabinets. And as you and I are here today, I want to reveal it all.
Secret 1 It’s not wood
The typical design sold by most kitchen cabinet manufacturers in India is not made of wood; no, it is not. Difficult to believe, right? The sleek laminate look makes us assume that its wood, but actually its MDF board, or Cement fibre board. You can always request your vendor to customise the kitchen cabinets in plyboard, but it will cost you more. The good thing about these fibre boards is its lower cost rank on the kitchen cabinet price list. The fibre boards start from Rs.1050 per sq.ft; while plyboard cabinets are Rs.1300 per sq ft and above.
Secret 2 It’s not stone either
Your modular kitchen cabinet is not only about the laminated boxes and the pull-out baskets; the counter is a significant part of your new modular kitchen cabinet design. Also, you know the counter table is the most used part of the kitchen. After all, it is here on the kitchen counter where all the magic of your cooking comes together into delicious treats for you and your family. So please excuse me for saying this – the modular kitchen cabinets are giving you’re a fake counter! Yes, it is true. The showrooms of Modular kitchen dealers, where you decide to bring a modular kitchen home, are fitted with human-made or acrylic stone, not the real, natural stone. This difference is the same as the one between packaged food and home cooked fresh food. You take a choice. My tip is to insist on natural granite stone for your kitchen counter.
Secret 3 It has limited life
Now, a kitchen made of fibre boards and artificial stone – how can it have a long, happy life, it can’t. In our family homes, we have kitchens that have tossed meals one generation over the other. Traditional Indian kitchens are cast in stone. I remember my grandmother’s kitchen cabinets were made with white marble and fitted with wooden shutters. The thing is that for Indian households, we expect kitchens to have at least 15 or 20 years of life. However, the best of the modular kitchen cabinets, even with wooden plyboard cabinets and granite stone counters will last for a maximum of 10 years. I feel you should know and plan for it before committing to the high price tag.
Secret 4 It’s not waterproof
Kitchens are the very busy spots in our homes, with water being a necessary ingredient in everything that occurs in and around those modular kitchen cabinets. With steam cookers to washbasins, you just can’t control or contain the use of water, and the moisture that comes along. Sooner or later, the cabinets begin to give up one by one. First one is the cabinet under your washbasin. Also, architecturally, most Indian houses plan their kitchens on the exterior facing walls. Modular kitchen cabinets do not fare well with any sort of seepage or leaks. Simply put, water and modular kitchen cabinets are the best of friends.
Secret 5 It’s stubborn to change
The idea behind modular kitchens is a factory-made and professionally fitted kitchen design that is precise to the last inch. It celebrates symmetry and detail, and that is the reason why it looks so lovely and attractive. But as I promised you the flip side to everything about modular kitchen cabinets, here again, I have one more, last critique. Once you have the perfectly precise and very pleasing kitchen fitted in your home, you can’t change it. I mean, you cannot change unless you refit it completely. You already know how kitchens are made by composing and coordinating many fittings and electronics. Now, modular kitchen cabinets are custom made according to the size of your stove, refrigerator, your microwave oven, the chimney, and so on. You try to change or add a single fitting; you start compromising on the stylish look of your modular kitchen.
Now, my pal, you know the best-guarded secrets about modular kitchen cabinets; and have plenty to ponder your thoughts. Modular kitchen cabinets are not all bad, but you must make sure to order a high-quality product rather than the run of the mill design. So, are you going to take the plunge, will you commit to buying and fitting the modular kitchen cabinets?
Also a good read for you: Checklist for your modular kitchen design vendor