Harnessing the Power of Function & Form

Custom cabinets are a critical aspect of the kitchen that influences the overall energy, style and even the eventual layout of the room. When it comes to critically investigating how to upgrade and change your kitchen space, finding a way to integrate function, form, and value is the bottom line.

Form is the style of your space, and the visual aesthetic that you simply can’t live without. It’s the eye-widening ohhhh or ahhhh moment that you’re aiming to have every morning when you come down for coffee. It’s the response you’re looking for from guests when they enter the space. It’s the feeling of happiness and peace that you feel when a renovation is done and you’ve managed to build a space that speaks to your lifestyle and your personal vibe.

Harnessing the Power of Function & Form

The other side of that coin is function. Function is an absolutely unavoidable aspect of a dream kitchen that allows you to use the space as you need to use it. It’s the innovative and progressive solutions that effortlessly blend together with the style of your space to create a zone that’s user-friendly, intuitive, and accommodating. Integrating these two key pillars of interior kitchen design translates into the realization you’ve made a series of great choices that all fit together perfectly.

Kitchen Remodelling Boosts Resale Value

In a 2018 cross-Canada study published by Realtor.ca surveying 750 Royal LePage real

estate agents and brokers, a kitchen renovation was found to be the most

profitable upgrade to a home to boost property value, amassing an increase of 12.5%. To put that into perspective, let’s

imagine your home is valued at a cool $450,000 - a kitchen renovation could

elevate the value of your home to a value of $506,250 - that’s an increase of $56,250.

Not too shabby.

The good news for contractors is realizing that the incoming flood of millennial homeowners are over 2X more likely to tackle a kitchen renovation project, according to HomeAdvisor chief economist, Brad Hunter. Forbes notes the majority of people perceive kitchen upgrades as the most impactful on home resale value, because they’re high-use, high-traffic spaces that translate into a high level of interest.

Kitchen cabinets are the major visual component of a dream kitchen; they encompass the most space within a culinary space, and they help to curate the overall energy of the kitchen - everything else plays to the tune of the cabinetry. To make the most impact, integrating the form and style of a new set of custom cabinetry helps create visual splendor, while the newfound function of your new cabinets add storage, a user-friendly cooking experience, and effortless entertaining opportunities.

Tapping into these value boosters means beginning the redesign process by the homeowner and their kitchen designer collaborating to plan an ideal layout that incorporates both open sight lines and stylish appeal with maximized function. This almost always begins with the choice of cabinetry, islands, layouts, and storage solutions. This depends on balancing square footage, how to best accommodate the lifestyle of the homeowner, and budget.

Curb appeal may be important to buyers, but it’s the interior of a home that really captures the essence of falling in love with the fit and finish of the space - and according to the same study, it’s critical to renovate your spaces with modern materials and design trends that are popular and trending, not too personal.

Popular Cabinetry Trends

Trends come and go, but there are a few ways of looking at the revolving door of

popular ideas with consistent, eye-catching, and desirable features that

stand the test of time.

Custom cabinets are a critical aspect of the kitchen that influences the overall energy, style and even the eventual layout of the room. When it comes to critically investigating how to upgrade and change your kitchen space, finding a way to integrate function, form, and value is the bottom line.

Form is the style of your space, and the visual aesthetic that you simply can’t live without. It’s the eye-widening ohhhh or ahhhh moment that you’re aiming to have every morning when you come down for coffee. It’s the response you’re looking for from guests when they enter the space. It’s the feeling of happiness and peace that you feel when a renovation is done and you’ve managed to build a space that speaks to your lifestyle and your personal vibe.

Custom Wood

Their kitchen designs always exceed expectations

Basic shelves have been replaced by complex and accommodating functional storage areas with swing-out trays, innovative door hinge mechanisms, appliance garage solutions, and adjustable dividers. Integrating classic kitchen must-haves like recycling and garbage bins is a fantastic way to add value to a kitchen remodel project, as are pantries.

Specialty Storage Solutions

Our cabinets are the perfect design for our space and lifestyle

Long gone are the days of cluttered spaces filled with appliances strewn about the countertops and claustrophobic spaces with too many overhead cabinetry options that cloud headspace and sock in the room. These days, open and airy kitchens take the #1 spot on the majority of homeowner wish lists, opting for reduced clutter, long, clean lines, and sleek minimalist style.

Open spaces that take care to alleviate the cluttered feel of kitchen of old help us feel reinvigorated with possibility — and they look chic and fantastic. When the clutter is gone, the benefit of function is your necessary appliances and equipment required for a functional, useable kitchen are stored out-of-sight in their easily-accessible homes.

Streamline Style

When we have gatherings and people sit at our kitchen bar, they never leave!!

We are delighted with the work and design of Citation Kitchens, we still get compliments on our kitchen even after a number of years.

Cooking In Your Space

Your kitchen is for entertaining, sure - but don’t forget you have to feed yourself in this space as well. Building a showroom kitchen is great for the eyes, but not so much for your stomach - investing in a

kitchen that prioritizes cooking is key to maximizing functionality.

The key to maximizing function in a kitchen triangle is to keep these spaces within a small footprint of about 2-3 feet of each other.

This helps the at-home chef get to and from each station in a step or two, eliminating wasted time and misuse of valuable space. As a general rule of thumb, a kitchen triangle should total no more than 26 feet.

The classic kitchen triangle is an old school design principle that still applies to most functional kitchen spaces.

It succeeds by regulating and streamlining kitchen workflow between three standard stations:

● Sink for washing● Stove / Oven for cooking● Fridge / Pantry for access to food.

Kitchen Triangle

Maximizing the amount of countertop food prep and entertaining space in your kitchen is an excellent way to elevate both form and function. Space to cook is paramount to the success of any kitchen space, but having more counter space available is also one of the better ways to maximize entertaining space as well.

A larger kitchen island is a great gathering place for morning breakfast with the family, an excellent spot to catch up with friends over wine and hors d'oeuvres, and a great way to integrate more custom base cabinets to add much-needed storage space to your dream kitchen.

Maximize Prep Space

Took our design input, fixed our mistakes and gave us the exact kitchen we wanted.

Kitchens are extreme environments. They’re fraught with heat, moisture, steam. Stains, sharp knives, etc - they take a lot of abuse, and need to be able to roll with the punches so they can keep up with the demands of the highest foot traffic in the house. Investing in high quality cabinetry ensures your kitchen is prepared and capable of dealing with the drastic changes in temperature and everyday uses.

Investing in discount counters and cabinets can contribute to warping, steam damage, rot, and other environmental factors that could see you spend more money and time upgrading those same cabinets down the line. High quality cabinets from Citation are manufactured with durability and reliability in mind.

Invest In Durability

Citation Kitchens installed my cabinets 14 years ago. To this day people still think they’re new!

The Custom Advantage

Tailored ApproachA standardized kitchen that could appear

in the house down the street is no one’s idea of their dream kitchen. A proper

kitchen renovation or remodel project is unique, strategized, and intentional -

representing the distinct wishes and needs of the homeowner. A custom, tailored

approach to investing in, custom cabinetry is the epitome of harnessing the power of

form and function.

A custom kitchen allows you to entirely customize and personalize your space to

fit your lifestyle. If a corner lazy Susan base cabinet is a must-have of yours - it’s within

reach. Should an oversized island with a sink and wine fridge integrated into it be

your idea of the perfect kitchen entertaining space - it’s only achievable

through a custom approach.

Disguise Your EffortsFlashy kitchens are a product of the past.

The over-the-top sense of drama associated with the heat of the home was

all about drawing the eye all over the place, overloading the sense with colour,

textures, patterns, and different spaces crammed into one space. The modern

custom kitchen is more about opening up a space to allow more air, more breath, and

more space to flow through your home. The heart of the home isn’t just the kitchen anymore - it’s the proverbial hearth, where

people gather to warm their souls.

The modern kitchen is best disguised and accentuated in subtle touches that allow it

to be more than just a kitchen. These spaces not only blur the lines between

eating and living spaces, but also integrate form and function to the point where their

purpose is ambiguous, accommodating, and transformable.

The cultural significance of the kitchen is vast. It’s where the cradle of civilization was nurtured and where we came together as a species ; but culture evolves and the modern kitchen experience is able adaptability, entertaining, investment, user-friendly amenities, and satisfying the inner-designer in all of us.

The most successful kitchen upgrades begin with custom cabinetry as a foundation of strength and confidence.

Cabinetry is the crux that supports the innovative storage solutions, inspiring style and design additions, and functional elements that combine to create a custom space that caters specifically our individualistic lifestyles; an investment into the kitchen is an investment in happiness, and investment in style, and an investment in making our lives easier.

Get More Out Of Your Kitchen With Custom Built

Cabinetry.

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