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European Kitchen Cabinet Showroom Tour

Bob visits the Boston design center where he is schooled in the art of the European Kitchen. It is explained how Europeans view kitchen cabinets as a piece of furniture. The salesperson removes the toe kick to show how the legs are adjustable and not permanently affixed to the floor like most U.S. cabinets. The upper cabinets are hung like pictures. She points out many of the modern feature of European cabinet design.
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European Kitchen Cabinet Showroom Tour

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" Wonder what it is about European kitchen design that it's really become the hot thing in the last few years European. Appliances. In cabinet hinges."

" I think it's more the European concept that we have landing you know. We European kitchen -- more of a picture then. Boxes oak cabinets they look at it -- springer. Exactly yet and when we look at it and we speed that he's buying that we've -- here we are impressed with the look of the cabinet. But -- store but head -- and gave a -- towards space. They -- all the -- is about the life but both the -- in the talking with other meetings repeating horizontal yes. Without the so. Speaking to find here legs that are adjustable. That makes the cabinets he's he moved one place to another one in the adjusts to the next well the next. They're free standing. How do you attach the upper cabinets for the -- upper cabinets are coming with these piece of wood at the -- And we put the based on the wall and the cabinets are hanged on me they hang like a picture. They hang like a picture right now you also said that there's no face frame on these boxes in the cabinet Friday at their strength. If we look at the box on that -- we going to see that the corners here are mitered in that area in the usual way. And these makes -- very strong box in the melt it and manufacture I don't know. Try -- these corners by throwing the cabinets from a building that is fourteen -- high. What happened is that while -- box. Woke to a piece of but the corners stayed up and they are it's ninety degree angle a lot to be said for the adhesive there for the blues. That box is made very well. And then and the and it -- you can see -- Medium density spiral or. And then it is all lacquered it's not laminated. True it's painted -- in both sides in this very complicated procedure. This is laminate and interior here is a pocket on board so what are some of the features of idea."

" Of the kitchen cabinets that we got here we spoke."

" Forward about the substance since the war and would look you always see that they still -- In this case is being -- it fall. Expect that the great -- get up there you go into the it the high cabinets yeah. One thing that I would like to show you news. The attention of design that is being done by appliance manufacturers. Kitchen design companies. Kitchen cabinet designers and appliance that are manufactured getting together days -- all right and we can see the continuation of the line. This same line up -- out of the things on an out of the cabinets and the panel of the door the dishwasher. It's not a coincidence but it matching the rest of the with the door. We talked about fading. Space we can look here at the corner and -- on the -- but it -- you -- maximum all right Lou didn't need. It's being used -- to dig there in the corner and tried to find what you put there by not -- basement you can do capture. -- Cabinet with deep forest under the cook so. In the fun -- it it has the bar that acknowledged the bulbs to leave the unit out and it's gonna cost to open as he says we want -- support -- But the bottom we have a lot of which we've -- Often tends to become one with another. I'm -- here. This cabinet here is what rights and sometimes my hands of Puerto -- I'll clean perfect that happened. So we my leg that I can open the cabinet for affection -- your coat yes and it accidentally."

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