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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

The new kitchen space in the Miami condo has been opened up and brightened. Bob meets with LesCare cabinet representative Brad Brewster, of Princeton Custom Cabinetry, who explains the features of this semi-custom cabinet line. Bob has selected a standard white, contemporary style that features invisible hardware, undermount drawers, and edge-banded finishing that completely encases the fiberboard core. The cabinets look seamless, and almost completely eliminate off-gassing thanks to the edge-banded design. Brewster shows Bob the kitchen layout and the lazy Susan that spins 360 degrees to provide full access to the corner cupboard. Bob prices out the kitchen cabinetry and counters per running foot and finds it to be an affordable, elegant, easy-care solution for the getaway kitchen.
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Installing Kitchen Cabinets

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" This has been transformed since last week -- it's been a lot of work done a lot of changes yet. And I guess I mean we -- lot of clutter in here but I guess the be all white. Openness of the space really really helps because it was just a couple of weeks ago that we had all these cut up walls and partitions. Yeah I. This is brad Brewster from lescare cabinet nice to each retroactive decision that I'm happy to see you this -- really looking terrific great thank you very much we're making a lot of progress yes so these are. Lescare. Custom or. This as an error semi custom semi custom and what we're looking at is kind of your old fashioned standard could contemporary look. That's we -- this is a slab door a white slab door Formica brand's number 949 white color what do most standard it. About laminate colors that you can specify if you dissidents the nice thing about it is that matches up with just about everything in the industry when you get into the white color tones. You see the drawer here Bob this is they would dovetail constructed drawer with faith. Under mount drawer slide so you don't see the hardware at all and it extends out completely out of the inside of the cabinet that's nice. Now the construction of the cabinet itself. They're not plywood boxes are I -- this is a three quarter inch Melamine and it's also edge banded so that you don't have the raw edges of the wood. And that helps out aesthetically. And seals the wood gives you -- nice finished product like that they do it even in areas where you're not going to be seen because -- that's correct Bob that's one of the unique things about lescare is they edge band the majority of the parts. For the very reason also another point would be that you don't ever have to think about out gassing -- you've got everything closed. -- as much as you can be the wood is protected and sealed with that hit him yet now this is its regular Formica laminate is not the color core Formica no it's not what they use is on the edge banding of the door they applied the laminate onto the drawer face first and then they do the edge second therefore you do not see that black line that is inherent in a lot of mica. Cabinetry today. All right this -- to take a little trip around here than this is where a slide in oven and cook top ago. And we -- the kitchen sink and the dishwasher safe and dishwasher in this corner here move this out of work. We have -- lazy Susan that is the wood version and those spin 360 degrees. And that allows your homeowner to gain full access to the entire corner of the cabinet. All right. Very very nice -- I used to price these things in terms of the running foot and nowadays kitchens have gotten so high end sometimes it's granite on top of cherry wood and it can be hundreds even thousand dollars a running foot what what would be the cost of this type every kitchen in this series Bob I would think you'd be about 250 to 300 dollars a running foot that would include via countertop. "

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