Lewisville Kitchen Cabinets

Lewisville kitchen cabinets are made with style and function in mind. Lewisville, TX itself embraces its rich rural past and its modern, cultural present. Each summer there is a regular Farmer's Market on dates in May through September, and there are local gallery exhibits, shows at the Greater Lewisville Community Theater and a Reading Club at the Lewisville Public Library.

If you have been a part of that library club, you may have read one of Jane Austen's great classics and appreciated the description of life in an English farmhouse. In Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, you get an idea of the simple yet elegant style of rural England in centuries past. If you are remodeling, you can renew your kitchen in the English farmhouse style, while including modern amenities.

The Austen Look

Open cabinets have long been featured in both English farmhouse and American country kitchen decors. Often, these can be just a portion of the cabinets in the room, along with a pantry and closed Texas cupboards. Open Lewisville kitchen cabinets can be featured in hardwood or painted in the traditional white or cream colors.

Unlike other Lewisville kitchen cabinets, the English farmhouse style cabinetry emphasizes the pantry. It can be another open cabinet to feature beautiful dish collections, or to provide easy access food. If you have an open pantry in your kitchen, use fabrics and baskets to artfully keep your food nearby, without the clutter.

Your food can also be cleverly stashed away and your serving platters, pitchers and more can be on display. Create ventilated Lewisville kitchen cabinets for dry goods, bread and produce. Place glass in the front of the drawers so you always know which drawer to reach for at mealtime.

Display antique ceramics or china on your cabinets and drape pretty patterned fabric over baskets and more. The traditional country house would have featured toile and other pastoral patterns, but you can make the design truly yours by picking a fabric that accents your kitchen colors. The room should have English countryside and Lewisville, TX charm.

Shaker Sensibility

The Austen character kitchens were often large, illuminating a rich family in decline. They were made for large families with servants. Even if your kitchen is small, the English farmhouse style favors open spaces for pots, pans, dishes and silverware within easy reach.

The favored type of manufactured cabinetry in 18th and 19th century rural England was the Shaker style. The Shakers were a religious group in 18th century England, just before and during the time that Austen's books were published. They were known for their woodworking, and especially their cabinetry.

Traditionally, Shaker cabinets were made without any glue or nails so that they could expand or contract with the atmosphere. They are created with dovetail joints and usually with matching wooden knobs. Lewisville kitchen cabinets built in the Shaker style are made with clean lines and small amount of frame around the sides.

Shakers traditionally used cherry wood, but you can also choose mahogany, oak, pine and more. Perhaps the most valuable feature of Shaker Lewisville kitchen cabinets is that they are made to create orderliness in the home.

The Shakers designed efficient cabinetry and made creative, functional compartments, double drawers and pull out features to maximize the usage of space. If you are hurting for counter space, a butcher block island filled with shelves for wine, pans, trays, platters and more will help you to use your space in a traditional and useful manner.

Modern Texas Essentials

As well as a well-planned design scheme, your Lewisville kitchen should be filled with all the essentials for a modern Texas home. The first step is installing pull out runners in your Lewisville kitchen cabinets. You can opt to have the contractor or woodworker do this upon installation or you can buy a kit and do it yourself. Install Lazy Susans in your upper cabinets for easy access to the backside, as well as the front.

Luckily, you don't have to return to the pre-refrigerator days of Austen's era. In fact, you can update your refrigerator in one of the new styles. If you get modern appliances, but want to retain the antique look of the farmhouse, then choose semi-custom Lewisville kitchen cabinets that build in your appliances. They are recessed and then covered with panel to match the other cabinets. You can do the same thing with a grill, warming drawer or dishwasher.

The bird is the Lewisville, TX symbol, supporting the motto, "Deep Roots. Broad Wings. Bright Future." Kitchens are the basis for our lives, feeding the mouths that plant the roots. With literature-inspired Lewisville kitchen cabinets, you can nourish your family's minds as well as their bodies, while putting a different kind of Austin on the Texas map.