Cabinets can be designed to fit any project's needs

Apr. 27—JAMESTOWN — Cabinets can be designed to meet any project's needs, said Ty Spitzer, designer, S and S Cabinets.

"We do everything from kitchens to mudrooms to closets to custom wood tops to laundry rooms, entertainment centers, hutches, offices, desks, bookcases, libraries," he said. "We can do gun cabinets. We can do tables ... we also do, like walk-through hidden cabinet doors ... Everything that we do is all custom."

Kitchens, vanities, laundry rooms and closets are popular projects, he noted.

Birch, hickory, walnut and cherry are popular woods for cabinets. Stained cabinets have become more popular in the last two years, Spitzer said.

"It seems like people are more choosing to do stained cabinets nowadays but there's still a lot of our customer base that love the crisp clean look of solid color as well," he said.

When it comes to color, people prefer bold neutral colors along with green and blue, he said.

"A lot of people don't understand that solid color will cost more than stained because of the fact that there is more steps in between to get it to solid," Spitzer said. "There's a lot more labor in solid colors than in staining and that's one thing a lot of people don't understand."

Spitzer said people wanting to do a project should note these types of considerations:

1. Have a budget in mind for the project. Spitzer said they will work with people's budgets to help them create the project.

2. Functionality — "How do you want to use your space and get as much out of it as you can? We can do a whole different new design or we can keep the design if you're OK with how your kitchen is set up," he said.

3. The style of cabinets you want: modern farmhouse, craftsman, framed or frameless, for example.

4. Features: rollouts, shelving, utensil pullouts, spice rollouts, rollout garbages.

Spitzer said clients have been requesting larger kitchen islands with cabinets built into them and fewer upper cabinets.

"We're seeing more people wanting more space and more places to put their things in their island rather than around their kitchen because their functionality is coming to them," he said. "The functionality is right there. So we tend to do a little bit wider islands if the space can withstand it."

Trends this year include floating shelves, beverage stations, rollout spice cabinets, rollout utensil cabinets and rollout garbages.

"Those all are becoming huge," he said.

More people are also tending to go with quartz for countertops, Spitzer said.

"They're virtually maintenance free, add value to your home, and will last many years," he said.

Spitzer said when they work with a client, they want to know how a certain space will be used, whatever the room, and what the client wants in that area, such as upper cabinets, fewer drawers, doors or rollouts.

"We can make anything work," he said. "If they have ideas we can come out, we measure, we can redesign their whole kitchen ... or just remake what they have there if they want to, if they don't have the space for it."

S & S Cabinets is there from start to finish, Spitzer said.

"This could be a very stressful or overwhelming process so ... we try to make it as least overwhelming as possible," he said.

S & S Cabinets has a design studio that helps make it easier for people with visualizing a project.

"We do all of our own measurements," Spitzer said. "We come on-site, we take pictures, we measure, we double measure and then we invite our clients or customers up here to sit with us and we can draw up a design here on the computer because we're not limited to just certain size cabinets. We do custom measurements. Anything really that the client wants is not out of our reach. We design everything, we build everything here on-site in our shop."

Providing custom work gives clients many possibilities.

"If you dream it, we could do it," he said. "... We design our cabinets to their specific area, whether that may be a kitchen, vanity, pantries, lockers, hoods, anything in between. We build everything on a solid half-inch plywood (for boxes) so we have ... durability. Our cabinets are meant to last for many years."

They can also help clients with picking out countertops, hardware, sink and faucets, he said.

"We're pretty much there every step of the way to help ease this process because it can become sometimes ... overwhelming to some people," he said.

For more information, visit

https://www.sandscabinetsnd.com

or call (701) 251-2140.