2024 Wood Diamond Award Kitchen: Frameless $25 - $50K Colorado Cabinet Makers Second Place
Colorado Cabinet Makers is a small custom cabinet shop located in Loveland, Colorado. James & Tracey, the owners, handle the business and design while 10 talented and dedicated woodworkers make sawdust in the shop. They do most of our own installations to keep quality control of the projects. Very little is outsourced while creating a wide variety of quality residential cabinetry and millwork. James has been a member of the Cabinet Makers Association for many years.
Describe your project, what makes it unusual, and/or any outstanding characteristics.
This kitchen project was built for our clients in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were doing a near scrape remodel/rebuild of an older home on a lake lot they loved. It is a two tone, two species European kitchen built from clear calico hickory and painted rustic knotty alder. The natural finished hickory matched the flooring they selected as well as other hickory accents around their home. The rustic knotty alder was painted with a color called Porpoise and then a light sand thru was done that exposed the natural color of the alder which came close to matching the natural hickory. Together the colors created the “country farmhouse with a modern twist” look. One of the challenges in designing this kitchen was an angled ceiling from an above stairway that protruded into the ceiling space in the only good location for the large double paneled refrigerator. In order to make the refrigerator wall work, the cabinets above had to be built with sloped backs and fit on site. The finished product conceals the stairwell issue quite well. A 8’ x 5’ matching hickory and alder banquette extends off the kitchen space to create a dining nook. A custom matching hickory table is in the works next.
The functional hardware was all Blum tandems, clip-top soft-close hinges and aventos door lifts. Hafele LOOX low voltage LED lighting was incorporated into the corner floating shelves, the recessed under cabinet lighting and toe-kick lighting. All three of these were independently switched and dimmable with the house system. Another appliance integration was a automatic Elkay water bottle filler. This is a residential unit like the ones found in airports. It required a 4” wide thickened refrigerator side panel with chases for plumbing to a remote cooler located in a “under the stair” niche which was also covered by cabinetry doors. Decorative hardware is Jeffrey Alexander. Ultra flat precat lacquers and paints were provided by ML Campbell. Paxton Hardwoods created custom 4” shaker crown moulding to top off the upper cabinets. Our clients and their black lab Fluss are happy with their new kitchen!
List any items that were outsourced.
None
Project Type: Residential
Project Category: Kitchen - Frameless - $25,000-$50,000
