If you are making a new home, you need to check all the aspects. One of the most common thought that comes to people’s mind while they choose to design the kitchen is whether to choose Modular Kitchen or Carpenter made kitchen. The price difference would be huge in factory made kitchen and the carpenter made kitchen but the main question that arises is, whether the modular kitchen made by the local carpenter would have a good finish or not? Let’s check out the advantages of Modular Kitchen and disadvantages as well:
Pros of Factory Made Modular Kitchen
Here we have listed some of the benefits of modular kitchen in your home.
1. It is Easier to Install: Since they are made in factory, they are ready-to-install. All that one needs to do is, fit the boxes in the kitchen.
2. Easily Customizable: Whether your kitchen is small or big, the experts will suggest the best design so that you get the maximum desired space in your cabinets.
3. Special Modular Kitchen Cabinets : The built it cabinets like baskets for storing vegetables, plate holders, spoon holders, bottle rack, etc, are special features of modular kitchen.
4. Reusable: Even if you are shifting to a new place, the cabinets can be removed and fixed at a new place as well.
5. Elegant Design: Factory made modular kitchen have sleek and stylish designs with great finishing catering to the needs of Indian home habits. An open sleek cabinet with light is mostly added where commonly used products like tea, sugar, are kept.
6. Variety of Colours and Shades: The colour, shades, textures, etc, comes in so much variety that something can be easily matched with the existing interior of your home, thus reducing the cost of interiors.
7. Hassle Free Making: Since the cabinets are designed in factory, you place will not be messy.
Pros of Carpenter Kitchen
Having gone through the benefits of modular kitchen, now let’s have a look at the advantages of Carpenter kitchen in detail:
1. Traditional Method: Finding a local carpenter and asking them to create kitchen cabinets is a thing that sounds like a very familiar thing as this is the traditional ages old method of building a kitchen.
2. Budget Friendly: Carpenters are pretty flexible in their charges, hence carpenter made kitchen is quite economical.
3. On Spot Customization: They work infront of you, hence if any instant ideas pop into your mind regarding the spacing of kitchen that can be implemented on spot.
Cons of Modular Kitchen
If you talk about the cons of a modular kitchen then actually there are not many, however a few are there which we have listed down below:
1. Modular kitchen is known for its fine finish and premium quality but that comes along with a huge price tag. Hence its way costlier that carpenter made kitchen.
2. The installation process as well as in case of any repairing of cabinets further requires technical assistance.
3. If done by unprofessional then it might happen that you don’t get what they would have shown in the initial pictures.
Cons of Carpenter Kitchen
1. All the cabinets are handmade; hence, you might get compromised on the quality and finish.
2. In such type of kitchen, the cabinets are fixed permanently, hence can be dismantled and used further in case of shifting to a new place.
3. The price is not fixed as different carpenter quote different price, hence you might end up paying more as there is nothing as standard price in carpenter kitchen.
4. It lacks the edge bending technique that is the main point in modular kitchen as it avoids any sharp edges giving a sleek and fine look.
5. If the carpenter is not well versed with the latest patterns and designs, then you might end up getting an out dated look kitchen.
There are multiple advantages of modular kitchen as compared to the carpenter made kitchen. The modular one might be a little costly but it’s worth spending as you get a guaranteed well finished and spacious kitchen.
