Black cabinets are the highest-contrast choice available and the least forgiving of a badly lit room. Done in the right place they make a kitchen look built rather than bought; done across every wall of a dark room they close it in.
Rest Cabinetry stocks 6 black and charcoal finishes across the nine collections held at 6115 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Suite E, Norcross, GA 30071. Boxes are all-plywood throughout - a strict no-particleboard policy - with full-overlay doors and soft-close hardware on the main collections, and a 12-month limited warranty on cabinets, hinges and drawer glides.
Black is at its best as the anchor: an island, a run of tall cabinets, or the base cabinets under a pale perimeter. That gives the contrast without surrendering the light.
A fully black kitchen needs daylight from more than one direction, or a lot of deliberate artificial light, and it needs a pale counter or backsplash to stop the room reading as a single dark mass.
Charcoal is the safer version of the same idea. It carries almost the same weight as black while keeping a little grey in it, which reads softer in a room with one window.
A matt black or charcoal absorbs light and shows very little reflection, which is what makes it look modern. It also shows fingerprints and grease more readily than a satin finish, most of all around handles and the range.
A charcoal woodgrain keeps the depth of a dark finish but has texture in it, so the surface catches light rather than swallowing it. In a smaller kitchen it is often the more workable dark finish.
Every finish below is held in Norcross. Pricing opens once you register and log in; until then the product pages read "Login to Buy".
Shaker - Charcoal Black Shaker, Shaker Vintage Charcoal
Slim - Slim Charcoal Black
Escada - Escada Vintage Wood
Oxford - Atlanta Onyx Black
European - Matt Charcoal Black
The same finishes are made as wall cabinets, base cabinets, sink bases, drawer bases, corner units and pantry cabinets, with matching moldings and fillers to close the run.
Collect the order the same day at 6115 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Suite E, Norcross, GA 30071, Monday to Saturday 9:00 to 17:00, or have it delivered in 7 to 10 business days anywhere across the metro. Service areas lists every city on the route.
Before ordering it is worth working through how to measure a kitchen and what kitchen cabinets cost. If the stock sizes do not cover the room, that is what custom cabinetry is for.
The full stocked range also covers white, grey, blue, green, natural wood and brown and espresso. Cabinet colours compares them side by side, and shop cabinets lists every collection.
If you are starting from the beginning, kitchen cabinets in Atlanta covers what to expect from first measurement to install day.
A fully black kitchen in a room with one window will read smaller. Black used as an island or a base run under pale uppers does not - the contrast gives the eye a place to stop rather than closing the room in.
Brass and bronze give warmth and visible contrast; matt black hardware disappears into the door, which is deliberate but leaves the room with no jewellery. Stainless reads coldest of the three.
It shows marks sooner than satin, particularly around handles and beside the range. It is worth planning where the handles sit rather than discovering it later.
It is the most reliable pairing available. Grain is not a colour, so it never competes with the black, and a wood island or hood keeps a dark kitchen from feeling severe.
At 6115 Jimmy Carter Blvd, Suite E, Norcross, GA 30071, Monday to Saturday 9:00 to 17:00. Sample doors are the only reliable way to judge a finish against your own floor and countertop.
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