Kitchen cabinets have come a long way in the last 20 years. Today’s kitchen cabinet is typically made of a more durable material than its twenty-year-old counterpart.  Most kitchen cabinets today are made from High Moisture Resistant medium density fibreboard or chipboard (HMR-MDF).  This material does not swell and blow out upon contact with moisture as with the material of 20 years ago.

Full custom designed kitchen cabinets even go a step further than this when it comes to quality improvements. Some kitchen companies operating at the quality end of the market will design and build kitchen cabinets to suit every conceivable use, incorporating highly functional hardware and being built to last in excess of 15 to 20 years!

It is important when you are deciding on getting a new kitchen that you look closely at the features of different manufacturers of kitchen cabinets. Most companies these days are working under some constraints when designing due to the fact that they adhere to "industry standard" modular sizing. There are very good reasons for the widespread "standardisation" of kitchen cabinetry not least of which has been the lowering of cost due to manufacturing efficiency. Companies like IKEA and Freedom furniture produce a good quality product at very cheap prices. Like all mass produced items however, there are downsides that you need to be aware of such as the design limitations mentioned above.

If you want total design flexibility then you will need to select a manufacturer who builds the whole kitchen in their own premises to completely custom specifications. Custom kitchen builders such as Sydney’s Danish Designer Kitchens offer design services and kitchen cabinet manufacture without limitations. This would include custom widths and heights and more importantly the depth of cabinets, which offers more unique storage functionality allowing for deeper more space efficient drawers.