When installing, do cabinets or flooring come first?
You will also install flooring before appliances.
You’ll Use Less Finish Flooring
Installing kitchen base cabinets before flooring can be a money-saving advantage.
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For example, most of the costly hardwood flooring is usually placed, sight unseen, underneath the cabinets.
So, why pay top dollar for imported hardwood that remains hidden?
Those materials would have to be changed out for flooring that matches the rest of the kitchen.
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The cut edge of the flooring is then covered with quarter-round orbase molding.
Too thick a finished floor could result in having to raise the countertop or remove flooring for appliance replacement.
Another way to achieve this without wasting flooring is to add plywood risers underneath the cabinets and appliances.
The bottom line:Paint before floor installation.
