Economical Update With Kitchen Cabinet Refacing

Replacing your kitchen cabinet doors is only one of the ways in which your kitchen will get a quick makeover that will cost way less than completely renovating the room. Another low cost method will allow you to keep your existing doors.

The option of kitchen cabinet refacing gives you the chance to freshen up the kitchen without having to go through the sometimes arduous task of deciding on new door materials, patterns or styles. Removing and replacing kitchen cabinets will be an expensive exercise and in a lot of cases doing so is not necessary. If your cabinets are still in good condition, a refacing job on the kitchen doors can result in a transformation that will significantly modernize the room.

As the name suggests kitchen cabinet refacing is a treatment of the doors where they are given a complete freshen up. It may involve removing any old peeling paint or RTF foil, the wood surface may have to be stripped back, cracks will be filled, dents repaired and, if required, a new paint job is applied. The refacing will also include a thorough clean of the surface of the doors with dishwashing liquid. For RTF doors a new self-adhesive covering may be applied.

This process is sometimes also referred to as cabinet front replacement or cabinet restyling. It’s a job that you can do yourself quite adequately or you can remove the doors and drawers and send them away to be professionally refaced. Part of the process will also involve resurfacing the cabinet face frames and sides before refitting the door and drawer fronts.

When performing cabinet refacing the job is done on site with the cabinetry performed in the kitchen. The kitchen doors would naturally be removed and for the most part, they would be replaced with custom made ones.

If the doors are beyond repair the refacing job will involve discarding the old doors and buying new ones with only the cabinets getting the updated treatment.

When refacing your kitchen doors it will also be necessary to update the door knobs, handles and hinges. There’s not much point restyling the door surfaces so they look fresh and brand new and then leaving the old rusted hinges behind to stick out like a sore thumb. It’s the same for the kitchen door handles.

Performing a kitchen door refacing job may also give you the opportunity to change the style of the doors or to move up to a more expensive looking door. Changing to a wooden door doesn’t have to cost the earth either by updating the door surface with wood veneer or a combination of veneer and wood.

The option of turning dated kitchen doors into light and modern features is easily achieved through a professional refacing job. You can turn the dark cabinetry that was popular in the 1970s into a light, clean and stylish modern kitchen with the use of some oak or maple doors.