Installing Kitchen Doors

In this new age that we live in, it is no longer a given that installing kitchen cabinet doors is a job for a professional. Nor will it necessarily take hours upon hours for you to do yourself. Why is this, you ask? Well, it’s because you can now simply go to a home improvement or furniture store such as IKEA, Home Depot, or Lowe’s, and buy the premade kitchen cabinet. It is already ready to be installed as soon as you drive it on home.

The first thing you will want to do, however, is to determine what style kitchen doors are going to be most flattering to your home. This basically involves comparing wood versus other materials, such as stainless steel or glass doors.

Color must also be considered; think of it in relation to the rest of your kitchen and make sure everything matches before you make your purchase. What kind of molding do you want? What about the handles and the overall style? It might help to keep a little checklist so you can follow along with yourself and cross out options that won’t work.

The next step in installing your kitchen doors is to determine whether you want to work with a stock, semi-custom, or completely customized set. These basically represent a range of options from most restrictive (stock) up to least restrictive (custom). The latter will obviously be more expensive and use a higher-grade wood.

A further option is to take your existing doors out of the kitchen and sending them off to be refaced. Cabinet refacing involves giving the kitchen doors a facelift, renewing tired and outdated surfaces if they are painted or if they’ve been knocked around to the extent that they simply devalue the entire room. A good kitchen cabinet refacing job can change the entire look of your kitchen doors. When they’ve been redone, it will be a simple matter of rehanging the doors to have them installed again.

One of the best things about going with stock kitchen doors is that beyond their cheap price tag they are quick and easy. All you have to do is make some measurements and then order them. They will arrive at your house quickly, and are the easiest to install.

If you plan on ordering custom cabinets, well I’m sorry but you’re going to have to wait upwards of a month. That’s the downside. But the upside is that you will (hopefully) have a nicer looking kitchen when all is said and done.

Nowadays kitchen door manufacturers have really gone a long way toward making the installation process easier for consumers. I really applaud them for this maneuver, as it allows us to save a bit of money when we want to take on some of the work ourselves. Big box vendors have made the process even more streamlined by having stock cabinets available all day every day, and even offering to deliver them right to your front step.