September 21, 2011
Cabinet Re-Facing - Offering A Quick Pick-Me-Up For Your Kitchen
Probably the number one room where the remodeling can add tremendous value to your property is the kitchen and it’s also one of the most popular rooms in the home. With house flippers, a large portion of their budget will be focused on the kitchen because it is the biggest draw for house shoppers. What if your kitchen is in need of a face lift but you don’t have the major budget of a seasoned house flipper? A strong first impression is what you will get if you simply re-face your kitchen cabinets.
This will require a redo of both the hardware and the front faces of the cabinets. The doors, drawer fronts, cabinet handles, and the cabinet body fronts are all included in this.
One of the most common methods is to repaint all cabinet surfaces and doors and it’s probably the cheapest as well. Usually, you can accomplish the entire job in 2 or 3 days which means that this process doesn’t have to be time consuming. It is advised that you do all the door and drawer painting outside or in a well ventilated are of your home because it does make a bit of a mess. For the cabinet body fronts you’ll paint them where they stand so put up plastic sheeting over the doorways to prevent excess paint and fumes from leaking into other rooms of your house.
The other most popular method is to simply replace all the doors, drawers and hardware while leaving the cabinet bodies in place and either painting or refinishing those. This method allows you the fun and freedom of shopping for new cabinet doors but also saving hundreds or thousands of dollars over the price of entirely new cabinets.
You will also be allowed a lot of creative freedom from cabinet re-facing. Individuals who are crafty would often cut out the middle section of cabinet doors and it they will be replaced with punched copper, dried food materials in colorful arrangements, shiny objects between panes of glass, and other materials. Providing a more open space visually is simply using glass insets but you need to be sure that you are on the neat side as visitors will see the entire contents of your cabinets.
Before starting your cabinet refacing project check out various kitchen remodeling photos on the internet and in your local home improvement stores. There are a lot of great ideas that will suit any budget. Most of all, have fun and enjoy the pick-me-up!
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Filed under Kitchen Cabinets by Willie Green