We bought a second home in the town I work most of the week. Its a fixer upper...upper. We are being very cautious in how much we put into with an eye of keeping it as long as we need it then selling it at a later date. The kitchen cabinets are solid, plain and a lovely off green color. At first we were just going to give them a nice clean coat of white, but I came up with I think is a nice way of updating the style when do paint them. Original. Test fit of some 1/4" thick stock to make it look like a mission style cabinet. What do you think? I like it....labor intensive but a cheap upgrade in my book.
I like it. Simple but it gives it an accent to dress it up a little. I ended up refacing our kitchen cabinets with 1/4" oak bead board and oak rabbetted trim around it.
Thanks everyone...getting excited to start work on this project. fishingpol...those cabinets look great.
Hello We also had plain doors on our good maple cabinets. So we just got some nice new raised panel doors and new nickel hardware and popped them on. Also remove the blank panels above the cabinets for a lighted shelf area with our decorative plates!
Great job guys! Anyone wanting to redo my kitchen cabinets can go have at it. It's so dark, dark oak, and they carry on throughout the whole house.
Got a few of the drawers done so far. Here is one showing the difference between it and an original door.
Did you make those as floating panels ( for humidity expansion/contraction) or just a solid connections all around? I really liked the look of another members bead board style units. I priced out cabinet doors and drawer fronts a while back, I think I have recovered sufficiently from the heart attack now.
I'd help you out... If I wasn't so far away! I build custom cabinets all day every day. We build new only, no refacing... but I see nothing wrong with doing it, as long as the existing cabinets are good quality. The main problem around here is that I rarely see cabinets that I would consider good quality. Here's some work I did for my SIL. We installed 5/8 plywood sub-tops, and it's ready for granite... The uppers will go in after, since some of them will sit down on top of the counter. The old upper cabinets still need torn out. Sorry for the crappy pic.
Schlot, Looks great. I vote for leaving the picture framed pieces natural in color, no stain just varnish then up and they will age a little to a nice golden hue. Hope you're going to do the doors too. How are you going to handle those hinges with the picture frames on the doors?
I have yet to talk to anyone in my neck of the woods that actually makes their own cabinets and doors any more- everything ordered out from a half dozen or so cnc places, pricing out from those sources is what gave me a heart attack- LOL. I rebuilt the face frame lowers to relevel everything out and put 3/4" plywood on top. Granite was installed late last summer. Drawer fronts and doors are all oak veneer plywood and after some 45+ years have lamination separation from use, and of course are just plain dated.
Thanks man. Yes doing all the doors also. I hope to mock up a door and post a picture this week. Your idea of leaving the new trim natural sounds interesting. Will have to think about it.
We order all of our raw materials from a local supplier, and cut every piece out by hand. All of our cabinets are custom built to fit the space, while most premade boxes are built in 3 inch increments and use fillers to take up the remaining space. We build some of our doors, but most we order from a custom door builder, mostly because it's just too time consuming, and it's hard to keep the cutters for all the different door styles.
I can understand the cutters- I sharpen them and the different set ups required drive me bit out of my mind at times.
Schlot, The contrast of the wood grain and the painted inside panel adds visual appeal and interest. Let the natural color of the wood do its thing. From your photo if your not going to change the flooring the natural wood look will work too. I'll look for your photo of the door mockup.
