Kitchen Remodeling – Replace or Reface Kitchen Cabinet Doors?

Putting in a new kitchen may be one of the priciest home projects you are likely to carry out today. Your kitchen and indeed your bathroom tend to be the 2 most expensive areas to renovate. In earlier times these two rooms would be left basically untouched for a long time yet now people love to carry on modernizing just about every few years. No more kitchens made to go on for 25 years; at the moment we must have the very latest styles and fashions and keep updating.

With respect to any kitchen redesign individuals are searching for ways to customize the look and feel of the area but in a cost effective way. Instead of a total redesign a lot more people will in fact contemplate only updating the existing kitchen. Have a quick look at two commonly used methods to make it happen; replacing kitchen doors and kitchen door refacing. Both of them are really quite different therefore let’s think about what exactly these are and then which may be best for your family.

Kitchen cabinet door refacing is precisely what its name suggests – fitting a different skin covering onto the current doors. It’s usually accomplished by gluing a very thin sheet made of wood, known as a veneer, to the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers. It’s a product supplied by expert companies or if you are brave, you can find do-it-yourself sets to complete the job. These kitchen door veneers help you to get a new style and color for your kitchen storage units with no need to change everything. It’s a low cost method however in my estimation seldom looks great. There are specific difficulties with this process. To successfully reface all of the cupboard doors is a skillful project not realistically tailored to a typical owner of a house. Most people will need to pay someone professional to do the job. If this is the case and you need to pay to have the job done, you could have probably have paid a little more and replaced the cabinet doors in the first instance. We also have the matter of the new veneer faces lasting long term — they can often begin to peel at the edges and can damage easily before long.

Kitchen door replacement would be the more advantageous solution for most of us. In the first place this technique seems to be more costly than refacing but many people could do the work themselves saving quite a bit on the installation expenses. You only need exact measuring and a few general do it yourself skills. The old kitchen doors are usually effortless to take off and so long as you get the precise shapes and sizes the brand new cupboard doors should go on without any difficulty. The work should be quick and easy for most people. Kitchen door replacement is seen as the superior, long-term choice that will still help save a lot of cash versus upgrading your entire kitchen.

These two approaches require the old units to generally be in a good order. They also tend to be suitable with kitchen renovation in which the kitchen cabinetry isn’t being moved. When you need to switch everything around and start to move cabinets, you really should consider a full new kitchen. To add to the changes you could swap the door handles, which sometimes can have a great impact on the whole style. If you want to create even more changes to the appearance of the kitchen you can easily switch work tops, sinks, taps and then the ceramic tiles and general decor. It depends on exactly how much work you’re able to handle or are willing to pay for. Kitchen door replacement is usually the most affordable answer in the end, refacing may succeed as a cheap short-term fix but in the end you might end up paying more.

Michael Orr writes for All My Home Needs.com