Refacing Kitchen Cabinets

Refacing kitchen cabinets is worth due to the return on investment that you get out of it. But what is kitchen cabinet refacing anyway? It is one way to give your kitchen a new look and feel, a new style, basically it is remodeling it when you can't afford to buy a whole new kitchen furniture altogether.

When you are refacing your kitchen cabinets you will replace or veneer the parts of the existing cabinet that are visible to all. Also you replace completely drawer fronts and all the cabinet doors. Having your kitchen refaced can give an entire new look to your kitchen while saving lots of money in the process when you can't afford something new entirely. Who said that only women can get a face lift? Kitchen can get one too!

When you are refacing your cabinets for your kitchen, you can coordinate a new wall paint or a new flooring design ending up with a really stylish kitchen. If you are a DIY type of person, this project is just right for you. It will take a while to get it done, but imagine the final result and imagine the adoring and thankful look on your wife's face when she will finally see her new kitchen. That is worth it all in the first place!

While you are doing your cabinets refacing, you can also do other jobs in the kitchen such as add a "lazy susan" in one of the corner cabinets, add self-closing hinges that are very useful when your wife is in the habit of opening and closing the cabinet doors all the time, or even add roll-out shelves for those heavy pots, making better use of your existing space in your cabinets.

You can actually complete a refacing job in a few days only and the cost is really small, a fraction of the cost of actually remodeling your entire kitchen.

Of course refacing kitchen cabinets does not come without its drawbacks as well. You really need to have the patience and be a do-it-yourself type of person to start such a task. You also need to have all the necessary tools and materials needed as you have to do many different things requiring many different set of tools. If you are in the middle of the cabinet refacing job and you're missing a particular screwdriver, you won't be able to proceed until you go out there and buy a new one. Waste of time.

Also you need to plan in advance and plan well which might take you a couple of weeks before you start the facing work. Ordering the materials in advance is a must. So basically only undertake a kitchen cabinet refacing job if you are sure you can actually do it from start to finish and you enjoy the work as well. Otherwise you either leave it to the professionals or get yourself a new kitchen style involving stainless steel cabinets, for example, which don't really need refacing at all and they look 'tres chic' and very modern. Many people go for stainless steel or metal cabinets for their kitchen as this seems to be the latest rage with younger couples. And with right, as they truly look sleek and give your kitchen a futuristic and modern look.