What You Should Know About Refacing Kitchen Cabinets

Refacing kitchen cabinets is a cost efficient way of refurbishing your kitchen. When refacing kitchen cabinets you will not be spending a lot because you retain the basic structures and the layout is the same. During refacing what they do normally is replace the doors, the fronts of the drawers and some other hardware like the hinges and handles.

Choosing an overall theme or design would be your concern when refacing kitchen cabinets. One of the more popular is the StarMark cabinetry designs which highlight the textures and colors. StarMark will let you pick which part of the kitchen or cabinets to accentuate and they will work on that. They combine contrasting details and accommodate personalized accessories such as framed art. StarMark has decorative woods and metal hardware, carved wood and metal onlays, and carved mouldings and turned posts among other styles. They also feature soft close system which allows cabinets and drawers to open and close silently especially when you're considering refacing the front.

When talking about refacing kitchen cabinets, one cannot help but drop the name of Wellborn cabinets. The company is known for great style and well thought of functionalities. The company can produce simple to intricate and either from traditional to the more contemporary kitchen and bathroom cabinet designs. Among what Wellborn offers include Lancaster maple and Harmony cherry doors with nutmeg, espresso, cranberry, or cocoa cabinet finish. They produce custom moulding refacing as well which fits a variety of hardware and cabinet styles. Everything can be personalized, of course. When considering refacing, clients can choose specific combinations of doors, finish, mouldings and hardware.

Refacing kitchen cabinets can be a confusing task especially if you don’t know what style you want in the first place. People who are refacing kitchen cabinets sometimes decide to go back to the classics, which is not bad at all. The typical classic style kitchen includes the use of more neutral colors like whites, creams, or beiges. Basically the color scheme is either monochromatic or duo-chromatic. The style uses dark wood or other neutral colors. Neutral colors are timeless and fits most styles of future upgrades. Classic style also uses a lot of symmetrical items which goes without saying that other hardware and accessories should be bought in pairs.

If classical doesn’t work for you, a traditionalist view might. Refacing kitchen cabinets is always considered an investment especially if you’re planning to sell your house in the future. A traditional kitchen might be a good way to go since the designs are basically simple, clean and involves straight lines which appeals to almost anyone. A traditional kitchen cabinet design uses light colors and unique and beautiful accents. Hardware choices include solid brass for added sophistication and elegance, iron for a rough and tough look and pewter hardware which shows the look of authentic silver. Other marks of a traditional cabinet system are braid, copper and leaf knobs.