Your Can Save Money With Cabinet Refacing
I see people in hardware stores paying out big money to buy new cabinets. I can’t help but wonder if they know about the cheaper option out there called cabinet refacing. A professional craftsman builds custom doors, veneer side panels, and changes the hardware on your current cabinet body. Done right, cabinet refacing will look just as good as new cabinets and it has several advantages.
- You don’t have to spend the extra money that it cost to buy the wood framing. Your cost will only include the wood side pannels and new doors. The savings can be up to 60% over the cost of a new set of cabinets.
- The building process is much quicker. The cabinet company can complete the building process in a couple of days and finsish the install in a few hours.
- Using a cabinet maker versus pre made cabinets gives you the ability to customize the design of the doors. You can match the molding to other doors in the house or something you’ve seen on a luxurious cabinet set.
You can easily get quotes for this service by doing a search on google or bing for cabinet refacing. You will see local companies in your area that can give you a quote for this service. Always get a few quotes because pricing can be very different from one builder to another. Confirm that they are not using plastic doors to cut cost, non wood doors may feel cheap.
The final thing Im going to mention is the ability to do this by yourself. Multiply resource are avaliable online and in books that show you how to reface your cabinets by yourself. I have to warn you that the quality will look much less than a professional’s work. To keep it simple, the process entails cutting the new cabinet skin out of a thin piece of plastic vinyl and gluing it to the cabinet sides. This won’t help the value of your home and it might even devalue it. The only advantage is instead of paying a few thousand dollars for a professional, you only have about $200 in cost.
