Cabinet Refacers Do More Than Just a Pretty Facelift

By Leslie A.M.
RefacingCabinet.com Columnist

It's obvious to call cabinet refacers when you want your cherry cabinets to recapture their true beauty, but they can also help you spruce up what's inside your cabinets. If your cabinets started with basic shelves from top to bottom, maybe you can use an upgrade to some more modern conveniences.

Here are five tasks you can assign to cabinet refacers to help you achieve a custom kitchen look:

1. Maple Kitchen Cabinets Come Around

Maple, oak, cherry--whatever you have, you might have a need for a lazy susan to better organize a corner cabinet. After all, you'd make waffles much more often if you could see where the waffle iron was and be able to get it out.

2. Staining Kitchen Cabinets … With Wine?

Why not take the door off of a cabinet and install a wine rack where the boring shelves now sit? The diamond pattern grid is absolutely more interesting than a rectangular cabinet door.

3. New Shape for Replacement Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Tilt-down drawers are great compartments for holding dish brushes in front of the kitchen sink, or to hold a butter spreader and toast tongs in the cabinet in front of the toaster.

4. Glass Kitchen Cabinets in New Places

On the side or back of an island, install a shallow cabinet with lighting and glass kitchen cabinets to display some of your finest serving dishes.

5. Pull Out All the Stops On Kitchen Renovations

These days, pull out cabinets are awfully efficient for storing pantry items, spices, and a few cookie sheets stored on end.

When you look up cabinet refacers to hire, think of everything you can have them do in your kitchen. They can change your humdrum, ordinary kitchen to a custom kitchen that is extraordinary.

 

About The Author

Leslie A.M. Smith is a freelance writer and desperately needs a new kitchen. Until she can afford it, she has her eye on refacing her cabinets.