Kitchen Cabinet Styles

Refacing your kitchen cabinets can offer you just as many options as replacing them altogether. You can choose from a variety of options including ultra modern, rustic, or antique. No matter what your preferences, you can easily find a kitchen cabinet product to match your home's style and your decorating sensibilities.

Choosing a Cabinet Refacing Material

The three primary material options when refacing your kitchen cabinets are wood veneer, plastic laminates, and rigid thermofoils (RFTs). Glass, with a wood, plastic, or RTF frame is another possibility.

Wood options, including alder, cherry, ash, oak, hickory, and maple, which generally cost 10 to 25 percent more than plastic or RTFs. Veneers have a thin sheet of wood--about 1/16th of an inch for fronts and 3/16ths of an inch for sides. RTF has a 1/16th of an inch thick poly-chloride coating. RTF is available in solid colors or printed to look like wood grain. Billed as "kid proof," RTFs can't be scratched or marred the way plastic laminates can.

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware

The style of your new kitchen cabinet hardware can also dramatically shape the look of your refaced kitchen cabinets. Hardware is available to match any decor with choices in wood, brass, porcelain, nickel, ceramic, plastic, pewter, stone, stainless steel, zinc, aluminum, and chrome.

Kitchen Cabinet Accessories

No kitchen is complete without accessories. Once your new refaced cabinets are complete, finish your kitchen's facelift with the addition of a new chopping block, cookbook rack, wine glass holder, plate racks, a roll-out recycling center, slide out and swing out shelves, spice drawers, or a super Susan.

We've compiled a list of the top kitchen cabinet refacing styles and materials below:

Kitchen Cabinet Wood Options: Alder, Cherry, Ash, Oak, Hickory, Maple

Kitchen Cabinet Non-Wood Options: Thermofoil, Glass, Colored Laminates

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware: Wood, Brass, Porcelain, Nickel, Ceramic, Plastic, Pewter, Stone, Stainless Steel, Zinc, Aluminum, Chrome

Kitchen Cabinet Accessories: Chopping Blocks, Baskets, Cookbook rack, Wine Glass Holder, Pasta Drawer, Plate Rack, Pocket Doors, 4-bin Recycling Center, Slide out Shelves, Spice Drawers, Super Susan, Swing Out Shelves, Towel Rack

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