There are plenty of refacing options for your cabinets. You may be refacing them to change the look or style of your kitchen. Perhaps you’re considering refacing because the cabinet doors, hardware, or drawer fronts have fallen into disrepair. Or you may be readying your home for sale and want a alluring look in the kitchen.
One of the benefits of refacing is that you can change the look of your cabinets to match flooring, counters, or backsplashes that you’ve added over time that no longer fit with the old cabinet fronts. Face Your Kitchen offers some great suggestions for refacing styles, including country, contemporary, romantic, old world, and craftsman.
Finding the Right Hardware
You should speak with your contractor about the kinds of hardware available for the refacing scheme. If you’re considering a country-style refacing project, you may want slightly distressed beadboard veneer along with open shelves for accents. Contemporary hardware is typically slender or sparse in ornamentation. Craftsman cabinetry is often highlighted by glass paneled doors and iron hardware.
Repair Home suggests using simple peel-and-stick backed veneer to change the color scheme. It’s a cost-effective way to achieve dramatic new effects without breaking the budget. Allison E. Beatty at Old House Web recommends coordinating lighting, flooring, and metal accents to complete the overall theme. She suggests hiring cabinet refacing professionals by their specialty in your era or period décor.
I’d add that unless you have direct successful experience in doing the job yourself, you get professional help. Potentially botching the job may mean sacrificing the considerable savings that a refacing produces over a complete new cabinet job.
