The Three Simple Ways On Remodeling Cabinet For The Kitchen

By Paul Fox


The kitchen cabinet is one type of a built in furniture that is used for storing the dishes, silverware, cooking equipment, and food. Usually, some appliances like ovens, refrigerator, and dishwashers are integrated into a kitchen cabinetry. There are many available cabinet types presently.

So for you to achieve a perfect and quick makeover, focus on the renovation of the cabinets. Doing the renovation by yourself may give your lesser costs compared to hiring professionals to do the job. And also, remodeling cabinet Seattle WA may only require some little upgrades and changes in order to make it look new again, so you need not to worry.

The remodeling or renovation may be done only in 3 easy steps. First is replacing the hinges and the handles. To make it easy for you, to make an inexpensive way on doing this, and to give it a new look, you need to replace all existing hard wares. One important part of cabinets are the handles. If the handles are pulls and you want to replace it with knobs, you will have a difficulty on dealing with the 2 holes because knobs only have one hole at the center.

But there is no need for you to worry because the knob can still be installed by placing a faceplate at the front of the drawer before installing the knob. Usually, the faceplates are used for covering the holes that are being created by drawer pulls. There are also available faceplates to be used for pulls having 2 holes.

When you will replace the hinges, be sure to know if the cabinets are making use of mortise hinges or non mortise hinges. Know also if hinges will be required on being either a semi concealed or a fully concealed. Next is refinishing those existing cabinets. If the cabinets that you have are still solid in looks but you already tired of having that look, consider to change the finishes by painting or by staining.

When doing this, you may leave your cabinet in the position and you will not be needing to clear out everything and live with those empty boxes in few or several weeks. But you still need to check if the items are not placed near the front edges if the area is being painted or stained. Before painting or staining, be sure to smoothen and clean the surfaces which are going to be painted.

In order to smoothen the surfaces, use the fine grit sandpaper. This can smoothen those rough areas. Nicks, digs, and other imperfections may be filled by using the wall filler or the latex wood filler when priming is not started yet. Follow the given instructions carefully when filling.

And the last step is to reface the existing cabinets. To reface can be the perfect choice if ever you just want the cabinet to have some changes in style such as the doors and the drawers. So that you can achieve the matches in color, you may apply a veneer on the front part of cabinet.

There are many companies already in Seattle, WA that are selling some veneer panels which are made from thick plywood, similar to woods used in drawer fonts and doors. You can purchase also a stained or an unstained type of drawer front, plywood panel, door, and veneer. An unstained type gives more options for color.




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