This is the Year to Reface Your Cabinets and Give Your Kitchen a Pick Me Up

For better or worse, we spend a lot of time in our kitchens over the holidays. If you're suffering from kitchen fatigue, the problem may be your kitchen and not you. Perhaps it's time for a change. But before you start ripping out cabinets and knocking down walls, ponder this statistic for a moment--a 2007 report in Remodeling Magazine states that the average cost of a full kitchen remodeling job is $55,503.

Refinishing Kitchen Cabinets: A Better, Cheaper Way
If you are thinking of redesigning your kitchen, but like most of us, balk at the cost, consider refacing your kitchen cabinets. Refacing or resurfacing your kitchen cabinets is an easy way to give your kitchen a new look and feel without spending tens of thousands of dollars.

Kitchen Cabinet Resurfacing: The Process
Cabinet refacing provides new doors for the front of your cabinets and spiffs up the cabinet boxes without the mess, headache, and cost of rearranging your kitchen's layout. A full resurfacing job replaces the doors, the drawer fronts, and the cabinet's hardware. Cabinet exteriors are covered with wood, paint, or a laminate veneer that matches the door.

Get Started Refinishing Your Cabinets
Using a professional is generally the way to go for cabinet refinishing, but more ambitious homeowners can tackle this project themselves. To determine the cost and size of your refinishing project, count the number of cabinets. Count each door, drawer, and end panel as one unit. Companies often charge per unit installed. You should take careful measurements of cabinet openings to be certain how much material you need.

Resurfaced Kitchen Cabinets are New Cabinets
After the resurfacing, your refinished cabinets look completely different from your old cabinets. From every angle, they look brand new because they are new cabinets. With cabinet resurfacing, you get the same result as replacing them, but at a much more reasonable cost.

Sources:
Bob Vila, Refacing Kitchen Cabinets
Remodeling Magazine, Remodeling Cost vs. Value Report 2007

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