Resurface Kitchen Cupboard Doors

Work carefully while refacing your kitchen cabinet doors and your kitchen will look brand new when you re done.

Resurface kitchen cupboard doors.

An overlay is how the cabinet doors lay on the cabinet face. Select new cabinet doors made from solid wood rigid thermofoil or bamboo. How to refinish kitchen cabinets step 1. Refacing kitchen cabinet doors is really just a matter of switching out the doors after covering all the exposed parts of the frame with veneer that matches the new finish.

In a nutshell here s how to reface cabinets. Before you do any refinishing macfarlane recommends starting this project by thoroughly scrubbing your kitchen cabinetry. Refacing cabinets is a great way to give your kitchen a new look with a minimum of mess and inconvenience. Recessed panel cabinet doors feature a simple doorframe with a recessed panel in the middle.

Standard overlays also called traditional overlays leave the face of the cabinet box visible around doors and drawers creating a type of frame. Then choose your overlay style. Remove the doors and drawers and cover the front edges of the cabinets with peel and stick wood veneer. There are two overlay styles.

When refacing an installer removes the doors and drawers laminates the existing cabinet boxes in the new color style material and then replaces the doors drawers with all new. Shaker doors are actually a type of recessed panel door in addition to cabinets with glass or decorative boards as the center panel. Step 1 refacing cabinets overview illustration by gregory nemec.