Kitchen Cabinet Facelift: Repurpose Doors To Save Money

Reader Contribution by Hank Will and Editor-In-Chief
Published on February 24, 2011
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Now that the <a title=”mud room project ” href=”http://www.grit.com/tools/how-to-make-a-new-mudroom.aspx”>mud room project </a>is completed, my Partner in Culinary Crime (PICC) and I have moved on to stage one of the next project, which is a kitchen cabinet facelift. We live in a 104 year old farm house that was outfitted with built-in-place hardwood plywood cabinets in the 1970s, and while those kitchen cabinets are roomy, they really needed a facelift. Since neither of us is interested in blowing&nbsp; $40,000 or more on a kitchen update or putting a bunch&nbsp;more stuff into the landfill or burn pile,&nbsp;we put our heads together and decided against buying new doors for the cabinets. We chose instead to modify them to look like something that they are not. So with minimal investment in anything other than time and a few tools, we transformed the well dated kitchen cabinet doors into something that looks a little more rustic and makes for a much brighter kitchen.
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