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Remodeling Your
Kitchen Cabinets
While remodeling your kitchen,
install only the essential cabinets, so you can
spend on quality rather than quantity. Look for
durability, and specify plywood panels rather than
particleboard.
Laminate is economical but still can look classy in
a patterned finish or trimmed with wood edging. You
should put your money into the hardest-working and
most permanent features of the kitchen, especially
the cabinets and countertops.
There are two basic cabinet styles: European-style
(frameless) and face-framed cabinets. Either can be
ordered from custom or semi-custom cabinet-makers or
from stock supplies. Each style has a variety of
door, wood and finish options.
Some cabinet hardware features simulated finishes or
surfaces that look and perform like the real thing.
Brass-plated knobs can substitute for solid brass,
and some plastic pulls mimic the look of solid
surfacing.
Installing cabinets in a remodeled kitchen require
some basic finish carpentry skills. Before starting
any installation, it's a good idea to mark some
level and plumbing reference lines on the walls so
everything lines up properly. Most stock cabinet
layouts won't fit perfectly within a given wall
space, but cabinetmakers provide narrow filler
pieces to fill in the gaps between cabinets.
The most efficient way to start installation is with
the wall cabinets, since the base cabinets would get
in your way if they were already in. It is better to
put the corner units in first, squaring them and
moving toward the center of the wall where you have
more leeway for making adjustments.
If your budget is tight and you want to give a new
look to your kitchen cabinet, you have the option of
re-facing, which involves replacing or veneering the
parts of the cabinet that are visible all the time.
Therefore, the cabinet boxes -- called the cases --
stay in their current layout, but get a new finish
with veneer. Other parts, such as drawer fronts and
cabinet doors, get completely replaced.
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