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[Carmie]

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@Still Raining wrote:

If painting is your option, couldn't the holes be filled in and painted over?  Then you could start fresh with your choice of hinges.

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You are correct, this works.  My sister had hammered black outside hinges on her knotty pine cupboards.

We removed the doors and filled in the holes on the cabinet doors and on the cabinets with wood putty, sanded and painted the cupboards white.  New hidden hinges were added and you can't even tell the hardware was replaced.

No professional needed.  I did the putty work, my DH painted.

[DecorDiva]

@geegerbee  -  the hinges were stock hinges, but the doors had to be reduced in size in order to install the hinges so that they would close properly.  Also, my cabinets were made, they were not stock, so that may be why the doors had to be adjusted.  Maybe with stock cabinets you could just fill in the holes and add inside hinges.

[gardenman]

Offset hinges are still made in an astounding variety of sizes, shapes and materials. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find identical new hinges through one source or another. There's a site called cabinetparts.com that has a large variety. (They call them semi concealed hinges.) Home Depot and Lowes sell some. There are hinge only websites that sell thousands of different hinges. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find a suitable replacement hinge. There's also the option of having the old hinges plated or replated. It would be expensive, but it's doable.