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@ZoetheCat

Your cabinets turned out beautiful! I'd be so happy too. 👍🏼😍 They did a great job! 

[ID2]

Eee gad! $12,000 to only resurface kitchen cabinets?? Really?? That's outrageous! I could gut and get an entire new kitchen including appliances for that price. I would never just resurface. I'm all for tear out the old and get new! But my past 2 houses were brand new and once you've experienced brand new that's all you want. 

[ZoetheCat]

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@ID2 wrote:

Eee gad! $12,000 to only resurface kitchen cabinets?? Really?? That's outrageous! I could gut and get an entire new kitchen including appliances for that price. I would never just resurface. I'm all for tear out the old and get new! But my past 2 houses were brand new and once you've experienced brand new that's all you want. 

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Actually, we built our house in 1995, so we did have new cabinets at one time.  I think our entire kitchen, including cabinets, countertops and appliances, was around $15,000 when we built.  A friend of mine recently gutted her kitchen and the cost was in the $30,000 range.  Her kitchen is smaller than mine.  As I mentioned earlier, I live in New England and everything seems to be more expensive here.  I watch some of those HGTV shows and am amazed at how much further the budget stretches in some parts of the country.  If I didn’t love where I live, I would probably consider moving.

[Shiloh09]

I too debated the issue of painting or refacing my kitchen cabinets. Sears came to my home to estmate the cost of refacing. It adds up quickly...close to $10000 for a galley litchen! I think there are 11 doors and 5 drawers. This was 4-5 years ago. Don't think it would cost that much for stock cabinets at HD or Lowes. I checked the Habitat for Humanity Restore in my area, but everything was boxed and I didn't want to get something home and be unable to return it if there was damage.

Ultimately we had a professional paint company paint them inside and out.they applies 2 coats of a SW paint for cabinetry followed by a protective coat.Regardless, there are chips on the edges of several doors. I think it has been 3 years since I had the work done. The painters did all the right things, but I think the chips are just part of it in a often used and heavily traffic-ed kitchen. 

[151949]

We have friends whose house had pink cabinets when they bought it. They were in perfect condition so , they took them down, rented a professional sprayer and sander. They cleaned them first with some special cleaner, sanded them so the paint would adhere better and painted them, about 3 coats, and replaced the hardware with a more modern style. I believe they hired a handyman to take them down and hang them back up for them. They looked fabulous when finished. They felt they saved about 2/3 what it would have cost to replace them. They painted them ivory.

Does anyone recall back in the 50's when kitchens frequently had metal cabinets?We had those and it seems every time we turned around my Mom had my poor Dad painting them.I can remember them being white, powder blue, peach, yellow & pink.

[Lipstickdiva]

There is a kit you can buy at Home Depot and redo your cabinets.  My SIL did it but it's only been a couple of years so I'm not sure how it will hold up over time.  It was very time consuming but it looks very nice.

I'm not a fan of painting cabinets only because everyone I know who painted their cabinets end up with peeling and chipping paint which looks horrible.

We had an estimate at least 20 years ago to resurface ours and the estimate back then was in the $7,0000-$8,000.00 range.

To replace our cabinets with the quality that is in there now would cost us a fortune.  Our cabinets are all solid wood inside and out.  There is nothing on them that is veneer or laminate and there is no pressed wood or particle board.  I would have no desire to replace my cabinets with something of a lesser quality.  I'm certainly not going to tear out my all solid wood and replace with what you would walk into a Home Depot or Lowes and buy.  That wouldn't make sense.       

[151949]

@Lipstickdiva  If you've painted them yourself and still have the paint - you can sand down any chips etc and redo them. Should be a simple fix. 

[kivah]

@ZoetheCat

I would also pay more for GREAT work!!! Your kitchen cabinets change the look of the kitchen - and they're the focal point. 

[kivah]

@ID2

I bought my house brand new 17 yrs ago - unfortunately, the builder put in the cheapest plumbing and cheapest kitchen cabinets. They are oak - real wood - but they don't close flush - and they're very boring!!!! My previous new homes had beautiful real wood cabinets - but I'm not liking these.

[VaBelle35]

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@kivah wrote:

@ID2

I bought my house brand new 17 yrs ago - unfortunately, the builder put in the cheapest plumbing and cheapest kitchen cabinets. They are oak - real wood - but they don't close flush - and they're very boring!!!! My previous new homes had beautiful real wood cabinets - but I'm not liking these.

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Our builder used high end on some things and Lowes builder basics for others.  Expensive cabinets and junk windows.  Expensive bathroom vanities, cheap lights.

It makes you scratch your head.