Can Metal Kitchen Cabinets(1950′s) Be Refaced With The New Refacing Process?
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at
10:04 pm
The cabinets are metal and we’ve painted them enough and want to change them inexpensively. Maybe door and drawer refacing or replacement? We don’t want to take the cabinets out.
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Maybe try removing the doors and painting the inside of the cabinets a bold color, then replace with glass front cabinets. It would probably look better then putting wood front cabinets on metal bases. Put new hardware of the drawers and attach wood molding strips painted (same color as the cabinets) about 3″ in from each cabinet to make a square (hope I am explaining that clearly). So the top cabinets would have the glass fronts, the drawers new hardware and the bottoms would have the molding strips making a square on the fronts of all the bottoms.
You might try cutting out sections and making the metal doors look like picture frames. Then you can insert wood veneer and/or glass in them. The cabinet would maintain their historical and basic look but would be updated- cheaply. Replace the knobs to match. If you added a full wooden door it might be too heavy and sag later on the metal. Those cabinets are in style now and can be fixed up so nice in many ways. If you like modern you can paint them silver or put the contact paper that looks like stainless steel-they use it on refrigerators! You can also paint them and do a great red ,white, and black kit.Or use the tourqoise and pink and brown for a little more out there look! With the stainless look you can have a modern or industrial or mod look from the 70′s!! Best wishes!