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Taunton Press

Refacing Cabinets: Making an Old Kitchen New (Fine Homebuilding)

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By refacing old cabinets, virtually anyone with basic skills can make a kitchen or any room in the house look stunning at a fraction of the cost of new. The secret is knowing how to refurbish old cabinets by applying high- quality wood laminate and new cabinet doors, door fronts, and/or trim. This book shows readers everything they need to know to achieve professional results. 130 color photos. 50 drawings. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Taunton Press; 0 edition (November 1, 1997)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1561581976


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 79


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.45 x 10 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #490,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #261 in Home Repair #266 in Carpentry #623 in Woodworking Projects (Books)


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    • Turned out great!!
I completely refaced my kitchen with the help from this book and it turned out fantastic. It covered all of the steps necessary to do the job. This was a much better source than the brief installation instructions provided by the manufacturer of the product that I ended up using. Before reading this book, I was leaning toward replacing my cabinets instead of refacing because I didn't like the idea that when you open the cabinet doors you can see the old facing on the face frame sides. But the author uses a technique to wrap the facing around the interior sides of the face frame which makes it look like solid wood rather than an applied veneer. It was quite a bit extra work to do it this way but the results were well worth it. I highly recommend this book to anyone considering doing a DIY cabinet reface. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2011 by M. Williamson
    • Face frame cabinets only--not a word about Euro style cabinets
This is a reasonably thorough book and will probably be a good reference for upgrading face-frame cabinets. I expected it to cover non-face-frame (European frameless) cabinets, but there's not a word in the book about them. Since the cabinets I am considering refacing are the Euro-style frameless kind, I will have to do additional research to complete my project. For example, a lot of the Euro-style cabinets were made of melamine; are the stick-on veneers appropriate for covering melamine? The edges of frameless cabinets are only about 3/4"; can you apply these stick-on veneers to such narrow edges and not have them lift off after a year? I was also looking for ideas about how to handle the cabinet interiors; many of these melamine cabinets come in white or light colors; when you apply wood veneers and add a wood door, the contrast between the new wood edges, sides and doors would not be pleasing -- how do you go about updating the cabinet interiors to minimize this contrast? Bottom line -- this is a good reference for refacing cabinets, but just doesn't go far enough to talk about frameless cabinets and the challenges mentioned above. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2011 by Retired Guy
    • Four Stars
Looks good but decided not to do the work myself. But it would help if I had.
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014 by vickster
    • Buy this book before you think about refacing!
This book is very thorough, and reading it convinced me to skip refacing (I think I have the skills) and just buy new cabinets. There's much more work involved than I appreciated and the disruption to the kitchen doesn't look to be much less than simply replacing the cabinets and cupboards.
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2009 by Akamai22
    • Wow its a project alright
I think this book is going to convince me to have help. The detail and info is a bit dated because the book is from the 90's but I am glad it gave me more things to consider.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2012 by Colleen
    • So dated that the newly refaced cabinets in the photos look old too.
Very dated. To the point of laughter. Sometimes I couldn’t tell which was the before or after. That being said there is some good information; however, I think it likely dated too. Youtube has some more current info.
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2018 by C2ry
    • Not what I expected
I was hoping this book would be helpful in painting the cabinets, instead it tells you about laminating and veneering cabinets.
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2012 by M Shap
    • Should have looked at the publication date of 1997. ...
Should have looked at the publication date of 1997. Most examples too dated to be of much use to me. Instructions for measuring, etc. are still relevant though.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2015 by retirededitor

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