Kitchen Cabinet Refacing
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We have lots of free information about kitchen cabinet refacing from how to prepare your cupboards to replacing old drawer fronts, or completely replacing worn out drawers. New drawer glides are a real benefit, especially if you have wood to wood glides. New kitchen cabinet hardware will top off your kitchen remodeling job and will make your newly refaced cupboards look like brand new custom built cabinets.

Kitchen cabinet refacing and kitchen remodeling are some of the most expensive home change projects there are if you hire someone else to do them or if you buy completely new kitchen cabinets, but for the do it yourself person the cost becomes a small fraction when you roll up your sleeves and tackle the kitchen cabinet refacing and kitchen remodeling. And best of all, YOU CAN DO IT.

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Kitchen Cabinet Contents

Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Material. The materials you will need to reface your kitchen cupboards with a few extra things to make them fancier and more elegant. It's surprising how some extra trim molding will set off newly refaced cabinets and make them look custom built.

Tools for veneering

Veneering Tools. The tools you will need to apply the veneer to reface your kitchen cupboards. You can work with veneer without special tools, but some of the tools will make the job a lot easier

Begin your kitchen cabinet refacing project

Begin Your Project. The beginning steps of do it yourself kitchen cabinet refacing. If you feel intimidated by the complete job, don't look at the whole thing at once, just look at the beginning steps and after they're completed go on to the next step. Before you know it you've run out of steps and the job is done and it's time to look at the next step of your complete kitchen remodeling.

Clean kitchen cabinets for refacing

Clean Kitchen Cabinets. There's a difference between hygienic cleaning and cleaning for a do it yourself kitchen cabinet refacing project. You can't even have a light film of cooking grease that's disinfected and that you can't see on any surface to be refaced.

Strip old paint or finish for kitchen cabinet refacing

Strip the old finish or paint from your kitchen cabinets. If you're going to repaint, the old paint or finish can make a good base coat, but if you're going to reface, then you need to be down to the bare wood.

Apply new veneer

Apply the new veneer to your freshly stripped and cleaned kitchen cabinets
Veneering is as easy as putting shelf paper on a shelf with pressure sensitive veneer. Just peel the paper off of the glue on the back of the veneer and apply it to the cabinet surface. Use a veneer roller or a brayer to get a smooth, stuck tight veneer surface. See below for a link to veneer tools.

Apply veneer page 2

Apply veneer page 2.
This is the second page of information about how to apply veneer.

Trim excess veneer

Trim the veneer. Remove the excess veneer from the edges.
You need to be very careful not to split the veneer when you trim it.

Prepare veneer for finishing

Prepare the new veneer for finishing. You'll need to do some light sanding and cleaning the sanding dust with a tack cloth.

Stain and finish new kitchen cabinets

Stain and Finish your new kitchen cabinets and make them ready for the new kitchen cabinet hardware to make your job complete.
Follow the above steps and you'll have a kitchen cabinet refacing job to be proud of.