What To Do With Old Kitchen Cabinet Doors

An alternative to a media center you can turn your old cabinets into built in cabinetry without the high cost of custom cabinets.

What to do with old kitchen cabinet doors.

New kitchen cabinets can be pricey to purchase but using recycled cabinets from another kitchen or a recycled cabinet retailer can provide you with cabinets at a fraction of the cost of brand new ones. Do you love the look of the classic shaker style cabinet doors. What s old may be new again but those grease caked kid scratched cabinets have to go. A step by step tutorial on how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding mdf trim to the door to create a diy shaker style cabinet.

You ll be able to store so much more hiding odds and ends out of site in freshly repurposed cabinets. Add some legs to an old kitchen cabinet and some chicken wire on the doors and you have the makings of a gorgeous new wine rack. If you really wanted to be creative you could cut grooves into the shelves to give your wine bottles and individual place to lay and even add hangers at the tops of the. You may also like these 15 brilliant ways to repurpose a pile of old books.

Old kitchen cabinets recycled from somewhere else can be sanded down and restained if made of wood. How to paint kitchen cabinets with a sprayed on finish in just a few simple steps transform low cost ready made cabinets into designer statement pieces. Painting kitchen cabinets is one of the easiest ways to update your kitchen and give it a fresh look. Reface kitchen cabinets photo by david carmack.

Unique ways to upcycle old cabinet doors. If you ve ever been to a habitat for humanity restore then you know that cabinet doors are abundant and cheap. That sweet old woman you bought your house from is truly wonderful really she is especially the way she gave out homemade cookies during the holidays. Every since my trip there a few weeks back when i saw the row after row with stack after stack of brand new cabinet doors i ve been trying to think of projects that can be made with cabinet doors.

I almost saved my old doors in the kitchen but that were really that bad and totally uninteresting. Our dump has a store and we can usually pick up old doors for a few bucks. You can pick up a couple for around 10 or less which gives you the start to some amazing repurposing projects. I love this repurposed kitchen cabinet idea.

Even if you re not planning to redo your kitchen cabinets you can do any of these diy cabinet door projects. Thrift or bargain stores and even some home improvement stores sell old cabinet doors pretty cheap.