Is Resurfacing Your Kitchen Cabinets Worth it?

When considering a kitchen remodel, the depth of your remodel can have a profound impact on the cost. While you could completely rebuild your cabinetry, refacing your kitchen cabinets is a far more efficient alternative. If you are already happy with the layout of your kitchen, cabinet resurfacing can allow you to reinvent the color, style, and even the apparent material of your cabinets at a fraction of the cost and construction time.

Is resurfacing your kitchen cabinets worth it? It depends on your goal and your budget. Edesia Kitchen & Bath Studio specializes in kitchen rebuilds that suit your needs. We can help you take a deep dive into the value of resurfacing and how to determine if this is a good investment for your kitchen remodeling plans.  

What Is Cabinet Refacing?

Cabinet refacing is the rebuilding of the front veneer, doors, drawers, and hardware of your kitchen cabinets. The process replaces only the visible front-facing elements of your cabinets, while leaving the structure in place. Cabinet refacing changes the color, material, and style of your cabinets without a full rebuild.

Kitchen cabinets are typically built from sturdy hardboard. The boxes and shelves create storage space that is also strong enough to hold up a stone countertop. Rebuilding your cabinetry (and inevitably replacing the countertop) is often the single most expensive part of remodeling a kitchen. But you don't have to rebuild the cabinets to appear to have all-new cabinets.

If you like the layout but want to change the style, cabinet refacing is the ideal answer.

Benefits of Refacing Kitchen Cabinets

There are many benefits to refacing your kitchen cabinets, which is why it's a popular choice for homeowners who want a new look without a full rebuild. You can easily modernize or otherwise transform your kitchen in just a few days.

Fast and Efficient

Cabinet refacing takes much less time than a full remodel. Your renovation team will measure and create the new cabinet facing in the woodshop. Then it will only take a few days of work in your home. The team will remove the cabinet doors, drawer fronts, and original veneers, then install the replacements in your chosen material and style by bonding the new veneers to the hardboard structure and re-attaching new cabinet doors and drawer fronts.

Where a rebuild will take up to six weeks, refacing takes approximately one week or less to complete.

Affordable Renovation Method

Compared to tearing out your entire cabinetry and rebuilding from scratch, cabinet refacing costs only a fraction of the amount. If you want to remodel your kitchen without great cost or disruption, cabinet refacing is a great choice.

Reinvent Your Kitchen Style

Want to transform your retro kitchen into a modern minimalist masterpiece? Want to go from post-modern to cozy cottage? Always dreamed of a craftsman kitchen? Refacing your cabinets can transform those key details that define a kitchen's style without actually rebuilding the structure of your kitchen.

The unique combination of veneers and cabinet doors makes the style, and refacing is the perfect way to update your kitchen's inherent style fully.

Restore Scuffed and Chipped Cabinet Facing

Kitchens have seen a lot of wear and tear over the years. If you have an old yet sturdy kitchen with scuffed and scratched cabinets, you don't need to tear them out. They just need a new face for a fresh new appearance.

The shelves are likely still in great condition, perhaps benefitted by a fresh coat of paint or shelf liners. It's only the cabinet facing that takes the most abuse and benefits from the occasional replacement.

Add-On Renovations

Lastly, cabinet refacing pairs perfectly with additional renovations. Resurfacing your kitchen with a new backsplash, a new sink installation, and other projects are great ways to upgrade the look and feel of your kitchen without changing the bones. You can maintain a modest renovation budget while making the best possible set of visual and functional improvements. 

Transform Your Kitchen with Cabinet Refacing

At Edesia Kitchen & Bath Studio, we can tailor your kitchen renovation to your exact budget and aethetic style. If you love the placement of your cabinets but don't love the look, refacing them is a great way to give your cabinets a whole new life. Explore this and other practical renovation possibilities as you reinvent your kitchen. Contact us today.