Kitchen Makeovers: Before and After
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New Kitchen Cabinet Handles – Quick Makeover Potential!
Many people are frustrated with their out of date kitchen cabinets. The prospect of purchasing new kitchen cabinets can be an expensive and an intimidating thought. However, it is possible to completely update a kitchen’s look by changing the kitchen cabinet handles and knobs. New kitchen cabinet handles can really change the entire look. Adding discount cabinet hardware can be the difference between a bland cabinet and one that looks as if it costs a lot more.
There are endless options available. You can go with one of several popular brushed metal looks, and go from knobs to pulls. There are many different styles of kitchen cabinet pulls that can be placed either on the cabinet door or drawer.
You can do something different by adding a natural wood handle. Not many people have a wood pull, but they are available. You can get a pull that is colored natural oak color pull that blends in with the cabinet door or drawer. This is very original and can be a really unique look. The cabinet door almost looks like one solid piece of wood.
If you’re trying to change the look of a kitchen that’s used a lot by kids, you can add more color by using acrylic kitchen cabinet handles and pulls that accent the cabinet doors and drawers very well. There is even hardware that is themed with cartoon characters. You don’t need to worry if your children are hard on this hardware, as it’s durable and perfect for a kid-focused kitchen.
Another option is a bail pull. This type of pull looks similar to a front door knocker and can be very attractive for kitchen cabinet pulls. This look can be great in a darker finish of metal, like oil rubbed bronze, and also works well with a darker wood finish.
If you’re looking on more of an antique style there are many other finishes and styles of pulls and knobs that you can get. You can refinish the cabinet surface to a darker color wood grain, and add a more dramatic effect with the antique hardware.
If you want to go with a more contemporary feeling you can choose a lighter finish of wood with a handle that has a more squared-off edge that looks cleaner. It’s also a very modern look to have a full length pull, often in stainless steel which can match your stainless steel appliance pulls.
You can also change out other kitchen cabinet hardware apart from handles, such as the hinges. There are endless options with hinges as well, and you can change the look significantly by adding new ones. If you currently have a standard offset hinge on your cabinet door, consider hinges that are hidden inside the cabinet and don’t show when the door is closed, giving the cabinet a cleaner more modern look. Or, you could keep the visible hinges but update them by changing them to match the material of your new cabinet pulls so all your kitchen cabinet hardware coordinates.
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Kitchen Before and After pics from petit hiboux
I rather like the buttery yellow cabinet color myself, but petit hiboux is right that color just doesn’t go with the newer bright colors in the other rooms.
In the after shot – the cabinets have been painted white, the copper-colored hinges have been stripped back to the underlying pewter color, and the walls are bright blue. All good, but now the harvest gold fridge sticks out like a sore thumb and it’s hard to know what you could do with the spotty tile. Tile over it would probably be the best bet, if it’s solidly attached to the wall.
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Kitchen Cabinet Makeover examples
I’ve been wandering through the many kitchen makeover videos online, looking at what other people have done to their existing kitchen cabinets, since I don’t plan on ripping my perfectly serviceable (if ugly) cabinets out.
The kitchen cabinets in this video are very similar to mine – face frames with flat slab doors. These people painted the frames black, then glued pale birch veneer onto the door fronts and varnished. Looks great, though I would probably go with a light color for the frames instead of black. They also did a lot of other work but left some old countertops in place. Given that counters are one of the simplest things to change, that seems a bit odd, but maybe they have Stage II in mind!
Next, a low budget makeover on a kitchen that was really pretty good to start with. They changed the wall color from dark green to a light color, changed the faucet and the light fixtures, and the cabinet pulls, and bingo – what a difference!
Finally… well, to me, this is a “what not to do” makeover. Bright red floor, bright red door centers on white cabinets, bright red tabletop, and far, far too much fruity wallpaper. The final straw is the ugliest chandelier in the world over the sink. I wonder how long the homeowners kept it like this?
I’ll just have to remember to take video of mine when the time comes, eh. Still working on the bathroom right now though, sanding drywall mud <cough>.
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