Karen and Tom have a great townhome in Willowbrook. It was beautifully decorated with a lot of Craftsman style furnishings and fixtures. The kitchen, however, needed help. When the home was built it had basic, dark oak cabinets. The original owner did what many people do – painted the cabinets white. As usual, this wasn’t […]
cherry, craftsman, mission, painting oak, willowbrook“Can we take out the soffits and install 42″ wall cabinets?”, is a question I get asked frequently. The answer , of course, is ‘yes’. After all, anything is possible with enough time and money. But the real question is, is it worth it? Soffits, if you’re not familiar, are the 12″ drywall boxes between […]
kitchen soffitsThis Naperville home was custom built around 2000. According to the owners, Barbara and Michael, by the time they got to choosing the kitchen cabinets and counters, “decision fatigue” started to set in and with cost overruns elsewhere, they decided to install a basic kitchen and wait a few years before before remodeling the kitchen […]
backsplash, glaze, granite, maple, Naperville kitchen remodeling, naperville refacingBurr Ridge, IL Don and Marianne were tired of the dark oak cabinetry in their kitchen and wanted to update and brighten the look. Marianne laughed when she told me about her meeting with the “high end” remodeling company.The well-dressed designer sat down with a beautiful, glossy portfolio and explained, “just so we aren’t wasting […]
burr ridge, cabinet refacing, hinsdaleThis was a great older home that had been painstakingly restored in Downers Grove, IL. It was actually a Sears home that dated to around 1925. The kitchen had been redone sometime in the early nineties to dark oak cabinets with arched raised panels. Black granite was installed about 5 years ago. The granite looked […]
appliance garage, cabinet refacing downers grove, convert cabinets to drawers, farmhouse cabinetsI’ve seen it in hundreds of kitchens – people get rid of their old laminate counters and install beautiful, new granite. The counters look wonderful, but now the old oak cabinets they’re resting on look even worse by comparison. Now what? Can the granite be removed and reinstalled on new cabinets? With a few exceptions, […]
Both the Mission and Shaker cabinet styles date back many years. There’s a timeless appeal to the simplicity of both styles. The element that both have in common when it comes to cabinet doors is a square frame and a flat, recessed panel. Maple is the classic wood used in a Shaker cabinet, the lines […]
craftsman, mission, shaker“The kitchen layout is fine, I just wish we had taller wall cabinets” is a concern I often hear when I’m consulting with a client. We’ve found 2 ways to help with this situation without having to go through the headache and expense of a full kitchen tearout. Let me back up a bit […]
So it’s probably a question that you really want to know, and getting a straight answer isn’t easy. “How much does cabinet refacing cost?” (and how does it compare to the cost of new cabinets?). Obviously it’s not possible to give an exact price without knowing details, but let me give you some guidelines. Kitchen […]
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This was a kitchen cabinet refacing project we did in Geneva. The owners of this beautiful home in Geneva wanted a completely new look and feel for their kitchen. With a very active household, doing a complete tearout and replacement would have thrown everything into turmoil for weeks. We refaced the exsiting cabinets with solid […]
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