French Kitchen

We helped her take her look from a rather contemporary, masculine, dark kitchen to one that was bright, light and beautiful.

Key things that were wrong with the space before:  The floors and the cabinets were almost the same color, so you could barely tell where one started and the other ended.  This is a straight up violation of one of the primary rules in design–the need for contrasting layers.  Without contrast, this space felt depressing!

Doesn’t this now look like an extremely high end kitchen?  Well, we helped her manage to create the new look for under $45,000 even with all new counters and a new backsplash.  Check out the details below to see how we did it on a budget.

Refacing all starts with the initial picking of the ‘look’ and finding a great company to do the work.   We found our refacing resource while doing window treatments at a client’s home who had just had her kitchen refaced.  Nicole was so impressed by the new look that she snagged the company’s name and held it tight!

Next on this list is choosing the door style and hardware; in Susan’s case, solid doors weren’t the only thing involved as we recommended she change some of the cabinet doors to glass.  We happened to also help this client with selecting and sourcing new granite, display and undercabinet lighting resources, as well as backsplash selection and related installation.

After those decisions are made, it’s then off to the races with the cabinet refacing company!   They remove all the old doors/ drawers, sand down the exterior of the cabinet boxes, adhere a laminate that perfectly matches the new cabinet door color on every surface, and then route out the openings for every opening.  The new doors/drawers and all new crown molding is then added.