Kitchens & Bathrooms

One of the positive aspects of kitchen renovations is that there is certainly no lack of choice when it comes to your options. You could simply make a few slight improvements to tidy your kitchen up or go all out and have cabinet makers design and install a completely new kitchen design, including worktops and the latest appliances that you may have seen in other kitchens or showrooms.

A choice that many homeowners often mull over is whether to have new kitchen cabinets or have their existing cabinets refaced to give them a new and fresh appearance. If you are wondering which is right for you, that question will be answered based on many things, such as the condition of your existing kitchen cabinets and your budget.

In truth, there are advantages and disadvantages to either replacing or refacing your kitchen cabinets, so we thought it would be useful if we helped you understand what they were. As such, we have outlined below the pros and cons of refacing or replacing kitchen cabinets. We hope it helps.

If you are renovating your kitchen, it is most likely because you were dissatisfied with the look of it. Older kitchens and kitchen cabinets were rarely designed with aesthetics in mind. In fact, most were built from the same old design that was considered good enough for what was essentially a work room. These days that is no longer good enough.

Now that open floor plans are so popular it means all the living areas are open and merge into each other. You can see the kitchen from the living room and sometimes from the front door, which means it has to look just as good as the rest of the living area does. When visitors come to your home, they can see the kitchen from the living or lounge room and can sit there comfortably and chat to their hostess while she sees to the dinner.