Several different ways you can easily update your kitchen cabinets without buying new ones.
Take off your kitchen doors and add mirror and glass shelving
Now I can take total credit for this one, because it's mine. After we ebony stained our existing kitchen cabinets, I needed a way to add some "brightness" to my kitchen.
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| Using Mirror and Glass Shelving to update Kitchen Cabinets |
Don't let my DIY fool you, the mirror backing was inexpensive. Each piece from a glass shop was under $40. The glass shelves averaged $30 each.
And it worked, the sunlight bounces around this room now!
Paint your Kitchen Cabinets
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| Via BHG | Add Paint & Decorative Moulding |
Trimming out your cabinets using highly detailed moulding is a beautiful way to add that special touch to the workhorse of the kitchen.
Paint & Stain Kitchen Cabinets - add that personal flair
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| Via BHG | Easy Kitchen Cabinet Makeover |
Mixing of stain and paint, that is genius! How many kitchens can you say you saw that in.
Not many!
Add Moulding to Kitchen Cabinet Doors
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| BHG | Use Moulding and Paint |
Basketweave Update to Kitchen Cabinets
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| Via BHG | Add Woven Basketweave Look to Kitchen Cabinets |
If you're thinking the basket weave one would be hard to do, than you're wrong. That one makes me wonder what other types of "strips" I could use to copycat it!
Adding chalk paint to the inside of your kitchen cabinets
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| FHC | Kitchen Cabinet Makeover using Chalk Paint |
I am quickly becoming a chalk paint lover and this idea is a quick and easy way to that personal touch.
Remove the upper kitchen cabinets and use shelving
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| JWT Associates | Via Houzz.com |
Now I admit it, I have been pondering this idea for WEEKS, for one area of my kitchen.
See a shot of my kitchen below, all the uppers in this photo are what I am thinking of replacing with open shelving. But two things will need to happen first.
1. I am going to need a backsplash.
2. I am going to need to either build a unit to "house" my vent hood or buy a more modern free standing one.
So that's why the hesitation for now...
Hope you enjoyed the inspiration and found it inspiring.
See a shot of my kitchen below, all the uppers in this photo are what I am thinking of replacing with open shelving. But two things will need to happen first.
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| Holiday Kitchen Tour |
1. I am going to need a backsplash.
2. I am going to need to either build a unit to "house" my vent hood or buy a more modern free standing one.
So that's why the hesitation for now...
Hope you enjoyed the inspiration and found it inspiring.
XO,
