redoing a kitchen on a budget -- second-hand cabinets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We looked into refinishing our old cabinets at our previous home - it wound up being almost as expensive as an IKEA kitchen remodel. We chose IKEA, and liked it so much we went IKEA cabinets in our new home, where we had to completely gut the old kitchen.

Obviously, IKEA appeals to a certain segment of the population. Good luck, whatever you decide to do!

IKEA looks cheap.

[Anonymous]

There is a restore in alexandria, south of the beltway as well. We redid our kitchen and I love it. Well worth money for room we use every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We looked into refinishing our old cabinets at our previous home - it wound up being almost as expensive as an IKEA kitchen remodel. We chose IKEA, and liked it so much we went IKEA cabinets in our new home, where we had to completely gut the old kitchen.

Obviously, IKEA appeals to a certain segment of the population. Good luck, whatever you decide to do!

IKEA looks cheap.

that is your opinion, not fact. If YOU think it looks cheap, don't pick it for your kitchen. Let the original poster take a look and decide for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Ikea has a variety of qualities, actually. I think some of them can compete with slightly more expensive cabinets.

What Ikea really offers, though, is an opportunity to indulge in modern European style at a fraction of the price the high-concept showrooms offer. You can't get much of that at Home Depot/ Lowe's.

[Anonymous]

If you cabinets are salvageable at all try this

http://cabinets.rustoleumtransformations.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ikea has a variety of qualities, actually. I think some of them can compete with slightly more expensive cabinets.

What Ikea really offers, though, is an opportunity to indulge in modern European style at a fraction of the price the high-concept showrooms offer. You can't get much of that at Home Depot/ Lowe's.

http://onlinecatalog.ikea-usa.com/US/en/2012/Range_Brochure_Kitchen/

we used the ramsjo black-brown in our current kitchen and installed a home depot backsplash and a granite countertop to go with it. I like the dark cabinets with framing much better than their others.

In our previous townhome, we installed the Adel medium brown as it went well with other upgrades we had already made in that kitchen (mostly the flooring we'd had to install because the cheapskate previous owner hadn't bothered to put a subflooring down when she installed tile and it started to crack under our feet after just 2 years)