Cabinet Refacing Done in Maple and Antique White
This Customer elected to reface the existing Oak raised panel kitchen cabinets in this classic East Vancouver 100 year old Heritage home. New cabinets were not an option as the kitchen floor had been tiled in Italian antique ceramic tiles and the lower base cabinets already had granite countertops.
Prior to refacing, a few changes were made. First, a 5-sided corner upper cabinet was removed where a peninsula once extended over the lower-peninsula cabinets. This was then replaced with a custom sized conventional cabinet to match the dimensions of the adjacent wall cabinets.
Then a new bank of custom sized lower cabinets was installed below the kitchen window that overlooks the outside deck. One side was fitted with new 15” deep pot drawers, constructed of solid dovetailed Maple with Blum full extension SoftClose hardware. The other side of this cabinet bank was left as simple open shelving for cook books, etc. To finish this off, the cabinet was crowned with a custom solid Cherry butcher-block countertop for special accent.
The kitchen refacing consisted of an Antique White (Featherdown) solid color of veneer over the existing cabinets while the new cabinets were faced in the same way.
The new doors chosen were a new “Designer Series” of Shaker style Maple door featuring a 3” framework and a unique “curved-bevel” of the horizontal components of the door construction – again in the Featherdown solid color.
The large drawer fronts for the new cabinets below the window matched the doors, while all remaining drawer fronts (smaller variety) were in a simple slab look of painted Maple.
All new doors were fitted with modern Blum hidden hinges which included the SoftClose feature.
As the finishing touch, Amerock Stainless bar-style handles were implemented to adorn all cabinet openings while a new tile backsplash was added to give the look of a new and modern ‘subway glass’ detail.