RENOVATION – repaint, cover, customize… There are many options to give new life to your kitchen furniture on a budget!
Do you want to transform your kitchen but don’t have the budget to tear everything down or change all the furniture?
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Don’t worry, after choosing from our storage tips for your kitchen, you can put some effort into your cabinets or do a few small projects.
Just change the handles of your furniture
Instead of investing in new furniture, you can simply change the handles of the cabinets and drawers.
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“For less than 5 euros per handle, we have different styles,” explains interior designer Laura Benitta. Chrome handles, porcelain, industrial style, porcelain for a vintage touch…
“You can also replace the handles with leather straps. It’s on trend,” advises Laura Benitta.
In this Provençal kitchen, the old handles were replaced with more modern models:
This Provençal kitchen has been completely redesigned. © Anaïs e Clément
Repainted white furniture, new handles, and baseboards under the cabinets, the result is striking. © Anaïs e Clément
read also before/after: A redesigned Provençal kitchen in blue and white Another option, in a more DIY and reclaimed spirit, is to swap wooden handles for copper pipes, as below:
In this kitchen, the round handles have been replaced with copper tubes. © Maxine
© The style is definitely industrial! Maxine
Cover the facades with stickers
Another economical solution is custom-cut stickers to cover your doors. Again, all colors and material effects are available, from wood imitation to metallic adhesive.
The lacquered doors have been covered with a wood effect sticker. © Castorama
Cover old kitchen furniture with a medium panel
“For rustic furniture with moldings, you can cover them with a custom medium panel,” recommends Alexia Rhodier, interior decorator at Sweet Home Staging.
Just glue or nail this medium panel onto the frame that goes around the door. This way, you get a smooth and more modern surface. It’s up to you to leave it raw or repaint it.
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If you are ready to tackle some small projects, repainting your kitchen furniture guarantees a completely transformed space!
In this kitchen, the furniture is painted gray. © Jean-Luc Lagane
© A much more modern color! Jean-Luc Lagane
read also before/after: a modern kitchen in red and gray For painted wood and melamine, the procedure is the same: “We sand with sandpaper, clean well with Saint Marc detergent, and apply two coats of multimedia resin-based paint,” explains Christophe Laurent, head of the paint department at the Castorama store in Dunkirk.
Only the inside of the doors of this cabinet has been painted white, to make it stand out even more. © Deconome.com
Replace the doors of your kitchen furniture
And why not change the doors? This is what architect Agathe Molisset, a consultant in eco-construction and sustainable decoration at the Origami agency, chose to do. She only changed the blue doors, selecting several wood colors for a very successful patchwork effect.
The kitchen before. © Origami
The kitchen with the new cabinet doors. © Origami
“The most expensive part of a kitchen cabinet is not the cabinet itself, but the door. It costs between 30 and 50 euros, so if we have a dozen to change, it adds up quickly,” explains Alexia Rhodier.
Another limitation: “If you have a kitchen cabinet that is more than ten years old, it will be difficult to find new doors,” adds the interior designer.
In fact, in the meantime, standards have changed. Manufacturers have standardized their measurements at the European level and adopted even numbers (40, 60, 80, 100… cm wide), whereas previously they were odd.
Of course, you can always have them custom-made by a craftsman!
To redesign your kitchen, you can also repaint or cover your sketches, inspired by the latest trends. Or why not change the countertop? So, without touching your furniture, you will see it in a different light!
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