juneplum888
Nov 2nd, 2009, 11:05 AM
The background story:
I am refacing my 80s style kitchen with custom made cabinet doors - which is a fraction of the cost of redoing the entire kitchen cabient.. will post before and afters when its done! My set of 4 kitchen drawers, however, is old, and the drawers are running on old, sticky tracks; I wanted to replace the drawers but my kitchen guy is quoting me $150/drawer + insist on building a custom cabinet for $250 - which brings the total for that drawer to $850! A bit out of my price range. The cabinet/drawers are 21 inches wide.
I had a brainwave and thought that I could buy a standard sized kitchen cabinet base + drawers i.e. IKEA and then he could just reface my new cabinet. The base + drawers (without drawer fronts) will cost $190 at Ikea, and on top of that, I think the IKEA kitchen drawers are pretty good quality. I'm just concerned that it might look 'mismatched' despite it being refaced like the rest of my kitchen.
Does anybody have a similar situation or experience with this? Is this a good idea and will this work out??
Last point: The IKEA kitchen 4-drawer cabinets come in 18in or 24in .. no 21in size. So, I would probably get the 18in one and get my kitchen guy to build a 3 in panel to make up the difference in width.
renovations .. *sigh!*
any help or advice would be appreciated... !
I am refacing my 80s style kitchen with custom made cabinet doors - which is a fraction of the cost of redoing the entire kitchen cabient.. will post before and afters when its done! My set of 4 kitchen drawers, however, is old, and the drawers are running on old, sticky tracks; I wanted to replace the drawers but my kitchen guy is quoting me $150/drawer + insist on building a custom cabinet for $250 - which brings the total for that drawer to $850! A bit out of my price range. The cabinet/drawers are 21 inches wide.
I had a brainwave and thought that I could buy a standard sized kitchen cabinet base + drawers i.e. IKEA and then he could just reface my new cabinet. The base + drawers (without drawer fronts) will cost $190 at Ikea, and on top of that, I think the IKEA kitchen drawers are pretty good quality. I'm just concerned that it might look 'mismatched' despite it being refaced like the rest of my kitchen.
Does anybody have a similar situation or experience with this? Is this a good idea and will this work out??
Last point: The IKEA kitchen 4-drawer cabinets come in 18in or 24in .. no 21in size. So, I would probably get the 18in one and get my kitchen guy to build a 3 in panel to make up the difference in width.
renovations .. *sigh!*
any help or advice would be appreciated... !