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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 03:40 |
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Q:
We currently have a bank of cabinets that separate the kitchen from the dining room. This unit is rougly 6' long by 30" deep, and have cabinets on both sides (18" deep on one side and 12" deep on the other). We are removing these cabinets during our upcoming remodel. We are also putting a stair case, with a half wall, to the basement in the kitchen. Along the half wall, we are planning for a future set of cabinets (can't afford to put them in right now). The future cabs will be 10' long by 13.5" deep.
We had planned on leaving the new cabinet space empty, and giving the old cabinets to the local Second Use. I started to think that maybe I could rebuild the cabinets to fill part of the new cabinet area at least temporarily. They would certainly match the remaining cabinets. This would require removing the top (corian-like stuff that I have cut before), cutting apart the two sides, removing 4.5" from the deeper side, and replacing the salvaged "back" (what was the separator between the two sides).
This would not fill the entire 10', but it would give us cabinets for now. It is possible I could even fill the rest of the area with the doors from the 12" side, and some facing from the cook-top enclosure that we are also losing.
Has anyone ever done anything like this before? Am I crazy? I figure, what have I got to lose? I am going to chuck the cabinets anyway. A:
"We had planned on leaving the new cabinet space empty, and giving the old cabinets to the local Second Use." This is the way to go. Get rid of existing cabinets and get new to replace. If budget is an issue, there are lower cost cabinets and counters available. Think in terms of resale. You will not be able to match existing cabinets or counters. Every four years or so, everything changes. Think in terms of resale. |
