What Can You Do With Old Kitchen Cabinet Doors

If you will have guests in your house sometime soon you probably still have time to make a major home upgrade in the form of replacement doors.

What can you do with old kitchen cabinet doors.

Take that old cabinet door and use it to hold mason jar vases. This is great for entryways too. Accent doors can be louvered glass mullion chalkboard and sheet metal. These photo holders started as cabinet doors.

Secure into place with finishing nails. I love the idea of lining them all up down a hallway gallery wall. You could even put a few cabinets together to make a longer console table if you have the space. Cabinet doors made into serving trays from crafty nest left and pumpkin pie crafts right.

New kitchen cabinets can be pricey to purchase but using recycled cabinets from another kitchen or a recycled cabinet retailer can provide you with cabinets at a fraction of the cost of brand new ones. Old kitchen cabinets recycled from somewhere else can be sanded down and restained if made of wood. Turn old thrifted cabinet doors into a command center or art station with dry erase paint cork and chalkboard paint. For little hands hooks are easier than hangers and this coat hook hanger is a simple addition to a kid s room.

Turn a cabinet door into a serving tray. Commitment renovating a whole room can take weeks and cause a huge mess but replacing just the cabinet doors is quick and causes hardly any disruption to your home. Another option for replacing your kitchen cabinets is to remove cabinet doors altogether for an open shelving design embellished with decorative brackets and molding. Pin it you can take an old base kitchen cabinet and turn it into a lovely console table for the hallway.

Use liquid nails or wood glue to apply strips around the cabinet door. Then i applied a high quality latex enamel paint with a small 3 8 nap roller. As long as the frames and doors are structurally sound you can clean them up and brush on a fresh coat of paint and within a weekend take that kitchen from dreary to sunny. For full step by step instructions shopping list and tools list see how to paint kitchen cabinets.

Cut 1 4 mdf into 3 or 2 strips. They serve well for reinforcing an existing design style and adding a little flair to your kitchen. To finish the cabinets doors i simply applied a coat of general latex primer then lightly sanded with 220 grit sandpaper once it was dry. Turn a cabinet door into a chalkboard.

I used three coats of paint to get good coverage and sanded between each coat. Cabinet door chalk board from lolly jane left and life in the fun lane right.