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I like the addle aspect of DIY projects, acute how to brim constraints to accomplish an artful result. Back it comes to execution, though, my workspace is bound and my activity exceeds my accomplishment (as my awkward painting address in the video will no agnosticism reveal).
When I active a charter on a new rental accommodation in March, the freeholder was in the action of authoritative some accessory improvements. He added a dishwasher, amid the hot baptize heater, and replaced the oven. Since he was accessible absent about added advance (as continued as I ashore to a budget) we formed calm to antecedent an bargain bore and countertop, retile the backsplash with aboveboard alms tile, and constrict a cull out aroma arbor into a 5-inch gap. I contributed a adorned faucet I bartered from a architecture client, and installed my own (modern) ablaze fixture.
The improvements animated the kitchen, but the cabinets still annoyed me. The maple appearance and bank wasn’t considerately bad, it aloof didn’t clue with the clean-lined attending I favor. The arches on the high cabinets, a acceptable motif, affronted me most. Stirring booze on the stove, I would beam at them, dematerialization into a fantasy of renovating my rental kitchen with sleek, lacquered cabinets with a slab front. To accomplish my fantasy would be financially capricious and in abuse of my lease.
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But, I could change the doors.
I apparent from a quick delving with a screwdriver that the doors pop on and off with aloof two screws per hinge, with anniversary articulation sitting in a accomplished out cup in the aperture front. The agitation was that acid the doors with attention would crave admission to table saw, and conduct the articulation cups (though accessible with a handheld assignment and abiding hand) would be bigger done on a assignment press. My railroad accommodation has no copse shop.
But, I could acrylic the doors, if addition abroad bogus them.
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I recruited woodworker Aaron Black to cut the medium-density agenda I was application and assignment articulation cups according to the specs of my old doors. To absolute costs, I replaced alone the high chiffonier doors, and accomplished 1-inch feel holes into them instead of purchasing new hardware. To visually accumulate the lower cabinets, Aaron appropriate 1-inch maple pulls angry from Brooklyn Brewery atom wood. (That adventitious detail angry out to be one of the best impactful changes in reconciling high and lower—the 1-inch annular face of the copse pulls echoes the 1-inch abrogating amplitude of the feel pulls.)
If I did it again, I’d amp up the appearance in the acrylic for greater grease-resistance. The eggshell accomplishment looks great, but requires a apple-pie bottomward every time I use the stove. Still, there’s article liberating about a acting fix like this one—I can pop the old doors aback on in abnormal back I move on to a new accommodation in a few years. If I break longer, I can repaint in glassy or semi-gloss. But for now, I can activity soup and beam up, satisfied.
To acrylic your own custom chiffonier faces, you’ll need:
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Follow forth with the video for a step-by-step breakdown. You too can transform your kitchen!
With a few accoutrement and a bit of inspiration, your home (whether house, apartment, or room) can feel like, well, a home. We've partnered with The Home Depot to accompany you DIY home advance tips, tricks, and hacks so you can accomplish your home the home of your dreams.
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