The Kitchen Biz Review-The Specialty of Remodeling Kitchens by Cabinet Refacing

Overview of The Kitchen Biz

Product: The Kitchen Biz
Price: $4,750.00
Seller: Edward J Roualdes
Official Website: Visit Here
Recommend: Highly Recommend!
Rating – 9.0 out of 10

Advantages of The Kitchen Biz

1. No Building Permit required.
2. Substantial cost saving to the homeowner with plenty of Profit for you.
3. Proposals are created quickly.
4. Unlimited Doors colors available.
5. New Door Styles and Colors yearly to stay current.
6. All the options of a “tear out’ remodel. Full extension soft close glides on Drawers.
7. Display cabinets. Doors with soft close concealed door hinges.
8. Completed within days not weeks with little mess.
9. Fully functional kitchen every night.
10. Limited Competition.
11. Before and After Pictures help Sell every future Project.
12. As Real Estate prices increase more Homeowners are improving their homes instead of moving and they’re looking for Value.

Refacing is the #1 Option

This is a very small kitchen. It was a total of 11 doors, no drawers. Condominiums and townhouses will have very small kitchens. Refacing is an excellent option because they don't want to pull a building permit and there is no way they can reconfigure the kitchen or change the footprint. They have to keep the cabinets exactly where they are. They just need a refresh. The vast majority of homeowners, condos or not, must keep their existing footprint. Reconfiguring the cabinets is much too costly for 90% of all homeowners. Refacing is the way to go.

Offer Pull Out Drawers

These are two simple pull out drawers behind doors. On rare occasion I've had a homeowner just want easier access to the lower cabinets. So we're not refacing but simply installing pull out drawers. We don't even remove the middle shelf. We simply attach the glides to the top of the middle shelf and install glides on the bottom shelf. I've seen some companies advertise that this is all they do, install pull out drawers.

One of Many Tricks Of The Trade

This was one of the first projects we did that involved a little remodeling along with the refacing. We moved the sink from the side of the house to the window to look out over the garden. The additional cabinet trick? We simply purchased cabinets from Home Depot for the new configuration, tossed the doors and used our doors.

The original design of many track houses of years ago has very little consideration for design. With the education of homeowners watching home improvement shows you'll find that they have a greater sense of design when refacing or reconfiguring their kitchen.

Add Color With Accessories

Most homeowners are lucky if they can remodel one kitchen in their lifetime.

This particular homeowner has refaced two kitchens. Once in their original home and once in their new retirement home. In both cases she likes a white classic shaker cabinet. She adds colors with her accessories. She decorates for Valentine's Day, the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Adding bold color with accessories is why many homeowners choose a classic white. They can't commit to a cabinet color because that's too hard to change, So they select white and add color with the accessories.

Homeowners Referrals

This project was a referral from the neighbor next door. The first neighbor got a “tear out remodel” price of 3 times our reface price. The referred neighbor #2 didn’t do any price shopping. Even though we raised the price from the first they took our price immediately.

This is a medium to large kitchen in cabinetry. The most unique thing we did on this kitchen was adding three pull out drawers to under the cook top. Usually under the cook top there is a false drawer front. If you stick your head under there on your visit you'll notice that there is room for a new drawer. You might need a little cut out to make room for the gas line but nobody minds. Homeowners love that we can add an additional large drawer below the cook top. Many times we also convert the two doors below the cook top to pull out drawers for a total of three drawers below the cook top.

This kitchen was also identical to the neighbor two doors down. It's not unusual that we do multiple houses in a neighborhood. Word gets out and homeowners want the same update done to their house.

Older Cabinets are Plenty Strong Enough

There is no before picture on this kitchen, In this neighborhood we did three kitchens the exact is same size. I could have taken the Door order form with the exact same dimensions and submitted it three  times and the accuracy would have been perfect. Many homeowners are concerned and ask if their cabinet boxes are strong enough to be kept in place and refaced. they think "a newer cabinet must be stronger than my old ones". Funny thing, the older the cabinet box is the stronger it is. Today newer cabinets are built with 1/2" particle board and are constructed very cheaply.  This kitchen went from a dark particle board cabinet to a nice Cherry wood tone.

No Building Permit Required

This was a nice little kitchen on the West side of town where the homes are built in the early 1900s. They are registered historic homes. Pulling a building permit be quite an ordeal. Back in the day carpenters built cabinets on site as they constructed the house. If we had gutted this kitchen, it would have been a much bigger mess than she had the budget for. A new countertop with a farm sink and a tile backsplash is often our normal addition. Of course they saw it on HGTV. We don't install the countertops. We hire a local company to fabricate the quartz countertops.

A different Style For Every Home

Our Service Area is full of thousand of tract houses that are 20, 30, and 40 years old. These trac houses want of a solid color white or off white kitchen cabinet door to replace the original light oak or pine doors. It's the country homes on the edge of our service area that want to retain that wood look. This was a cute little country home that was extremely dated by their boring cabinet doors. The new wood retained their country cabin look.

Simple Changes With Dramatic Results

This By simply removing the hanging cabinet over the peninsula and removing the light box we dramatically improved the overall look of this kitchen. The rest was simple refacing. Again the top drawer false front under the cook top converted to a functional drawer. It's always a very wide drawer 30 to 36 inches wide. Homeowners love that we find additional space in their drawers. The notch we create in the back of the drawer to make room for the gas line is never an issue for the homeowner.

Glass Display Cabinets

This is another example where removing certain kitchen cabinets improves the overall look of the kitchen. This particular kitchen had two garage units on each side of the range. One in the left corner. One in the right corner. Removing these added more countertop space. The upper cabinet that was being supported by a pole was removed. The third cabinet on the left was converted to display cabinet with interior LD lights.

Every homeowner would love a display cabinet. But very few will add it. Most don't want to keep the contents behind the glass neat and tiny. Nobody wants to show off the cereal boxes. When you can add a display upper it. makes for a great after photo in your collection.

More Door Styles & Colors Every Year

This was a project we got from the neighbor two doors down, three years after the first kitchen. Both wanted a new look and new countertops. The solid surface Quartz countertop is done by the local fabricator. We have nothing to do with it except supervising the scheduling, the measure and the install. Many time we’ll do the tile demo to add dollars to our overall project cost.

In this kitchen the island was enlarged a little and the rest was a complete reface with a much darker cabinet. This cabinet door is a vinyl or laminate door. Not a natural wood door. In the world of vinyl and laminate doors the color selection is increasing yearly. Door suppliers are greatly increasing the vinyl and laminate door styles and colors just as floor manufacturers are making more options of engineered flooring. Natural wood is getting harder to source and has limited color options. Homeowners are wanting a greater variety and suppliers are meeting that demand.

Same kitchen. Different Door Style. Huge Difference

These kitchens are neighbors. The one at the top is the before. They have the exact same kitchen layout yet the final result is dramatically different. In both cases all the lower doors were converted to drawers. What a difference a door style can make to the look of a kitchen.

Converting lowers to drawers greatly increases access to the lower cabinets. No longer does one have to get on their hands and knees to access thing in the back of the lower cabinet. A huge selling point. The older the homeowner the more they want and need these drawers. Converting all these doors to drawers can give the kitchen a more contemporary look. Some like that. So do not. If they don't like the contemporary look, we install pullouts behind doors to keep the traditional look.

Hide The Garbage & Be A hero

The garbage / recycle pull out to the left of the sink is a huge upgrade when possible. A homeowner is thrilled if you can hide the garbage. Garbage under the sink is not large enough and a free standing garbage can is an eye sore.

You need a lower 15” wide cabinet to accommodate the width of these two rubber made plastic bins. The front is garbage, the back is recycle. You install an 8 inch tall drawer and attach a door that opens like a drawer. The other two cabinets to the left of the garbage keep the look of a door with double drawer function.

What a Difference a Door Style Makes

This couple was tired of repainting a dated ugly door style. They wanted a current look and loved the idea of pullout drawers. They had pots and pans they hadn't used in years because of the inaccessibility of them in the lower cabinets. This kitchen had been painted three times over 25 year period. It's original color was a dark walnut stain. As you see the original cabinet doors had zero style.

This glass display cabinet is something every homeowner would like but few execute. Most homeowner choose no to do it because they cannot keep the items behind the glass neat and presentable. Nobody wants a glass display cabinet to look at the cereal Boxes. This particular kitchen had plenty of storage space so that a large portion of the upper cabinets could be converted to display cabinets. Interior cabinet  lighting was connected to the ceiling lights. This was a huge upgrade in terms of style and resale value.

The Ultimate in Dark & Ugly

This kitchen was the ultimate in dark, ugly, and dated. It had plenty of cabinets but in the wrong places. To the right of the door were a number of cabinets that were relocated to form the island. Years later, when the homeowners decided to sell the house, they were standing in line to purchase the home because of the kitchen.