Cabinet style comparisons, refacing versus replacement guidance, and smart storage ideas for making the most of your kitchen.
Door style — shaker, flat-panel, raised-panel — gets most of the attention when choosing cabinets, but it’s a separate decision from overlay, which is about how the doors and drawer fronts sit relative to the cabinet box and frame underneath. Two kitchens with identical shaker doors can look and function quite differently depending on which…
Shaker, flat-panel, raised-panel, and slab cabinet doors compared — what each style actually looks like and which fits your home’s architecture.
Refacing is usually cheaper than full cabinet replacement, but the real value comparison depends on box condition, layout needs, and disruption — not just price.
Not every storage problem needs a full cabinet replacement to solve. A lot of Portland’s older housing stock — bungalows, Craftsman cottages, early-1900s duplexes — came with kitchens that were simply never built with modern storage needs in mind, and plenty of homeowners aren’t ready for (or interested in) a full remodel just to fix…
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