Restoring furniture facades is the best way to upgrade your furniture. Indeed, often furniture is able to serve us for many years to come thanks to the durable and high-quality materials that were used in the manufacture, but due to wear and intensive use, the furniture facades acquire a battered appearance.
Why restore furniture when you can buy a new one?
From the point of view of rationality, furniture of medium and high quality is subject to updating, while products from materials of low grade are better to really completely replace with new ones.
Restoration, repair of facades, replacement of fittings are needed in the case when similar finished furniture will be several times more expensive than the costs that you can do when updating a headset. If the frames are well preserved, while externally the furniture needs to be refreshed, and worn or outdated mechanisms require replacement, restoration will be the best solution.
Restorers occupy a special category of kitchen furniture, because according to the price criterion it differs from other cabinet products. The sum of the costs for the manufacture of frames, facades, the costs of functional fittings - all this requires decent expenses from the family budget. A new kitchen can be obtained with a good update of the old one, especially if it is made of solid wood. In this case, restoration of the facades can completely change the appearance of the kitchen. Enamel in almost any color, new tinting, varnishing of facades, replacement of handles - the kitchen can be completely transformed, and the family budget will not incur significant costs.
In which cases restoration of facades is required
After several years of decent operation of kitchen furniture, many housewives dream of somehow updating their main “office”. But is it always worth changing the entire headset or facades, or can you only bring out the external gloss?
If your kitchen with facades made of wood or wood veneer has already served more than 10 years, but you cannot be called a lover of retro furniture and aged cabinets, then most likely you will want to update the headsets.
Restoring facades from veneer or solid wood will help not only to recreate the original beauty of the furniture, but also to refresh the entire room. If you turn to professionals in your field for help, and at the same time start repairing the premises, then in just a couple of weeks you can get almost a new kitchen.
How is the restoration of kitchen facades in professional workshops?
To restore the kitchen, it is enough to contact the professionals by phone and order a consultant with a home visit. At the meeting, experts will inspect the furniture and offer various options based on the basic qualities of the furniture. There are many options for restoration, and it all depends on what you want to get as a result: an updated old kitchen or new style and color.
In the process of measuring and inspecting furniture, it often turns out that not only the restoration of facades is needed. Handles, guides, closers and other mechanisms require replacement. At the same time, the main stimulus for the owners is the desire to make their life more convenient: old loops, although they work, but without closers, today they want to replace with new ones with closers; the sliding mechanisms in the rickety boxes, which were under a heavy load during operation, also need to be completely replaced. Thanks to their experience and knowledge of the intricacies of furniture production, specialists in restoration companies will be able to offer the best solutions for replacing failed parts.
As a rule, restoration of kitchen facades is carried out in workshops, so they are removed and taken away. The rest of the repair is carried out at home. The process, depending on the complexity, lasts from one week to a month.
Replacement of fittings during the restoration of facades
New mechanisms in the kitchen will make furniture more comfortable and modern. Smooth closing of the leaves will extend the life of the frames, and silent mechanisms will allow the hostess to feel comfortable in the kitchen.
If it is necessary to replace accessories, the advantages of professional restoration become obvious, because specialists will be able to assess the condition of the mechanisms, as well as repair or replace some parts. In this case, it will not be necessary to run around the shops and construction markets in search of the necessary mechanisms, as well as independently mount complex modern products of functional accessories.
For example, hinges with closers have a deeper bowl for attaching to the facade, and not everyone can make a hole of the required size at home. New sliding systems require competent installation so that the facades of the drawers are not rubbed against each other then, the installation must be accurate to millimeters. Qualitatively install a new functional hardware can only master assemblers.
Types and methods of restoration of kitchen facades
For kitchen furniture, the restoration process involves the three most relevant methods:
- painting;
- pasting with films;
- varnishing.
Painting and varnishing are most suitable if restoration of facades from solid wood or MDF is needed. At the same time, enamel coating will help to radically change the color of the kitchen, however, you need to understand that such restoration can be of good quality only if there is a good outer layer of wood or veneer, as well as with professional preparation of the surface for painting.
Pasting with films is a budget option for chipboard facades, PVC frame facades , the coating of which has peeled or peeled off. Smooth facades can be glued at home without the involvement of professionals, but frame facades with milling, and even more so with carved trim and panel, it is better to paste over in furniture restoration workshops.
Varnishing is a good option for updating furniture, if you need a slight restoration of the facades.
For example, if the kitchen facades were originally made in tinted without varnish, at the same time they lost their original attractiveness and minor defects appeared on them - varnishing will be an excellent option that will help return the kitchen to the look of new furniture.
Replacing the interior of solid facades
It is possible to update the kitchen furniture in the classical style, the doors of which are made of solid wood or frame MDF, by resorting to replacing the inside of the facade (panel). Following new trends in the style of the premises, glass in any variation can be considered an ideal option for replacing the central part of the facade: stained-glass windows, sandblasting, glass with spros. Artificial rattan inserts are also always relevant.
If classic furniture has lost its aesthetics or you want to make it more modern, pay attention to the possibility of replacing the panel with more sophisticated options. This is especially true of upper cabinets with glass, which are relevant in new modern kitchens.
Partial or complete replacement of facades
There is also a great option in cases where the restoration of facades is impossible. If the kitchen frames are made of good reliable material and their appearance remains acceptable for operation, you can completely replace the old kitchen facades with new ones. To determine whether they need restoration or it is better to completely update them, a consultation with the master is necessary.
It sometimes happens that during operation one or more kitchen doors are damaged, while all the other facades have a good appearance and are suitable for further use. In this case, you can also contact the restoration workshop, while remembering that, along with the facades, you can also update the hardware that has failed.