If the kitchen is a culinary theater, then the cabinets are the stagehands. They contain the spices, tools, and cookware that’s required to carry out the show. But after a grueling schedule of back-to ...

Q: My pickled maple kitchen cabinets are about 30 years old, and the doors are badly in need of refinishing. What is the best approach? Bowie A: Whether you call it pickling, whitewashing or staining ...

Refinishing kitchen cabinets may seem like a big project, but the process is actually surprisingly simple. Here’s what you can expect. Picking between refinishing and replacing kitchen cabinets should ...

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The kitchen is no doubt the heart of the home—but it’s so valuable you might want to start thinking of it as a bank vault. The cost to remodel a kitchen starts at about $12,000 and the average project ...

Time, it seems, is relative. The speed of its passing changes from person to person, task to task, year to year. How else can you explain that, for a 65-year-old like me, the last 45 years have ...

Refinishing cabinets is an easy way to upgrade your kitchen and add value to your home. If your current cabinets need a facelift, this HomeAdvisor Home Hack is for you. 1.Remove the doors from your ...

This week we dig deep into refinishing kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities. If your budget is too tight to replace cabinets, know that refinishing them can be about 25% to 30% less expensive. That ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mr. Fix It Lou Manfredini joins WGN Morning ...

So often the desire for a home improvement comes out of the ether. You don’t even realize you’re dissatisfied with your kitchen, then you see a spread in a magazine, or you walk through a model home, ...

Joni Lay chose to replace the cabinets in her 1948 house in Atlanta. 'Doing otherwise would have put a Band-Aid on a bigger problem,' she said. The particle board cabinets were crumbling, and the ...

Last month, my family moved into our new home — a smoky blue single family cape, circa 1971, with lots of windows and a great backyard. What we also got with our three-bedroom abode was a shabby ...