I had a kitchen installed by a quality kitchen company. The cabinets themselves are strong and good quality, but within ten years, some of the cabinet door covers were peeling off at the edges. However, life was too busy for me to follow up, and it took another few years — when my kitchen started to look really bad, some covers completely off, others chipped and broken — for me to call the company and complain that they should have lasted longer. Most of the damage was not caused by water or steam, just age.
The company explained that the factory they had used during the time period I had gotten my kitchen had done a bad job ironing the covers onto the doors, and they had now switched to a different company. Although my ten-year guarantee had expired, they would give me a “great” quote to replace all my cabinet doors to make up for it.
The quote was around $1,500, which is not an expense we can take on at the moment. I looked into ordering custom-made kitchen cabinet doors from less costly companies, but I’m afraid I’ll have the same problems, and I don’t know which company to trust. It also comes with a lot of work on our part.
With some of my cupboard doors stripped of their covers, and an ugly exposed greenish/brownish wood look underneath, I’m getting desperate, apart from the fact that they’re probably being ruined by the moisture in the kitchen without their veneers on. I’ve begun to consider spray-painting the exposed doors with matching glossy paint, to protect them and make them look nicer, with the idea of doing the same to all the door veneers that are still on. I’ve never heard of anyone doing this — is it something to consider? Are there any other ideas out there to cover these exposed cabinet doors?
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