Key Points Swap out old hardware, paint cabinets, or cover them with contact paper for quick, affordable updates.Add glass inserts, remove doors, or replace cabinets with floating shelves for a fresh, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It's my first time refinishing cabinets. I know IKEA probably sells cabinet doors for cheap, but I want to learn and I think the wood underneath the nasty ass paint is pretty solid oak.<BR><BR>Anyway, ...

Q I have inherited a cottage that is 100 years old. The kitchen was redone around 40 years ago with knotty pine cupboards. After 40 years, they are in bad shape, with cooking grease, etc., on the ...

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Jamie and Nancy Pritchard discovered a niche for their refinishing business after spraying lacquer on chairs at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Chesterfield County. "We thought to ourselves 'Why can't we ...