Kitchen Concepts NW, LLC

Re-facing or new cabinets?

When remodeling your kitchen one of the most common questions asked is should I re-face my cabinets or replace my cabinets?

This is a very good question. I always tell my customers it depends on what needs to be done.

First of all lets give a definition of Refacing your cabinets. Refacing means replacing all of the doors and drawer fronts with new doors and drawer fronts. Covering up all of the exteriors of the cabinets with wood veneer or laminate that matches the doors. Re-facing is approximately 70% of the cost of new cabinets, as you are replacing the most expensive part, the doors and drawer fronts. You do not normally rebuild the drawers or change the layout of the cabinets as it increases the cost almost to the price of all new cabinets.

If they have very good cabinets and the drawers work good and they don’t need a counter top then they might be a re-facing candidate.

If the cabinets are in poor repair, the drawers are broken or they need a new counter top then they are almost better off getting new cabinets.

You can come in to either of our Cabinet Showrooms in Portland Or Gresham. And we can help you with a new design. We can actually do a computer design so you can see your kitchen before you buy it. This way you can remodel your kitchen to the way you want it, rather than leave it the way it is.

Dave Warren
Owner

Ugly Kitchen Contest Winner!

Yamhill Carlton Middle School Custodian Wins
Ugly Kitchen Contest, Earning a Free $10,000 Remodel
From Three Portland Businesses

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Kitchen Concepts, DeWhitt Appliance and the Flooring Depot & Surfaces provide the materials to create a wonderfully updated kitchen.

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When Patricia Howard, a school custodian at Yamhill Carlton middle school heard about a recent Ugly Kitchen Contest at Portland’s Home & Garden Expo Center co-sponsored by three Portland area businesses, she knew she had to enter.

Working hard and taking care of others for many years resulted in a kitchen that just was in desperate need of an update . She had also lost her husband five years ago so it was hard for her to do repairs on her own. Her oven hadn’t worked for the past three years and she had been cooking on a hot plate, in the toaster oven or in the microwave. Her bathroom had just been remodeled with the kind help from neighbor and friend Bob Nufer, a local business owner of Misty Mountain Mushrooms. He recently had hired local contractor Bill LaRue for her to fix the sinking bathroom floor. He also took her under his wing and set up a meeting at a bank to review the possibility of a home loan for her to help complete the updates. The application hit road blocks because of the lack of credit in her name and continues to be explored.

Read the whole story and see the photos here!

Ugly Kitchen Contest is Announced

Let Your Ugly Kitchen Help You Win Big!

Win a New Kitchen Valued At Over $10,000

Do you think your kitchen has what it takes to be crowned the ugliest kitchen in town? Are your avocado-green appliances, dark, heavy cabinetry and peeling linoleum floors ready for a major makeover? This is your chance to let that eyesore win you the kitchen of your dreams! Kitchen Concepts, Flooring Depot and DeWhitt present The Ugly Kitchen Contest.

The winner will receive a gorgeous new kitchen with Fashion Forward flooring and backsplash furnished by Flooring Depot and a new refrigerator from DeWhitt Appliances, beautiful Oregon-made Edgewater cabinets with all the extras, Corian® countertops and gourmet Corian® sink from Kitchen Concepts. All of the actual prize items will be on display at the Home and Garden Show at the Expo Center and afterward at the Kitchen Concepts Portland Showroom at 12518 NE Airport way.

To Enter Your Current “Gem” In The Ugly Kitchen Contest:

Submit one good photo of your ugly contender at the Home and Garden Show at the Expo
Center – Feb. 24-28th at booth #331 or #1631.

Emailed submissions WILL NOT be considered; the photos must be dropped off in person. Photos should be at least 4 x 6 and at most 8 x 10. The kitchen photos will be judged by a panel of professionals on April 3rd and the winner will be contacted the following week. All judges’ decisions are final and the award will have no cash value. Install not included. To see the complete contest rules go to KitchenConceptsinOregon.com

• Portland’s Home and Garden Expo at the Convention Center February 24-28th
(Booth #331 or #1631)
• Kitchen Concepts Portland at 12518 NE Airport Way or in Gresham at 400 NE Division or at the Flooring Depot at 12304 NE Whitaker Way until March 31st at 5 pm.

Before and after photos of the kitchen winner and the finalists will be shown in the showrooms and at KitchenConceptsinOregon.com in April.

Come in and visit the Kitchen Concepts and DeWhitt teams and Flooring Depot to see the displays of inspired contestants. One lucky contestant will win big this spring with a little help from their ugly kitchen!