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  • The house we're buying has a Magnet Somerton kitchen - I'd like to remove the wall hung cabinets and replace the fronts of the remaining cabinets. Plykea/custom fronts aren't an option for this but is there anyone else? It's likely we'd be re-doing the kitchen in the next 2-3yrs but I really dont like the existing cupboard so would prefer to change if poss.

  • Plykea/custom fronts aren't an option for this but is there anyone else?

    Cutwrights will cut and edge panels for you to any size you want from a wide range of materials and finishes. They can make up shaker style doors for you but don't think that's your thing seeing as you're looking to get rid of some. Will come in at a reasonable price per door if you just want to have flat panels. Also you can get them to CNC out any hinge recesses etc saving you a job.

  • There are loads of companies out there doing replacement doors for cheapish. Probably still looking at £500-1,000 for a full kitchen though.

  • Magnet Somerton kitchen

    It looks fairly inoffensive to me so andosandos point seems sensible.

    Have you thought about changing the door handles and repainting or retiling the rest of the kitchen?

    Some friends had a place with a decent kitchen that wasn't to their taste. They painted, retiled and replaced the floor and it looked totally different despite still having cabinets and counters they never would have chosen.

    Admittedly it wasn't big so changing the floor was cheap.

  • We went down a fake plykea route - local diy store with a proper table saw cut some nice bb ply sheets to the size of each for the fronts. I bought the cheapest ikea door to use as a jig to drill the holes in the right places. Cost a it £150 compared to the £1k quoted and took a day.

    Presumably you could do this for most kitchen brands?

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