replacing cabinet doors and counters

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Has anyone done this successfully? I can't afford/don't really want to redo the whole kitchen, but would like to replace the cabinet doors and the countertop has really had it now.

Problem is I can't work out who did the kitchen originally and why the doors aren't standard sizes.

Also what kind of trade would replace the counter top. A carpenter doing other jobs for us said we need plumber and gas hob disconnected so he can't do that.

Apologies if this is all massively obvious, I am a bit stuck working out how to proceed.

We had all the doors replaced
I bought them myself from kitchen door workshop and they do custom sizes
it cost me £360
i got a local carpenter to fit them, £200
it looks really good.
we didn’t replace worktops though so I can’t help there, though I was told the carpenter could have done that too.

You can find businesses that replace the countertops.

I had mine redone with quartz overlays. It was a bit pricey, but they did everything as part of the job including fitting a new sink and refitting the hob.

My doors still need replacing. There are a few business out there that do them. It's not hard to DIY, but you need to make sure they are specced correctly and have the hinge holes put in as they are quite hard to cut yourself as they are big and countersunk.

The biggest problem I see is colour matching with your existing trim. Replacing the doors is easy, but replacing the trim is harder work.

Can you paint your units instead?

@scrunchmum I have already painted them a few times, but there are bits where the mdf or chipboard is deteriorating from getting wet or chipped or damaged otherwise - they have just gone a bit beyond acceptable now!

@GasPanic not sure we have trim? Do you mean the bits between the cupboards and drawers?

@Twoshoesnewshoes Kitchen Doors workshop looks great, hoping I can match to standard sizes though.

Trim probably the wrong word. But basically all the other bits that match the colour of the doors. So side panels, kickboards, cornice (I had to look that up) ... etc etc.

Aah. We have no cornice and they seem to do end panels. Kickboards I can paint white? Or they seem to offer paintable doors so matching would be less of an issue but more work for me...

Get the plumber to do the disconnections, carpenter to fit the new worktops then plumber again to connect things back up.

I did this when I sold my last house - local builder/carpenter replaced the worktops, fitted new doors and a new sink and taps. The old kitchen was dated and the doors were peeling. ‘New’ kitchen looked great and added about £5k to the asking price. Cost about £1k all in.