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  1. How To Add Hidden Hinges To Old Cabinets - Youn

    You can see in this photo from our first kitchen postthat the cabinets originally had those old surface-mount hinges that are visible on the front of the cabinet. They were painted over at least two times, so they creaked and just felt gummed up and past their prime. We worried that a darker paint color would only accentuate them and gum them up ev...

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    Most modern kitchens use concealed hinges like these (below left) or these that require a round hole in the backside of your cabinet door for the hinge to recess into. They sell tools to make it easier to drill these holes if your doors don’t already have them, but our doors aren’t very thick and we didn’t trust them to survive all of that hole bor...

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    We actually made a video to show our little cheat for speeding the process along. This method works great on cabinets with existing hinges, since you can use the existing holes to make sure you get your placement perfect! (You can also watch it here on YouTube)

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    If you can’t watch the video right now, here’s a brief version of what we did. Instead of using the paper templates provided in the packaging – which involved a lot of cutting, taping, leveling, pencil-marking, etc. – we temporarilyinstalled the new hinge OVER the old hinge using one existing screw that lined up with the new hinge holes. This held ...

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    Before you paint, be sure to carefully sand and fill any leftover holes from the old hinges – especially on the surface of your cabinet frames. Once our coat of wood filler was dried, we sanded off the excess and were left with a smooth cabinet frame that was ready for paint… and the last vestigates of our old surface-mount hinges would be gone! On...

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