Replacing two kitchen cabinet doors - can't find a match ??

Hi, My puppy chewed two kitchen cabinet doors. Theyre about 20 years old, oak finish. The only marking inside the drawers reads "excel". I've called a bunch of places and no one has heard of Excel and they don't match anything I have looked at. Also no place I have called will custom build 2 doors. Has anyone heard of excel ? Is there a massive cabinet warehouse website anyone here would recommend? or a custom manufacturer that would handle an order like this? Thanks

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tfortarget1
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'Oak Finish' as in faux woodgrain over chipboard, with maybe real wood trim, or oak finish as in real wood? 1987 could go either way. If chipboard, you are probably SOL, but if real wood, any custom millwork/cabinetry shop could probably make them for you. It would not be cheap, though, especially if they have to make a knife for their planer to do it. If they are real wood, I'd try a furniture repair place- usually listed under 'refinishing' in the yellow pages. I've seen them do some amazing things with epoxy filler and spot painting with an 00 brush. If you look, you can still see the damage, but it doesn't jump out at you. It is artisan work, so expect to pay accordingly.

Other option- write down all the dimensions for ALL the doors in the kitchen, and take a door with you, and hunt down the nearest kitchen cabinet outlet store. Many of them carry loose doors- factory overruns, slight seconds, spares for apartment-complex style cabinets, etc. (Apartments I used to live in changed the doors on the cheap cabinets all the time when tenants would trash them.)

Keep in mind, if people know you have a puppy, they will understand. I'd live with it till the mutt learns some manners, and then maybe use that as an excuse to refresh the kitchen. If the carcasses and face frames are in good shape, one of the kitchen refacing companies could change out the drawer fronts and doors pretty cheap. (That is a simple swap- it is applying the veneer to the frames and ends that usually looks tacky.)

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aemeijers

Are these solid wood? How much damage? Can you upload a photo?

Reply to
Norminn

Theyre not solid. The dog ripped large strips of the oak finish off.

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tfortarget1

If the doors are plain, flat and finished with Formica or similar, you might have better luck having new laminate applied.

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Norminn

In Pittsburgh Excel is a kitchen supplier here is their web page, but good luck I doubt you could find anything for a four year old particle board cabinet.

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Cliff Hartle

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Stan

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