/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Mobile home cabinets: buy new versus refacing.

This pic is not mine but the closest thing I could find since I'm not home atm. My early 90s mobile home has the cheapest cabinets I've ever seen. The doors are just a flat piece of (pressed) wood (nothing fancy whatsoever). Anyway here's an explanation of what I've got if the pic doesn't make sense:

I've got 2 banks of upper cabinets (3 connected, straight basic cabinets as well as 3 that are in a corner "L" shaped--between window and fridge). The lowers consist of 3 taller doors, 2 are below the sink with 1 more to the right (same as in the pic). Beside the fridge I have 4 drawers. These drawers aren't even on casters, They turn to the left and right when you pull them out. This little bank of drawers almost certainly would need to be replaced. I'm on a budget and don't see the point in spending $1500-2000 on cabinets when the cabinets themselves (sans for the drawers) are fine, it's just the doors and facing that are hideous.

What I was thinking was I could pull the cabinet doors off, and cut a piece of real wood (instead of pressed), using the current door holes as a template, stain or paint this and install over the current junk (or pop that old piece off and replace entirely). Then buy new doors (paint/stain). Thoughts? I don't plan to live here forever and this place is old enough that I just don't think it's a good investment to put all new doors.