He did the same thing with his next company, which sold a material to reface cabinets.

What is your first port of call if you want to reface a kitchen appliance?

"But laminates are the least expensive way to reface your cabinets."

To reface cabinets, first remove the doors, drawers, shelves and all hardware.

If you wish to reface them, do so before trimming any veneer extending past their edges.

In 1859, the deteriorating condition of the plaster led the city to reface the base in marble.

When it came time to deal with the facade, the new owners decided not to strip the building down to its skeleton and reface it.

The third way to reface cabinets is with laminates that are either solid colors or printed to simulate wood grain.

That deal includes $100,000 for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reface its old power station in a style complementary with the new building.

The museum's design, by the architect Brad Cloepfil, would add windows and reface the exterior with terra cotta.

Cabinet doors and drawer fronts can be refaced if they have flat sides and square edges, but it is difficult to reface those with curved surfaces.

In 1728/9 he appointed Burlington's favoured builder Roger Morris to reface the house in Portland stone.

The developers plan to rip out the existing garden, demolish half the Cottages and reface the other half in limestone and granite, to match their tower.

Then take our quiz and learn how you can reface your appliances yourself, whether you want to paint them in bold colors or go for the standard plain white.

In 1981, as midtown development began to shift west, Faith Stewart-Gordon announced that the restaurant would add three floors and completely reface its building, but the project was never carried out.

Mr. Chambers rebuilt the set, which won an Elliot Norton Award in Boston, for less money than it costs most New Yorkers to reface their cabinets.

If the building's footprint is not too big (sprawling office floors beget cavelike apartments) and its bones are solid, it is often cheaper and faster to reface than rebuild.

Mr. Hare explained that in most cases, homeowners who reface their cabinets themselves must first decide what kind of material and look they want - wood, Thermo Foil or laminate.

In the mid-1760s Robert Mylne was employed to reface the courtyard in stone, and he may also have been responsible for extensions to the two garden wings which were made at this time.

As part of the procedure, the workers were to remove the cracked brick, spread a layer of cement against the interior of the wall and then reface the wall with new brick.

Razing or refacing often boils down to a cost-benefit analysis, said Joseph Sapp, a San Diego developer who plans to reface three downtown office buildings here and convert them to apartments.

"We bought it because the upfront cost was minimal, probably not more than it would have cost us to reface a product we would have bought from the outside," Mr. Greco said.

Even the term "veneer" can be slightly misleading, he said, for the wood veneer his company uses to reface the front surface of existing cabinets is actually a sheet of solid wood 1/16th of an inch thick.

Many building owners are choosing to reface their buildings, keeping the original structure intact and adding a new covering, or "skin," said Philip Monastero, a principal in the Baldassano Architectural Group in Ronkonkoma.

Designs to extend and reface the building were commissioned, after some canvassing among John Soane and George Dance, from Henry Holland - though even then the Company's Surveyor, architect Richard Jupp, insisted on overseeing construction.