Kitchen reno: buying a set of demo cabinets and installing question

[Healthie]

We're buying a place that we're going to be doing a significant kitchen reno. Our house will have a Galley kitchen and we're removing the cabinets, taking a wall down, and moving some of the applicances around.  our new kitchen will have an 'L' shaped kitchen with an island. Buying new cabinets is expensive, and we've found a set of used, but quality-looking cabinets for sale at a house that they're also doing a kitchen reno for $600. I'm thinking we buy these, either DIY paint with a paint sprayer, or pay a cabinet shop to paint them for us. That is, assuming they have quality drawer pulls, soft-close doors, etc. The benefit here, is we could get cabinets made to match these for spaces these don't fit how we want, but use as many of these as we can. (in theory).

Has anyone done the same, and do you have any pointers for something like this?

[zolotiyeruki]

Drawer pulls/handles/knobs are trivial to replace, so aside from the cost of purchasing new hardware, I wouldn't let that deter me.  Hinges and drawer slides can be a bit trickier--if you want to replace those, you'll have to pay attention to the depth of the cabinets, where the slides mount, what type of hinge, how much offset, etc.  But they're still *very* much DIY-able.

Also, this is just my opinion, but wood cabinets look *way* better than painted cabinets. :D

[gooki]

If there's enough cabinets for your needs, or if you can get matching ones go for it.

As for painting, if their coated with anything other than paint now, be prepared to put in a lot of prep work getting them ready for painting.