It still sickens me to see people painting cabinets. I have said it many times on here. YOU CAN NOT PAINT CABINETS. Especially oak. I wont say it anymore.........
Do you really want to strip those doors? Most cabinet doors have nooks and crannies. Whats your time worth? If you have oak you can buy brand new raw sanded custom doors around $35 each. Now do I have your attention? Maple doors for $50 each or cherry for $70. How many doors do you have? How much time do you have and whats it worth?
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I highly recomend the concealed hinges. Your only problem here is you will have to purchase a forsteners bit to drill them hinge bores. It will be 32MM or the inch equivalent. Its easy.
Now you have nice clean sanded raw doors to finish as you wish.
As for the frames. You will have to sand them. You have a mess on your hands. With just doing frames I wouldnt bother using strippers. Just get a quality belt sander to rip off the finish. Then use a palm sander with gradual less course sand paper till you get a nice smooth finish.
The sides: Most cabinets, even quality brand cabinets, only the face frames and doors are real wood. The sides are particle board melamine. You can not sand this. Instead you might try and locate an eigth inch thick skin and skin the sides and the toe kick. The face frame should extend an extra quarter inch past the side. We call this the ear. Your skin will tuck right behind this ear. Then just finish the skin just like you would the rest.
You should really consider doing a crown molding above. It just makes the final job sweet. We discussed this in another forum yesterday about DIYers doing crown. It is not recomended but if you have a friend that can do it or if you can do it then it will make the job real custom.
To answer the usual question again. Refacing costs way more then brand new cabinets. And in most cases you will have no wood but rather laminate doors and laminate facing. Yuck ! And you still have the same ol disgusting insides.