Stain can be matched, so long as you have a place to test it out.

Order an extra door to practice matching the finish if you're diy

if you can get the doors prefinished, you might be able to have them match for a little more money.

Also increase the overlay to as big as will work to help cover the frames.

That helps so much, I hadn't thought of increasing the size of the door to cover the holes from the old hinges. Thanks! We do have a budget and are trying to prioritize costs so we get the things done that are really important to us. And we both like the cabinets, they just need a little bit of updating.

I got the idea to take my partial overlay hinges and doors to a full overlay look from Barker Doors. They sell doors and hinges for that purpose. If you poke around on their website and resources you will see them explain it a little bit. I did not end up using them since they were more expensive than a local cabinet maker, and I would of had to all the work.

Here is a before photo. It is not the best. We have 2 inch face frames and there were lipped doors before. You could see about 1.5 of the face frame before.

Here is the current state! It is still very much in progress. I have a lot of things left to update (floors, counters, fluorescent lights, back splash, appliances, etc.). If I had the money I would make that window bigger! Instead I am going to put 1 low shelf in.

I got as close to full overlay as possible. That meant that sometimes the hinge sizes were different. On these doors, the ones on the right have a 1.5 hinge and the doors on the left have a 1 inch hinge. We have a 3/8 gap between the hinge side doors so they do not rub.

Here is the trash can pull out my cabinet maker added. It used to just be a big hole where a trash compacter used to be.

We put the hinges in the same place the old ones were.

I hope that helps!

Here is the resource on Barker Doors explaining the partial overlay to full overlay thing. It also shows a bunch of photos from people that did it!

http://www.barkerdoor.com/Full-Overlay-Tutorial-s/188.htm

We moved into a home that had a really nice kitchen, but over the years, the cabinets had taken a beating. Also, the drawers were not soft close like our previous kitchen. We also used a cabinet maker who measured and ordered all new doors and drawers (new drawer boxes too). I actually paid the same amount to have my island painted as I paid to have new doors and drawers made and installed. The biggest expense was for the new drawer boxes (15 of them)! So doors would be very reasonable. They were finished with conversion varnish by the door manufacturer.

I had natural cherry, so no stain. I may try to naturally darken them a little faster by putting them in the sun a couple days.

megtannahill - thank you so much for the details. Your kitchen looks beautiful. I had no idea you could take partial overlay and get the full overlay look!!! I'm sooooo doing this!!!

We bought new doors also, but had the cabinet boxes refinished (natural wood to medium/dark stained). We had pulled out some cabinets, had a few new ones built, and changed some lower cabinets with doors to large wide drawers. If you are not doing this DIY, find a cabinet maker who you can work with and ask to see examples of their work. I think you can do this.

Glad to help! And yes you can DIY this if you want to. I chose not too because I knew figuring out all the knitty gritty like sizes of the doors, size hinges, leaving enough space between them so they don't rub, etc. would be a lot of work and I thought I would probably mess it up!