How hard is it to turn a door into a wall and match cabinetry?

[csziggy]

16. Closing off the door is easy - matching the cabinetry harder

Looking at the photo in #6 and reading the discussion, here are my thoughts.

You don't have to have a matching cabinet for the dishwasher. Building matching boxes for additional cabinets would not be that hard - matching the wood and finish to the old doors would be difficult. To add more upper cabinets, I would consider removing the doors to the cabinets over the sink, use those for uppers over the dishwasher or elsewhere, make the cabinets over the sink open shelves.

If you add a peninsula to make the kitchen a U - though I would probably just add an island - you could go with painted cabinets for that and mix up the doors. If you do add a peninsula coming out of where the pantry is (?), think of how you could re-use the doors elsewhere. That pantry is why I would just consider and island - and islands in contrasting cabinetry are popular.