Repairing a kitchen panel

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Hi all, been looking for a new panel for my kitchen for a while which is from a discontinued range. Anyway finally found one on eBay the right size and just my luck it got damaged. Anyone got any handy ideas of how to cover this up? A way to make it a bit better? Or just live with it?

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You could try some brute force

What you need is some decent wood, something like 2x4 and some clamps

Then you need to place the wood along the most damaged part, clamp as hard as you can to try to force the bulge back in, it wotn be perfect and wont go all the way, but should reduce the bulge a bit

Are they "plastic" coated? If so you can go more extreme depending on your manual dexterity. If they are coated you can slowly cut around the top so you can pull it back slightly
Carve out some of the innards, fill back up after doing some clamping (clamping with some removed should allow a better return to original shape), then glue the top trim back into place

I would definately try the brute force clamping first, youc an often get 60-80% or so return to shape and that may be enough
 
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