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Update on Refacing Cabinets

bichon mom — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:51:28 GMT

Hi everyone! I posted an update on my estimates for refacing my cabinets. I meant to post here but it is on the community chat forum!
Anyway, I will be brief here. Cabinet maker wanted $9400, Home Depot $16000-18000 plus $550 for thermafoil cabinets. Waiting to hear from Kitchen Magic. They had to cancel today. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

GSPgirl — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:35:12 GMT

@bichon mom wrote:
Hi everyone! I posted an update on my estimates for refacing my cabinets. I meant to post here but it is on the community chat forum!
Anyway, I will be brief here. Cabinet maker wanted $9400, Home Depot $16000-18000 plus $550 for thermafoil cabinets. Waiting to hear from Kitchen Magic. They had to cancel today. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

Are your cabinets good enough to have refacing done? Even though we had hardwood cabinet doors, they were sc*ewed into particle board. So even if we had refacing done, our cupboard doors would still fall off once the s*rew came out of the old particle board. This is what we did. I went with a cabinet installer/owner. He only sold hardwood cabinets. I highly recommend this route. They were better priced than the big box stores. HD and Lowes, who told me their's were hardwood, but they didn't look anything like the ones my installer used. He had great reviews and my two friends used him too. We stayed with the same footprint, so I didn't have to have my hardwood floors redone. There are so many hardwood cabinets out there. They come in boxes and my installer put them together in my garage and then installed them. I love them. I've had them for 3 years. The s*rews go into hard wood and not particle board. This is very important. My kitchen was a third of the cost of having the fancy kitchen showroom install them. Good luck! I have a nice size kitchen too.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

jackthebear — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:29:18 GMT

$16K?

that seems high

I am in the process of getting new cabinets for my kitchen, and I getting quotes of $10K and I have a big kitchen.

my new cabinets are going to be simple white shaker which could account for the price.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

GSPgirl — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:36:43 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
$16K?

that seems high
I am in the process of getting new cabinets for my kitchen, and I getting quotes of $10K and I have a big kitchen.

my new cabinets are going to be simple white shaker which could account for the price.

My cabinets were around $8,000.00. I think 16K is high, but I also don't know where the poster lives. I live in the South.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

jackthebear — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:40:47 GMT

@GSPgirl wrote:
@jackthebear wrote:
$16K?

that seems high
I am in the process of getting new cabinets for my kitchen, and I getting quotes of $10K and I have a big kitchen.

my new cabinets are going to be simple white shaker which could account for the price.

My cabinets were around $8,000.00. I think 16K is high, but I also don't know where the poster lives. I live in the South.

true I thought same, I'm in the NYC metro area so not the cheapest area.

will check in later.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

bichon mom — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:01:41 GMT

Just to provide more info. I live in CT where everything is high! Lol! I have 26 doors and several drawers. I am looking for simple shaker style in a darker tone. My current oak cabinets are solid wood so I don't have to replace all the cabinets. Home Depot is out! Way out of budget and not even wood.
Thx for your feedback.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

karlam — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:28:05 GMT

I have 26 doors and 9 drawers. I was looking at a shaker style cabinent in solid wood. The price I received from the store (a small local cabinent company) was $20,000. That did not include installation.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

CLEM — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:15:09 GMT

@bichon mom My goodness how big is your kitchen? To pay this amount for refacing, I assume you are looking for a particular kind of material that is very costly. But perhaps new cabinets might be less expensive even good ones.

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

homedecor1 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:57:00 GMT

Three years ago we went thru the same thing - refacing vs new.

Refacing turned out to be a lot more expensive & worse: our contractor told us "the fronts were wood but the actual box to the cabinet was particle board". over 20 years old and never get "thermofoil" refacing (which is big in our area & big box stores).

over time they change color and color fades - grease, etc. stick to it. Some of my neighbors had this done it really looks like fake wood.

We opted for full wood cabinets. And of course, expensive but well worth the investment - love my kitchen & those self-closing cabinets and drawers!

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

kivah — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:37:30 GMT

DO NOT use HOME DEPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Horrible!!!!!

Check out Yelp, ask friends, neighbors, family

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

lilypadfrog — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:22:32 GMT

My kitchen with 29 doors and 10 drawers with 2 bathroom's 6 doors were painted fir $1750.00

Re: Update on Refacing Cabinets

JeanLouiseFinch — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 01:43:35 GMT

If I were in the market to do this and got a quote of $16-18K just for refacing, which I think is nuts, I'd rip everything out and start over with brand new. That said, I'm not interested in sinking that kind of money into my kitchen. Our cabinets haven't fallen off the walls yet and I have some pretty heavy dishes in some of them. I've become such a fan of the paint Rethunk Junk by Laura that sometime soon I'll be painting my kitchen cabinets for probably under $100, maybe another $100 or so if we change out the hardware too.