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[bichon mom]

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!

[GSPgirl]

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@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!

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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.  

[jackthebear]

$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.

[GSPgirl]

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@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.

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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.

[jackthebear]

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@GSPgirl wrote:

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@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.

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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.

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

will check in later.   

[bichon mom]

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.

[karlam]

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.

[CLEM]

@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.

[homedecor1]

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!

[kivah]

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

Check out Yelp, ask friends, neighbors, family