Keep the kitchen you have. Change the kitchen you see. A new color, a new door style, new hardware — installed in days rather than weeks, at roughly half the cost of full custom.
Refacing keeps the existing cabinet boxes — the carcass screwed to your wall — and replaces every surface you actually see. New doors, new drawer fronts, new end panels, new hardware. Optional new interior shelves if the originals are tired. The result reads as a brand-new kitchen because every visible surface is new.
It is the right call when your layout works, your boxes are solid (most plywood and well-built particleboard cabinets qualify), and what you want is a different look — a different door profile, a different finish, a different colour. It is not the right call when the layout fights you, when the boxes are water-damaged, or when you want to change the footprint.
We finish with Sherwin-Williams paints and stains, and source door faces and veneers through Gizir and Querkus/Decospan — the same material partners we use on full custom kitchens. Refacing is a price point, not a quality compromise.
What stays: the cabinet boxes, your layout, your countertops, your flooring, your appliances, your plumbing. The kitchen stays usable for most of the project.
What's replaced: every door and drawer front, exposed end panels, toe kicks, crown and light-rail mouldings, hardware. New finish, new colour, new profile.
When to step up to full custom: if you want to change the footprint, add an island, move appliances, or your boxes have failed. We'll tell you which camp you're in during the in-home consultation.
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Frank or one of the shop's craftsmen comes to your kitchen. We assess the cabinet boxes — material, condition, plumb — and confirm refacing is the right call. If your boxes don't qualify, we say so on the spot.
You choose a door profile (shaker, slab, raised-panel, custom), a substrate (paint-grade, stain-grade, Gizir thermofoil, Querkus/Decospan veneer), and a finish — any Sherwin-Williams paint or stain. We bring samples, not a thousand-page catalogue.
Doors, drawer fronts, end panels, and mouldings are built and finished in our shop on N. Monterey St. — not subbed out. Typical shop time runs two to four weeks depending on door profile and finish.
Crew on site for roughly three to five days for a typical kitchen. We prep boxes, apply matched skins or paint to exposed sides, hang every new door and drawer front, set hardware, and tune the reveals. Your kitchen stays usable evenings and overnight.
Every door swings true, every drawer closes soft, every reveal is even. Anything that isn't right is corrected before we leave. You keep the leftover paint and a written record of finish IDs for touch-ups years down the road.
Refinishing strips and recoats your existing doors — same doors, new colour. Refacing replaces the doors, drawer fronts, and visible end panels, keeping the boxes — same layout, brand-new look. Replacement tears out everything and rebuilds. Refacing sits between the two: more transformative than refinishing, far less disruptive than replacement, and typically about half the cost of full custom.
From the date doors are ordered, plan on two to four weeks of shop build time, then three to five working days on site for a standard kitchen. Larger kitchens or specialty veneers run longer. We give a written schedule before any deposit.
Yes — that's one of the main reasons people choose refacing. Most of the work happens in our shop, not your home. Once we're on site, your sink, range, fridge, and countertops stay in place; you lose your kitchen for portions of the workday and get it back every evening.
Every door we build for our full-custom work is available on a refacing job — shaker, slab, raised-panel, beaded inset, custom profiles. Substrates include paint-grade hardwood, stain-grade wood species, Gizir high-pressure laminate doors, and Querkus/Decospan natural-veneer slab fronts. Finishes are matched in Sherwin-Williams paint or stain.
That's part of the consultation. We bring physical door and finish samples into your kitchen and pair them against your countertop, backsplash, flooring, and trim under your actual lighting — not a showroom's. If a colour fights the room, you'll see it before you commit.
If your layout works and your boxes are sound, refacing gives you a new-kitchen result at roughly half the cost and a fraction of the disruption. If your layout is the problem, refacing won't fix it — and we'll tell you. We don't sell refacing to customers who need a full remodel.
Yes. The same process applies to bath vanities, built-in offices, laundry rooms, and entertainment centres. If it has a cabinet box and visible doors, it can be refaced.
Family-operated since 2003. In-home consultation, finish samples brought to you, doors and panels built in our Gilbert shop. Phone the shop or send a few photos of your current cabinets — we'll tell you whether refacing is the right call.