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Is Refacing Cheaper Than Replacing Cabinets in Boca Raton?

Is refacing cheaper than replacing cabinets in Boca Raton? Yes, and by more than the cabinet line on a quote shows. A kitchen of about thirty linear feet refaces here for $7,500 to $12,000, with the boxes and the countertop left where they are. New custom cabinetry starts at $18,000 before any countertop, and a full remodel of a kitchen that size lands between $25,000 and $42,000.

Refaced, about 30 linear feet: $7,500–$12,000; · the boxes and the countertop stay
Full remodel, 21 to 35 linear feet: $25,000–$42,000; · the whole kitchen in one contract

Is refacing cheaper than replacing cabinets in Boca Raton: white shaker doors and drawer fronts with brass pulls under a speckled brown granite countertop, beside a window with a wood frame

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Why Two Quotes Can Land on the Same Number

Ask three companies to reface a kitchen and three to replace the cabinets, and the six numbers can sit close together. That does not prove refacing stopped being cheaper. It proves the quotes have to be read before they are compared.

A replacement quote can stop at the boxes. Our own floor for new custom cabinetry, $18,000, covers the cabinets, the tear out of the old ones and the installation, and nothing else: no countertop, no backsplash, no floor. A refacing quote can run the other way and include every drawer box, end panel and toe kick. Side by side, the smaller job can look like the bigger one.

The Federal Trade Commission's advice on home improvement fits this closely. A written estimate should describe the work to be done, the materials, the completion date and the price, and a big difference among estimates deserves an explanation. Two estimates that match deserve the same question. What comes out of the kitchen, what goes back in, and what is left for somebody else to price?

What Leaves the Kitchen With the Old Boxes

A base cabinet cannot come out while a countertop is sitting on it, so replacing cabinets starts by lifting the top. Stone is cut and seamed to the boxes under it. To go back on, it has to come off whole and fit the new boxes exactly. When it does not, the countertop joins the job, and a quartz top here starts at $4,500 on its own.

The top takes the backsplash with it. Tile is bonded to the wall right above the counter, and it tends to break as the counter lifts. Under the boxes, the sink and the dishwasher are disconnected and hooked up again. A floor laid around the old cabinets can leave a bare strip wherever a new box lands in a different place.

Refacing touches none of it. The boxes stay screwed to the wall, so the countertop, the backsplash, the plumbing and the floor stay exactly where they were.

A close view of a glossy cream cabinet door with a raised panel, a narrow painted strip beside it, and the edge of the wall behind

When Replacing Is the Cheaper Answer

Refacing is only cheaper on boxes worth keeping. Press the floor of the sink base and the frame beside the dishwasher. If either one is soft or swollen, new doors would hang on a kitchen that is still failing behind them, and the same work gets paid for twice.

The other case is a countertop that is coming out anyway. If the top is cracked, dated or the wrong material, both routes now pay for a new one, and the gap between them shrinks to the boxes alone. That is the moment to ask whether the doors were ever the problem. If what bothers you is the corner nothing reaches into or the drawers you never had, new boxes fix that. New doors do not.

Before You Compare Quotes on an Older Boca Raton House

Look up the year your house was built before the quotes arrive. The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser keeps it on the record for each parcel, inside the City and out in unincorporated addresses like our own office at 20283 State Road 7, Ste 412, Boca Raton, FL 33498. If the year is before 1978, a federal rule requires that anyone paid to do work that disturbs painted surfaces be certified and use lead-safe work practices. Sanding painted face frames for a reface disturbs painted surfaces. So does pulling cabinets off a painted wall. A quote that does not say how it handles that is not ready to compare.

An older kitchen with oak cabinets, a white laminate counter, a white electric range and a checkered vinyl floor under a boxed soffit

The whole price ladder behind these numbers, from the smallest kitchen to a layout change, is on Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton.

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What Each Route Pays For, in Order

The video runs the comparison in the order a quote tends to hide it: the two price bands side by side, what a replacement quote can leave out, what comes out of the kitchen with the old boxes, and the two cases where new boxes turn out to be the better buy.

Common Questions

Is $10,000 enough to redo kitchen cabinets in Boca Raton?

For refacing, it can be: most kitchens here reface for $7,500 to $12,000, and $10,000 sits inside that band. For new cabinets it is not, because new custom cabinetry starts at $18,000 before a countertop. Which route your kitchen can take depends on the boxes, not the budget.

How much does it cost to replace 20 kitchen cabinets in Boca Raton?

We do not price by the number of cabinets, because a count says nothing about their width. We price by linear feet. A complete rebuild of a kitchen up to twenty linear feet that keeps its layout lands between $15,000 and $24,000, with cabinets, countertop, backsplash, demolition and installation.

Is painting cabinets cheaper than refacing in Boca Raton?

Yes. Painting keeps the doors you have and changes their color. Refacing replaces every door, drawer front and hinge and covers the frames. Paint cannot change the shape of a door, and a coat over an old finish is the version that shows wear first in a humid kitchen. If the doors themselves are the problem, paint only changes their color.

Recent Kitchen Remodeling Projects in Boca Raton

Kitchen opened to the living room, with a seated island Open concept kitchen remodeling
Full-height cabinetry and a waterfall island Luxury kitchen remodeling
Galley kitchen in a condo, under twenty linear feet Small kitchen remodel
New shaker fronts on the original boxes Kitchen cabinet refacing

Floor-to-ceiling run with a tall pantry Custom cabinetry
Quartz with a waterfall end on the island Quartz countertop installation
Granite perimeter with a raised breakfast bar Granite countertop installation
Counters at two heights, open underneath Accessible kitchen remodeling

Which of the two routes your kitchen can take is settled by the boxes before anyone prices it. The four checks that decide it, the three ways a kitchen gets refaced, and what the $7,500 floor covers are on kitchen cabinet refacing in Boca Raton. Run those checks with a flashlight before you ask for a single number, so every quote you collect is pricing the same kitchen.

Send us the sink base before you send us a quote.

Email a photo of the open sink base with the number of doors and drawers, or bring them to our office at 20283 State Road 7, Ste 412, Boca Raton, FL 33498. That is enough for us to say whether refacing is on the table and roughly where your kitchen lands.

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