Cabinetry
Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Boca Raton, FL
Kitchen cabinet refacing Boca Raton keeps the boxes that are still sound and replaces every part of the kitchen you actually touch, in three to five days instead of three months.
- In your house
- 3–5 days
- Start to finish
- 2–4 weeks
- Workmanship warranty
- 2 years
- License
- CGC1524886
- Licensed & insured: CGC1524886
- 350+ projects completed
- 2-year labor warranty
- Answered 7 AM–10 PM, 7 days
What Refacing Replaces and What It Leaves Alone
Refacing replaces every part of a kitchen you put your hands on and keeps the part you never see. The doors come off and do not go back. Drawer fronts, hinges and drawer slides are replaced. The face frames, which are the strips of wood showing between and around the doors, get covered in a matching veneer or repainted. When it is done, the cabinets read as new cabinets, because everything visible is new.
What stays is the box: the sides, the back, the shelves and the floor of each cabinet, still screwed to the wall where they have been. That is the trade, and the whole question is whether your boxes have earned it. A sound box is a sound box whether it was installed last year or in 1985, and paying to tear one out and replace it with an identical empty box is money that buys you nothing.
The other half of the trade is time. A refaced kitchen runs two to four weeks from the day you approve the selections, with three to five days of that inside your house. Nothing is opened up, nothing is demolished, and the sink and the range keep working most of that time.
The Test That Decides Whether Your Kitchen Can Be Refaced
There is one test, and it takes about four minutes with a flashlight. Everything else on this page is secondary to it.
Press the floor of the sink base. Open the cabinet under the sink, reach to the back and push down on the panel. It should be firm and dry. If it flexes, sounds soft or shows a swollen edge that has gone furry, water has been getting in and the panel has stopped being structural. That is the single most common reason a Boca Raton kitchen cannot be refaced, because it is where three decades of small leaks end up.
Check the back corners and the stile beside the dishwasher. Corners are where a box racks out of square, and the strip of frame next to the dishwasher takes years of steam every time the door is opened at the end of a cycle. Both should be tight and dry.
Turn a hinge screw. If it spins without biting, the panel behind it has lost its grip. One loose screw is a repair. Loose screws down the whole run mean the material is done.
Open and close two drawers. A drawer box that has come apart at the corner or whose bottom has dropped out of its groove is replaced during refacing anyway, so this one does not disqualify the job. It changes the estimate, not the answer.
If those checks come back firm, refacing is the right call and it will cost you a fraction of new cabinetry. Here is where it is not the right call, and we say so at the measurement with the smaller sale in front of us.
The layout is the problem. Refacing changes no dimension in the room. The corner nothing reaches into stays. The narrow pantry stays narrow. The four inches of dead wall beside the refrigerator stay dead. If what you dislike is where things are rather than how they look, doors will not fix it and you are looking at custom cabinetry or a full remodel.
The soffit is coming out. Take down the bulkhead above the wall cabinets and the uppers have to grow to reach the ceiling. A cabinet that changes height is a new cabinet. Refacing cannot add height.
You want a different cabinet configuration. Deep drawers where there are shelves, a wider opening, a cabinet built around the column. Those are new boxes by definition.
The boxes failed the test. A beautiful door on a soft box is money spent on a kitchen that is still coming apart behind the door, and in three years you will pay for the same work twice.
The Three Ways a Kitchen Gets Refaced, and What Separates Them
Three things get sold under the word refacing, they cost different amounts, and they last different lengths of time. The difference is entirely in what happens to the face frame, so that is the question to put to anyone quoting you.
Veneer over the face frames, which is what refacing normally means
New doors and drawer fronts in the material you chose, and a matching wood or laminate veneer applied over the existing face frames so the whole front reads as one new surface. Done properly the veneer is cut to the frame, wrapped at the edges and rolled down, and the seam does not read from standing height. This is the version that changes the color and the material of the kitchen, and it is the one that survives a humid room, because the veneer is a sealed face rather than a coat of paint over old finish.
Paint the frames, replace the doors
Cheaper, faster, and it works when you are staying inside the same color family and the existing frames are in good condition. The risk is that the frames and the new doors are now two different finishes that have to match at close range and age at the same rate. In a kitchen that gets afternoon sun through a slider, they usually do not.
Rigid thermofoil, laminate and the material question
Door materials matter more here than the catalog photos suggest. Rigid thermofoil is a vinyl skin heat pressed over a shaped substrate, and it looks excellent on day one, but heat is what forms it and heat is what releases it: the panel above a range or beside a wall oven is where it lifts first. Painted wood and painted MDF hold up better next to a heat source. Laminate and veneer both do well against humidity as long as the edges are sealed.
If the doors you choose are solid wood, where that wood was dried decides how much it moves after it is hanging in your kitchen. The federal wood handbook is direct that wood should be installed at the moisture content it will live at, and its map puts the warm, damp coastal band at 11% average moisture content for interior woodwork, against 8% for most of the country. A door dried to an inland number and adjusted flush in February will not be flush in August.
The panels underneath the finish are regulated, and it is worth asking to see the paperwork. The federal formaldehyde rule reaches the finished product and not only the raw sheet: it covers hardwood plywood, medium density fiberboard and particleboard, as well as household and other finished goods containing these products, and since March 2019 those products carry a label declaring compliance, certified by a third party the EPA recognizes. New doors are exactly that kind of product. A company buying certified stock has the label and will show it.
How a Refacing Job Runs
- We measure and test at your house, free, with no trip fee. Every door and drawer front gets measured and counted, and the boxes get the checks above while you watch. If the boxes fail, you hear it that day and we price the other job instead.
- Selections before anything is ordered. Door style, material, finish, hinge type, drawer slides and hardware. Doors are made to your measurements, so this is the point where the estimate becomes a fixed number rather than a range.
- A written itemized number. Doors and drawer fronts by count, drawer boxes replaced where needed, veneer or paint on the frames, hinges, slides, hardware, removal and disposal of the old doors, and the installation. It does not move unless you approve a change of scope.
- Two to four weeks while your kitchen keeps working. The doors are being made. Nothing in your house is touched during this stretch, which is the reason refacing is disruptive for days rather than months.
- Day one: strip and prepare. Old doors, drawer fronts and hardware come off and go with us. The frames get cleaned, sanded and repaired where a hinge has torn out or a corner has chipped.
- Days two and three: the faces. Veneer or paint goes onto the frames and end panels. Toe kicks and any exposed cabinet sides get the same treatment, because a refaced front against an original side panel is the detail that gives the job away.
- Days three to five: doors, drawers and adjustment. New hinges and slides go in, doors and fronts go on, and then everything gets adjusted until the gaps are even down the run and the doors sit flush. Then we walk the kitchen with you and write down anything that is not right before the last payment.
What Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Costs in Boca Raton
Refacing a Boca Raton kitchen starts at $7,500, and most kitchens land between $7,500 and $12,000. That works out to roughly $250 to $400 per linear foot of cabinetry. The band is wide because a kitchen is priced by its doors and drawers, not by its floor area, and two kitchens of the same size can differ by twenty doors.
From $7,500. Typical range $7,500 to $12,000, or about $250 to $400 per linear foot.
The floor is where we start rather than the cheapest reface anybody sells, and it exists because we do the whole kitchen. Every door, every drawer front, every hinge, every visible frame. We do not quote half a kitchen, because a kitchen with eight new doors and eleven old ones is a kitchen that looks wrong in a way nobody can name.
What moves your number
The count first: how many doors and how many drawer fronts. Then the door material and finish, which is the widest single lever on this page. Then how many drawer boxes have to be replaced rather than reused. Then the exposed surfaces, because end panels, open shelving, a peninsula side and the toe kicks all need the same treatment as the fronts. And finally the hardware, which is a selection and carries an allowance rather than a promise.
What does not move it is your zip code. The price is the same in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Deerfield Beach.
What refacing does not include
No countertop, no backsplash, no floor, no appliances and no plumbing or electrical work. If you are replacing the counter at the same time, which many people do because the kitchen is already apart in appearance, that is priced separately and templated after the fronts are on.
Permits and design are identified and priced before you approve anything. What a project needs is set by its scope and by which authority has jurisdiction over the property, so we do not guess at yours.
Why Homeowners Here Choose Refacing With Us
We tell you when not to buy this. The box test happens in front of you at the measurement, and if the panels are soft we say so with the smaller sale sitting on the table. We can afford to, because we do both jobs.
The whole front, or none of it. Every door, every drawer front, every hinge, every exposed panel and every toe kick. A partial reface is the version that looks like a repair.
Three to five days, and we say which days. You get the schedule before the crew arrives, and the sink and range keep working except where the work physically prevents it.
Two years on the installation labor, in writing. The terms come with the contract, so you read what is covered before anything is scheduled.
One licensed company, and you can check it yourself. The work is contracted by Gaven Constructions, Certified General Contractor CGC1524886, licensed, insured and bonded, and the number is searchable in the Florida DBPR licensee records.
Licensed, Insured, and Permitted in Boca Raton
Refacing is the one cabinet job that usually stays clear of a permit, and the reason is dimensional: nothing moves. No box changes size, no plumbing is disturbed, no circuit is added, no soffit comes down. What triggers review in a cabinet project is precisely the work refacing does not do.
That said, the answer is never published as a promise here, and there is a local reason for it. A Boca Raton mailing address does not settle which office has jurisdiction: a property can sit inside the City, inside the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District or in unincorporated Palm Beach County, and it is settled on the parcel rather than on the envelope. We settle that at the measurement rather than telling you which side of the line your kitchen falls on, because following a contractor's table is your exposure and not ours.
If the kitchen is in a condominium, the association is a separate authority regardless of the permit question, and it controls things a permit never touches: approved work hours, a certificate of insurance naming the association, elevator reservations and how debris leaves the building. A crew with a four hour daily window does a fraction of what the same crew does in a single family home, and that belongs in the schedule from the start rather than as a surprise on day two.
- License
- CGC1524886 Certified General Contractor, verifiable in the Florida DBPR licensee search.
- Insurance
- Licensed, insured and bonded Certificates are available before any work is scheduled.
- Labor warranty
- 2 years On installation labor. What it covers is written into your contract before any work is scheduled.
- Response time
- Within 24 hours Every inquiry gets an answer within one business day.
- Permits and design
- Priced before approval Requirements vary by project scope and by which authority has jurisdiction over the property. Any required permitting, drawings, engineering, or design services are identified and priced before the project is approved.
- Who contracts the work
- Gaven Constructions Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton was acquired by Gaven Constructions, a licensed Florida contractor. Every estimate and invoice is issued by Gaven Constructions, which holds the license and carries the insurance on every job.
Common Questions
How much does kitchen cabinet refacing cost in Boca Raton?
It starts at $7,500 and most kitchens land between $7,500 and $12,000, which is roughly $250 to $400 per linear foot of cabinetry. The count of doors and drawer fronts drives the number more than the size of the room does. That figure covers the complete front of the kitchen and nothing else: no countertop, no backsplash, no floor and no appliances. The written itemized estimate after the measurement is the number that binds us.
How long does cabinet refacing take in a Boca Raton kitchen?
Two to four weeks from the day you approve the selections, with three to five days of that with a crew in your house. The weeks are your doors being made to the measurements we took. Your kitchen keeps working through all of them, which is the main practical difference between this and new cabinetry, where the same job runs for months rather than weeks.
Is refacing worth it in Boca Raton, or should I replace the cabinets?
It comes down to the boxes and the layout, and both are checkable in an afternoon. If the boxes are firm and dry and the layout works, refacing gives you a new looking kitchen for a fraction of new cabinetry and in days rather than months. If the sink base is soft, or if what you dislike is where things are rather than how they look, refacing is money spent on the wrong problem. We run the test at the measurement and tell you which of the two you are in.
Can I keep my granite countertop when refacing cabinets in Boca Raton?
Yes, and that is one of the reasons people choose it. Nothing is unbolted from the wall and the boxes never move, so the counter is never lifted and never re templated. That matters here because a great many kitchens in this area have granite that is in perfect condition on top of cabinets that look dated, and refacing is the only version of this work that lets you change one without touching the other.
Do I need a permit to reface kitchen cabinets in Boca Raton?
Usually not, because refacing does not move plumbing, add a circuit or change any dimension in the room. What we will not do is publish that as a guarantee, because which office has jurisdiction over your property is not settled by having a Boca Raton address, and the determination is made against the actual scope. We confirm it at the measurement and, if anything is required, it is priced in the written estimate before you approve the project.
What door material holds up best in a Boca Raton kitchen?
Painted wood or painted MDF next to heat sources, and veneer or laminate with properly sealed edges everywhere else. Rigid thermofoil looks excellent on day one and is the material most likely to lift at the panel above a range or beside a wall oven, because heat is what formed it in the first place. Whatever the face material, the edges are the part that decides how it ages in a humid room.
Will refacing look like refacing in my Boca Raton kitchen?
Only if it is done partially or if the frames are painted rather than faced. The two things that give a reface away are an original end panel next to a new door, and a frame finish that does not match the door finish at close range. Doing the whole front, including toe kicks, exposed sides and the panel beside the refrigerator, is what makes the difference, and it is why we do not quote a partial job.
What is the downside of cabinet refacing in Boca Raton?
It changes nothing you cannot see. The layout stays exactly where it is, so the corner nothing reaches into stays, the narrow pantry stays narrow and the dead wall beside the refrigerator stays dead. No cabinet changes size, so the uppers cannot grow to the ceiling and a soffit cannot come out. And it only works if the boxes are sound: on a failing box it is money spent on the wrong problem. The upside is the mirror image of all three, which is why the box test at the measurement decides the job rather than a preference.
What is the difference between refacing and refinishing kitchen cabinets in Boca Raton?
Refinishing strips or scuffs the existing doors and recoats them, so you keep the doors you have in a different color. Refacing replaces the doors and drawer fronts entirely and puts a new veneer over the face frames, so the material, the style and the hardware all change. Refinishing is cheaper and is the right answer when you like the door style and only want the color to change. Refacing is what you want when the doors themselves are dated, damaged or the wrong profile, because no finish fixes a door shape.
How long do refaced kitchen cabinets last in Boca Raton?
As long as the boxes underneath them do, which is the whole point of testing the boxes before quoting. The new doors, drawer fronts, hinges and slides are new components with their own life ahead of them, and the veneer over the face frames is a sealed surface rather than a coat of paint over old finish, which is what makes it hold up in a humid room. What ends a refaced kitchen early is refacing a box that was already failing, and the edges: wherever a veneer or a door edge is left unsealed, this climate finds it.
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Refacing is one of three answers to a dated kitchen, and which one your room needs depends on things you can check yourself in an afternoon. The three are laid out side by side on Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton.
Press the floor of your sink base and tell us what it does.
If it is firm, refacing is probably the right answer and we can tell you roughly what your kitchen lands at from the number of doors and drawers plus a photo. If it gives under your hand, we will say so and price the other job instead. The visit is free and there is no trip fee either way.