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Which Part of a Kitchen Remodel Costs the Most in Boca Raton?

Which part of a kitchen remodel costs the most in Boca Raton is the cabinetry, and it is rarely close. We price a full kitchen remodel at $25,000 to $42,000, and our custom cabinetry starts at $18,000 on its own. One line carries most of the project. Countertops come second and land at a fraction of it: quartz starts at $4,500 here.

Cabinetry, from
$18,000
· the biggest line
Quartz countertops, from
$4,500
· typical $4,500 to $7,500
Which part of a kitchen remodel costs the most in Boca Raton: floor-to-ceiling custom cabinetry with a tall pantry beside a panel-front refrigerator
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Where the Money Actually Sits

Almost nobody is surprised that cabinets cost money. What surprises people is the share, because the boxes are quoted as one line and they are really three separate purchases stacked into one number.

You are buying a carcass that holds the weight and the hinge screws, drawer boxes that get opened thousands of times a year, and the doors and finish that are the only part anyone shops for. Each one is built by different hands, priced separately and ruined separately, and a single line called cabinetry can be generous in one of the three and thin in the other two without the total looking any different.

The second reason is quantity. A kitchen has one sink and one countertop and somewhere between twenty and thirty-five feet of cabinet run. Every foot of that run is a box built, finished, delivered, set, leveled and scribed to a wall that is not straight. Nothing else in the room repeats that many times, which is why the cabinetry line moves the total more than any decision made about the parts people spend longer choosing.

Why the Box Is Where a Quote Gets Cheap

Two cabinet quotes can name the same door style, the same paint and the same brand of hinge, and describe boxes that will not last the same decade. The panel behind the door is invisible on paper and invisible in the showroom, so it is the first place a number comes down.

Ask what the panel is and how thick it is. Ask where the solid wood was dried, because the federal wood handbook maps the warm, damp coastal band at 11% average moisture content for interior woodwork, against 8% for most of the country, and doors dried to an inland number move after you have paid for them. Then ask for the compliance label: federal rule reaches the finished cabinet and not only the raw sheet, and a shop that buys certified panel has the paperwork and will hand it over. Three questions, and they sort out the biggest line on your estimate before anyone has to trust a total.

A plywood cabinet box on the shop bench with its face frame clamped in place, before finishing

What the Countertop Adds, and Where It Overtakes

There is one question that tells you whether the second line is about to become the first: is anything in the room moving, or is the new kitchen landing where the old one was?

If nothing moves, the countertop stays the second line and behaves. Ours starts at $4,500 for quartz, with $4,500 to $7,500 covering most kitchens, and it is templated off the installed cabinets rather than off a drawing. The stone is cut off site, wet, because dry-cutting engineered stone releases respirable silica and the federal standard for construction calls for a saw with an integrated water delivery system that continuously feeds water to the blade. That is a fabrication detail, and it is priced into the slab rather than added later.

What overtakes cabinetry is never the counter. It is the work underneath a layout change: the plumbing, the electrical and the structure that a drawing moved and nobody has opened up yet.

What Moves This Answer in a Boca Raton House

In an older Boca Raton house the drain line for the kitchen sink often runs under the slab, and moving the sink a few feet is not a few feet of pipe. It is cutting concrete, exposing the line, checking what it is made of and what condition it is in, deciding whether to reconnect or replace that run, an inspection, and closing it back up. We verify that before quoting a layout change rather than assuming it. Two other things are local and both cost calendar rather than material: in a condominium the association controls the delivery of a finished cabinet run, and the season decides how tight the building's work windows are.

A trench cut into the concrete slab beside the cabinets to run a new drain, with the dust kept down by water

Every figure on this page is published, with what it covers and what it leaves out, on Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton.

Common Questions

Where does labor show up in a Boca Raton kitchen remodel estimate?

Inside each line, not beside it. The cabinetry number includes tear-out of the old run and the installation of the new one, and the countertop number includes templating and setting. A quote that lists labor separately is describing the same work twice or leaving something out.

Can the cabinetry line come down without changing the layout of a Boca Raton kitchen?

Sometimes, and the test is the boxes. If the sink base, the back corners and the stile beside the dishwasher are dry and firm, refacing replaces every door, drawer front and hinge for a fraction of a new run. If the panel gives when you press it, doors are no longer the question.

Are appliances part of the same comparison in a Boca Raton quote?

Not in ours. The bands on this page cover cabinetry and countertops as installed work, and appliances are usually bought separately by the homeowner. Comparing a quote that includes them with one that does not is the most common way two estimates stop being comparable.

Recent Kitchen Remodeling Projects in Boca Raton

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  • Upscale kitchen with tall wood cabinetry, a stone waterfall island and integrated appliances
    Full-height cabinetry and a waterfall island Luxury kitchen remodeling
  • Compact galley kitchen in a coastal condo with light shaker cabinets and a window at the end of the run
    Galley kitchen in a condo, under twenty linear feet Small kitchen remodel
  • Kitchen with new white shaker doors on the original cabinet boxes and the existing granite kept in place
    New shaker fronts on the original boxes Kitchen cabinet refacing
  • Floor-to-ceiling custom cabinetry with a tall pantry beside a panel-front refrigerator
    Floor-to-ceiling run with a tall pantry Custom cabinetry
  • Quartz countertop run with a waterfall end panel on the island and an undermount sink
    Quartz with a waterfall end on the island Quartz countertop installation
  • Kitchen with brown and gold granite countertops, a raised breakfast bar and wood cabinets
    Granite perimeter with a raised breakfast bar Granite countertop installation
  • Kitchen with counters at two heights, open knee space under the sink and pull-out shelves in an open base cabinet
    Counters at two heights, open underneath Accessible kitchen remodeling
Knowing which line is biggest is only useful if that line is itemized, and on most quotes it is not: the door style and the finish get named, and the box behind them does not. What a cabinet run is made of, what separates the three purchases inside it, and where our $18,000 floor comes from are set out on custom cabinetry in Boca Raton. Read that before you compare two numbers that look like they describe the same work.

Send us the quote you already have, not just the total.

Tell us how many feet of cabinet run your kitchen has and what the estimate says the boxes are made of. Those two answers are enough to tell you whether the biggest line on your quote is priced where it should be, before anybody visits.

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