Cabinet Refacing for Columbus, OH Kitchens

Cabinet refacing replaces the doors, drawer fronts and exposed cabinet surfaces of an existing kitchen while keeping the original cabinet boxes and layout in place, which delivers a new-looking kitchen in a fraction of the time a full replacement takes.

For most Columbus kitchens built in the last thirty years, the boxes are the part that aged best. Plywood and solid frames hold up. The door profile, the finish and the hardware are what date a kitchen, and those are exactly the parts refacing replaces. You end up with every surface you see and touch being new, at roughly half the cost of tearing the room out.

What Cabinet Refacing Includes

A refacing project from this team covers the full visible surface of the cabinetry:

• New doors and drawer fronts in your chosen style, color and material
• Matching material on face frames, cabinet ends and every exposed panel, so the boxes look new
• New soft-close hinges throughout
• New handles and knobs in your chosen finish
• Optional additions we quote separately: new drawer boxes with undermount glides, roll-out shelving, countertops, backsplash tile and under-cabinet lighting

How the Project Runs

1. Consultation and measure. A designer comes to the house, measures every opening, checks the condition of the boxes and confirms refacing is the right call. You see door samples and finishes in your own light. You leave with a written quote, usually the same visit.
2. Selections and templating. You lock in door style, color, hardware and any extras. We template the kitchen so every door matches the actual opening.
3. Build. The factory manufactures your doors and materials to those measurements. This takes three to five weeks and sets the pace of the whole schedule.
4. Installation. Three to five days on site. We protect the work area before we start and clean it at the end of each day. Your sink and appliances stay usable for most of it.
5. Walkthrough. We go through the kitchen together, adjust anything that needs adjusting and confirm you are happy before we invoice the balance.

What Cabinet Refacing Costs in Columbus

Most refacing projects in this market run $10,000 to $40,000. Three things move the number more than anything else:

• Cabinet count. Pricing tracks the number of doors and drawer fronts, so a galley kitchen and a large island kitchen are different projects.
• Door material. Laminate and thermofoil sit at the lower end. Painted MDF sits in the middle. Solid wood in maple, oak or cherry sits at the top.
• What comes with it. Countertops, backsplash tile, new drawer boxes and lighting each carry their own line item, and most projects take at least one of them.

The written quote you get after the in-home measure is the price we hold to. If something unexpected turns up behind a cabinet, you get options and a price before we proceed.

When We Recommend Replacing Instead

Refacing suits a specific set of conditions. We recommend custom cabinetry or a full remodel instead when:

• Cabinet boxes are swelling, delaminating or water damaged, typically under the sink
• Frames have pulled apart at the joints or the boxes are out of square
• You need storage the current footprint cannot hold
• The layout is the problem rather than the finish

Scoping the job correctly at the consultation is what keeps a refaced kitchen looking right five years later. Your designer would rather price the larger project up front than return for a service call on a kitchen that needed replacing.

Door Styles and Finishes

Kitchen Tune-Up’s door selection covers shaker, raised panel, recessed panel, slab and beaded profiles across painted, stained and matte finishes. In Columbus the requests that come up most are white and off-white shaker, natural maple, and two-tone kitchens pairing a painted perimeter with a darker island. Your designer brings physical samples to the consultation, because paint colors read differently under your own lighting than they do on a screen.