Refacing is the remodeling industry’s middle path: keep your old cabinet boxes, put new doors and veneer on the outside, and pay somewhere between $4,000 and $10,000 in the Tampa market for the privilege. Sometimes that trade makes sense. Often the person quoting it is counting on you not knowing what new cabinets cost.
The Math Refacing Companies Skip
Our price for entirely new cabinets is public: up to 15 boxes for $5,497 installed, with new doors, new drawer boxes, new soft-close hinges and slides on everything, basic pulls, and the sales tax paid. New structure, new interiors, new hardware, not a skin over the old ones.
Set a $7,000 refacing quote next to that and the question answers itself. You would be paying more to keep your old boxes than it costs to replace them. Even at the bottom of the refacing range, the gap between “new fronts on 20-year-old boxes” and “a new kitchen for a few hundred dollars more” deserves a hard look. The manufacturer list prices behind our program are on the catalogue and pricing page if you want to check the math line by line.
Where Refacing Honestly Wins
Refacing earns its keep in one situation: truly excellent boxes, a layout you would rebuild identically anyway, and a quote well under replacement. Plywood boxes from a quality 2000s build that pass the water-and-sag inspection can carry new doors for another decade. If that is your kitchen and the number is right, take the refacing deal and enjoy it.
What refacing cannot fix is everything behind the door: swollen particle board, worn slides, sagging shelves, a corner you cannot reach. New veneer on a failing box is a countdown, not a remodel.
Get Both Numbers, Then Decide
The estimate is free, and it ends with a written number for the replacement: $5,497 up to 15 cabinets, extras itemized from the catalogue if your kitchen runs larger. Put it next to your refacing quote and decide with both numbers on the table. If your boxes genuinely deserve to stay, we will say that too.
Get your kitchen price, or see the finished installs in the gallery first.
