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At McManus Kitchen and Bath our goal is provide a wide range of products and services to fit most peoples kitchen and bathroom remodeling needs and budget. One of those services is called Cabinet Refacing. Cabinet refacing can be a great way to update the look and function of your kitchen quickly and more economically than traditional cabinet replacement.

Our cabinet refacing system includes:

• Replacing you cabinet doors and drawer fronts with new, solid wood doors and drawer fronts.
  • this allows you to change the color and style of your cabinets (more that 40 colors 34 styles to choose from)
  • We can also replace your drawer boxes, including soft close slides, add organizers and customize you cabinets
• Replacing the Crown Molding, Toe Kick, 1/4 round and other trims
  • We have a variety of trim styles to chose from
• Applying 1/4″ panels to the rest of your cabinets and face frames
  • We use solid wood panels, not cheap veneers like many refacing provider

When your refacing project is complete, the entire exterior of your cabinets are all new, high quality wood finishes and trims.

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Our Refacing Supplier

We get our refacing materials from Cabinet Cures of Portland OR. They have have been providing refacing materials for more than 20 years to dealers all over the US. We are not a franchise and pay no franchise fees or marketing fees to Cabinet Cures. We are not required by contract to sell only Cabinet Cures products, we choose to use Cabinet Cures because we believe they are the best provider of refacing materials in the US.

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Comparing to New Cabinets

We carry cabinets from Fabuwood and Yorketowne. We also plan to add Jay Rambo cabinets in the near future. Yorketowne cabinets are made in the USA and offer semi-custom and custom cabinets.

Fabuwood is a imported cabinet that comes in stock sizes. We chose Fabuwood for the quality of their finished and hardware. They are a great quality cabinet at a very good price point but their doors styles and custom options are limited.

Yorketowne cabinets have a much wider selection of colors, door styles and sizes as well as many custom options. They cost about 30 percent more than Fabuwood cabinets

Jay Rambo, a full custom line, cost about 70 percent more but they can literally make your wildest cabinet dreams come true.

Which cabinets to compare refacing to?

So the challenge in comparing refacing to replacing is deciding which cabinet line to compare it to.

Refacing will typically be 20% less than new Fabuwood Cabinets but can be 40% less than Yorketowne and 100% less than Jay Rambo cabinetry.

Cabinet Refacing vs New Cabinets

Things to consider:

Cost 

• A typical medium sized kitchen, like the one pictured above, costs $12,000 – $15,000 to reface, including a few custom options like pullouts and organizers.
• New Fabuwood cabinets, for the same kitchen would cost $18,000 – $20,000,installed. But that is just for the cabinets.
• With new cabinets you also have to replace the counter tops, sink and faucet as well as pay for removal of the existing cabinets. That increases the cost to $25,000 – $30,000.

Time 

• Most cabinet refacing projects are complete within a week.
• New cabinets can take 3 – 5 weeks or more, depending on the extent of the repair work needed after the demo is complete and the lead time on your new counter tops.

Lifestyle Disruption

• With refacing there is very little disruption to your daily routine. All work is done in house by our team, and there is no real demo needed. Your counter tops and appliances stay in place and you can keep using your kitchen throughout the process.
• When we replace cabinets we do an excellent job of controlling dust and managing the schedule so that it minimizes the disruption to your daily routine (we call this livable remodeling). But you do lose the use of your kitchen for the entire project and more sub contractors are needed.

So Which is Better?

When we come out to give you an estimate we will discuss your options with you and help you decide which is the best solution for your needs. There are times when refacing is clearly the best and others when new cabinets are the way to go. But often the decision falls into a grey area the really depends your budget and you goals for the project and your home.

When refacing is the perfect option

There are situations when cabinet refacing is your very best option, these include:

• You are not changing the existing cabinet layout
• You want to keep you existing counter tops
• You don’t want to go thru the mess and disruption of cabinet replacement

When New Cabinets are Better

• You want to change the layout of your kitchen – with refacing you can make minor layout changes but significant changes require a lot of custom modifications and that can get expensive.
• You cabinet boxes or frames are in poor condition or are not made from good quality material

When it’s hard to say which is better

Sometimes its harder to say whether you should refacing or replace your cabinets. One of the main advantage of cabinet refacing is how quick it can be done and that it does not require removing your counter tops or appliances. If you are already planning to replace those items anyway, replacing your cabinets could be a better option depending on your goals.

• If you are replacing your counter tops and flooring anyway. – if you are already planning to replace your counter tops, flooring or other items as part of your project then the decision become a little harder. We would recommend doing an estimate for each and looking at both options.

Thank you for reading! If you think refacing cabinets is the best route for you check out our process