Refacing Cabinets in Sacramento

Refacing starts with new doors and drawer fronts in the style, wood species, or finish you choose — shaker, raised-panel, or slab profiles, painted or stained. We match veneer to any exposed cabinet ends, the sides of the island, and any visible box faces so nothing looks patched together. New hardware — pulls, hinges, and often soft-close mechanisms — gets installed at the same time, which alone changes how the kitchen feels day to day.

Because the existing boxes stay in place, refacing doesn't touch your layout, plumbing, or electrical. If a box has a warped face frame or a drawer track that's failing, we'll flag it and repair or replace that specific piece rather than rebuilding the whole cabinet — refacing is selective, not all-or-nothing.

We also handle the small details that make a kitchen look reface-quality instead of reface-obvious: consistent reveal gaps between doors, properly aligned drawer fronts, and finish that matches across every visible surface, not just the new doors.

Most refacing jobs run 3 to 5 days once materials arrive, since we're not demoing boxes or rerouting plumbing and electrical. The bulk of the lead time is upfront — ordering doors, drawer fronts, and veneer in your selected finish, which typically takes a couple of weeks before installation even starts.

Installation itself is straightforward: existing doors and drawer fronts come off, box faces get veneered and finished, then new doors, fronts, and hardware go on and get adjusted for even reveals and smooth operation. Your kitchen stays usable for most of the process since the boxes and their contents never leave the room.

Refacing is the right fit if your cabinet boxes are solid — no swelling, sagging, or water damage — and you're happy with the current layout. If the finish is dated or peeling but the structure underneath is fine, refacing gets you a new kitchen look for meaningfully less than replacement.

It's the wrong fit if you want to change the layout, add storage, or if the boxes themselves are the problem. Particleboard boxes that are swelling, sagging shelves, or drawers that have pulled apart at the joints are structural issues refacing won't fix — that points to Stock/Semi-Custom or Fully Custom replacement instead.

It's also worth stepping up to Stock/Semi-Custom if you're on the fence about layout. Once we're evaluating the boxes during a reface consultation, it sometimes becomes clear that a different configuration would serve the kitchen better — at that point, full replacement is the more honest recommendation, even though it costs more.