Top Shelf Cabinet & Design
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Top Shelf Cabinet & Design
Cabinetry

Cabinet Refacing
When the boxes are sound and only the look is dated.

Keep the boxes, replace every door, drawer front, and visible surface. A new kitchen in about a week.

If your cabinet boxes are plywood, square, and solidly attached, you may be paying to throw away the most boring and most durable part of your kitchen. Refacing replaces every door and drawer front, veneers every visible surface of the box, and updates the hardware and hinges — so what you look at is entirely new, and what you do not look at stays where it is.

It is not the right answer for every kitchen. If the layout is wrong, the boxes are particleboard, or the run has water damage under the sink, refacing puts a new face on a bad problem. We will tell you which one you have on the first visit.

Cabinet Refacing completed by Top Shelf Cabinet & Design in South Florida
What's included

What you get when you hire us for cabinet refacing.

  • Honest assessment of whether your boxes are worth keeping
  • New doors and drawer fronts in any species, style, or paint color
  • Matching veneer on every visible box surface, including end panels
  • New soft-close hinges and full-extension drawer glides
  • Optional new drawer boxes inside the existing openings
  • Crown, light rail, and toe kick updated to match
How it goes

From the first visit to the punch list.

Seven steps, in order, every time. You always know which one you are in.

Step 01

The first visit

Vincent comes out, measures the room, and looks at what you already have. If your boxes are worth keeping he will tell you so, even though refacing is the smaller job. You get a straight read on what the space can do.

Step 02

Design and drawings

We draw the room in 3D — elevations you can actually read, not a rendering with fake pendant lights. You see cabinet heights, drawer configurations, and where every filler lands before anything is ordered.

Step 03

Materials in your light

Door samples, finish samples, and hardware come to your house. Showroom lighting lies. A white that looks warm in the showroom can read grey under your north-facing window, and you should find that out now.

Step 04

A real calendar

At contract you get dates, not a range — order date, expected delivery, install week, template day, countertop install. If a supplier slips, you hear it from us in writing the day we hear it.

Questions

Cabinet Refacing — the questions we get most.

How is refacing different from refinishing?
Refinishing keeps your existing doors and changes their color. Refacing throws the doors away and gives you new ones, which means you can also change the door style — from raised panel to shaker, for example. Refinishing is the cheaper path; refacing is the one that actually changes the look of the kitchen.
How do I know if my boxes are worth keeping?
Open a door and look at the edge of the box. Plywood shows layers; particleboard shows compressed chips. Then check under the sink for swelling and press on a shelf for sag. We do this check on the first visit and we will talk you out of refacing if the boxes do not deserve it.
Can I change my layout while refacing?
Only in small ways. We can convert a base cabinet to drawers, add a pull-out, or swap a door swing. Moving a wall, relocating the sink, or changing the footprint means new cabinetry — at that point refacing stops making sense.

Ready to talk about cabinet refacing?

Vincent does the first visit himself. He measures, he looks at what you already have, and he tells you straight what the room can do — including when the answer is less work than you expected. No charge for that visit.

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