Kitchen Refresh is a Fast, Beautiful and Affordable alternative to kitchen, bath, bar and laundry room remodeling. We are up to 75% LESS than custom cabinets, with typical transformations completed in 5 DAYS or less.

We work with your existing cabinet boxes, and then manufacture and install all NEW doors with concealed soft-close hinges, and all NEW drawer fronts.

We can also install new countertops, backsplash, and flooring, and accommodate cabinet layout changes, cabinet additions or deletions, island additions, new drawer installations, cabinet storage upgrades, soffit extensions and much more as part of the Refresh process.

Every week, Kitchen Refresh posts a Kitchen Refresh project on our Facebook page where we break out the pricing and explain what was completed on a project. We also have our FREE online estimator, which provides transparent pricing. Also, when you complete a design consultation you will receive an itemized estimate - no gimmicks and no pressure - everyone receives the same low pricing. This is unlike some of the competition out there who first provide a high estimate and will charge you that, but if you push back, they revise their price, and then if you push back again, may revise their price yet again. With Kitchen Refresh, clients get consistent, transparent pricing every time.

Custom and semi-custom cabinets are very expensive. Plus, you have the tearout of your existing cabinets, the the labor expense of installing all new cabinets. The savings comes from using your existing cabinet boxes! By only replacing doors, drawer fronts and hardware, the reduction in costs of both time and material translates into big savings for you. This approach also enables you to keep your current countertops if you like them (although they can also be replaced, too). This saves the homeowner additional thousands!

Click here to watch a popular Midwest blogger’s experience and result in choosing Kitchen Refresh for her kitchen transformation!

We paint ONLY the cabinet BOXES, but we NEVER paint doors or drawer fronts. We always custom manufacture and install all NEW doors and drawer fronts with a durable Thermofoil finish, all NEW pull hardware, and all NEW concealed, soft-close hinges. Whereas painting doors and drawer fronts is only a cosmetic change, our approach provides an improvement in functionality. This insures you have a current door design as well as eliminates common quality and extended project timelines associated with painted doors and drawer fronts. Trust us - if painting doors and drawer fronts were the best approach - that’s the service we’d provide. Click here to read why we never paint the doors or drawer fronts.

We ALWAYS manufacture all NEW doors and drawer fronts and then coat them in your choice of one of our nearly 30 high quality standard Thermofoil finish colors, or from among the hundreds of special-order finishes you might select. Unlike painting doors and drawer fronts, which is an inferior option providing just a cosmetic change, the Kitchen Refresh approach is an improvement in your cabinet functionality.

Painting doors and drawer fronts is only a cosmetic change. Kitchen Refresh provides a true functional change to the cabinets. And, due to frequent hand, finger, fingernail and jewelry interaction with doors and drawer fronts, it is common to see scratching, scuffing and staining on the painted surfaces where the hand interacts with the knob or pull. Click here to watch a video of clients who had previously painted their cabinets. Also, people tend to underestimate how much time, work and expense is involved in trying to paint the doors and drawer fronts, and overestimate the quality of the result due to drips, runs, overly thick application, improper surface preparation, etc. The finish on the Kitchen Refresh doors is always beautiful and long lasting, and comes and the process typically takes just 5 days or less. Click here to read why we never paint the doors or drawer fronts.

All of our doors get all new concealed, soft-close hinges. We also offer soffit extensions to provide additional storage above your cabinets. We can also replace any existing drawers - one, some or all - with our soft-close drawers, and we can install cabinet box rollouts, trash rollouts, Lazy Susans, and other cabinet storage solutions. We can also modify your cabinet layout, remove peninsulas, add islands, add or remove cabinets, and add a cabinet pantry.

No. For example, a client may want an island one color and their perimeter cabinet another color. Or they may want their uppers one color and their lowers another color. We accommodate that design solution at no additional cost using any of our standard finish selections. If you choose a special order finish for one or both of the colors, then an applicable special order charge would apply.

We proudly begin with 3/4 inch, heavy duty, solid, high density engineered wood and then precision cut each one to exact specifications to custom produce the doors and drawer fronts for your cabinets. They are then coated in a durable Thermofoil finish of the color you selected at the time of your purchase. The 3/4-in. engineered wood we use makes them heavier, stronger and much more dimensionally stable than a traditional 5-piece door (meaning, no warping) AND our Thermofoil finish is much more durable than a paint or stain.

Yes! Because we always manufacture NEW doors (and drawer fronts), we can either eliminate glass doors and replace them with solid panel doors if you would rather have practical storage as opposed to decorative storage, or retain glass panels at existing door locations where you’d like to keep that look, or have additional full panel or “top light” glass doors added. Check out our seeded, reeded, frosted and other glass style options here.

No. We call our system “re-dooring.” Refacing is often deemed an outdated method and is also very close in price to full cabinet replacement. It entails cutting various laminate pieces and then gluing them to your cabinet boxes and your existing doors and drawer fronts. With Kitchen Refresh, we ALWAYS manufacture and install all NEW doors with concealed, soft-close hinges and all NEW drawer fronts. We typically see refacing estimates that are 2-3 times more expensive than our method and with lesser quality results. Refacing can also take longer, be messier, is much more intrusive, and can suffer from de-lamination of the glue and the laminate peeling away from your boxes and fronts, and unsightly alignment issues. With our method, the end result can yield a very minimally painted surface of just the boxes due to the oversizing of our pre-finished doors and drawer fronts and by also adding panel ends, and we always use high quality materials and parts.

Yes! For soft-close drawers, there is an additional charge since we manufacture new drawer boxes that fit our under-mount, universal soft-close drawer system. But, because drawers usually make up a small fraction of the total kitchen, it’s generally still very affordable to replace your drawers with our soft-close drawers. You can also replace just one drawer, multiple drawers, or all of the drawers.

The one comment we hear over and over is how pleasant the Kitchen Refresh experience is - it’s Fast, it’s Beautiful and it’s Affordable!

If you plan on ordering from a home improvement store or online, make absolutely sure you ask:

1) Are pull hardware/handles and soft-close hinges included in the price?

2) Is tear out of your old cabinets included in the price?

3) Is installation of the new cabinets included in the price?

4) If tear out and installation are not included, do they find qualified, dependable individuals who can perform that work and schedule and manage the project for you - or is that now your problem?

5) Ask to see and hold their door (they’re usually flimsy), cabinet box (also flimsy), pull hardware (often plastic or cheaply made metal) and hinges (often puny, cheaply made and aren’t soft-close) - and then compare those items to our heavy duty doors, our heavy duty, high quality, soft-close hinges, and our heavy pull hardware.

Also, when you replace your cabinets, you no longer are able to keep your existing countertops if that was your plan, so factor in that additional cost now, too, along with sink replacement, plumbing work, etc., as well as the much longer down time of your kitchen being in disarray, and usually floor replacement, too, as the new cabinets will not match the “footprint” of your old cabinets.

And, with a complete tear out, think about all the extra weeks or months of down time without your kitchen - an average gut job timeline is 3-5 months - the extra plumbing and electrical costs you may incur, and all the other “unknowns.” With us, your kitchen stays intact until the date of installation.

Yes, there are some do-it-yourself places out there where you can order your own doors and drawer fronts and install them. But if you think painting your doors and drawer fronts is a nightmare - wait until you try to tackle this task. Understand that re-dooring is a highly technical process: Getting every measurement correct, installing each and every door and drawer front correctly, having the skills and tools so they are all level and evenly spaced to the doors and drawer fronts around them, and finding the time to do it! Plus, re-dooring doesn’t address other improvements you might want to make such as cabinet additions, layout changes, cabinet storage upgrades, and more. DIY re-dooring is far too expensive to risk that you “might be able to do it” - we make it look easy because we do this every day and we’ve completed thousands of transformations!

With Kitchen Refresh, the price difference can be as much as 75% LESS than the cost of custom or semi-custom cabinetry. For example, if you are keeping your existing countertops, not changing your layout, and doing your own cabinet box painting - that will yield the most savings. Click here to visit our “Contact Us” page to see some example budget ranges and what would typically be included.

The price will vary depending on how many doors and drawer fronts you have, whether you plan to keep or replace your current countertop, and other improvements you may want to make such as new backsplash, new flooring, cabinet additions or modifications. soffit extensions, new drawer boxes, island or pantry addition, etc.

On average, however, the typical Refresh of the cabinet boxes - new doors, new drawer fronts, new pull hardware and cabinet boxes painted to coordinate with your new door finish - ranges from $6,000 to $8,000.

Adding new laminate countertop is, on average, around $2,500-$3,500 and for a quartz or other solid surface you can figure at least double that. Understand, your specific project may be lower or higher than these averages. To get an accurate price of your remodel, click here to try our FREE online estimator.

No. In fact - it’s the opposite! By using the Refresh method, you keep your better quality boxes rather than replacing them with the cheaper, thinner material of today’s builder grade cabinet boxes - PLUS we use HIGH quality products! We use a heavy, solid and SUPERIOR engineered wood door product, along with the HIGHEST quality hinges and HIGHEST quality pull hardware. We also use the most durable, high quality latex or acrylic enamel paint when refinishing the boxes. If you’ve been shopping for cabinets, you’ll notice that on new cabinetry today, to save costs, they resort to very cheap quality hinges, cheap pull hardware, and flimsy cabinet box, door and drawer construction.

No worries. We commonly manufacture and install new drawer boxes, too, with concealed under-mount slides. We can replace just the ones you want or all of them. There is an additional cost for this, but this is itemized on the estimate you receive as part of your consultation.

All doors and drawer fronts, end panels, crown moulding, and other Thermofoil products produced by Kitchen Refresh have a 5-year warranty against manufacture defect.

Yes. Unlike cabinets you buy online or from a big box store, our project estimates always include door and drawer front manufacturing AND installation.

Absolutely. As part of your Refresh project, as long as your existing cabinets - or your cabinet modifications or additions - can accommodate them, we have virtually hundreds of different organizers and accessories to make better use and function of the cabinet space you have or are adding.

In addition to the FREE invaluable design consultation (a $1,200 value), your kitchen transformation will include manufacture and installation of new doors and drawer fronts, all new concealed soft-close hinges, and all new door and drawer pulls, and a new finish on the cabinet boxes. Any additional work you want will also be itemized in your estimate you receive from your design consultant.

The installer doing your cabinet work or other preferred contractors your teams works with can help coordinate price quotes for those changes along with your Refresh transformation.

Yes. Because we manufacture and install all NEW doors and drawer fronts, you can select from any of the nearly 30 standard or hundreds of special order finishes we offer. We then paint ONLY the cabinet boxes to coordinate with your new door finish. We paint all primarily visible areas of the cabinetry, and we do not move appliances (to avoid damage to floors). Our system satisfies the most discriminating homeowners.

Yes. In fact, we supply a full material list and instructions if you choose to do so. Clients save about $800 to $1,200 by painting the cabinet boxes themselves. Then we come in and complete the Refresh process by installing all NEW doors and drawer fronts.

We are able to accommodate a variety of layout changes, additions and removals - but the highest savings comes from keeping your current cabinet configuration or limiting layout changes as much as possible. Not sure if your project is right for our method that could save you thousands? No worries - just contact us and let us review your project - we love having the opportunity to see if we're a good fit and our consultations and estimates are always FREE and no pressure!

We commonly add islands, fill in pencil desk areas, add or remove cabinet boxes, add wall pantries, utilize soffit areas above the upper cabinet boxes to add additional cabinet space, upgrade or remove appliance garages, and upgrade cabinets to glass panel doors.

Whether your home is a beginner home or a high-end home over the million-dollar price point, our method has been the solution of choice - in addition to also being installed in rental properties, and commercial, business, nonprofit and church properties.

From the time your order is placed for all your custom doors and drawer fronts, to the day it is installed, it's typically about 6-8 weeks but it can run 10-12 weeks or more, depending on current demand for Kitchen Refresh services in your market. In typical scenarios, that’s 5-7 weeks where it’s in the manufacture queue and then delivery to the design location handling your install, and then another 1-5 days for box painting and door installation.

Your kitchen stays fully intact and usable right up until your project begins in those final 1-5 days. Having custom work, new countertop and backsplash, new flooring, cabinet additions, etc. can add several additional days to the timeline.

Your kitchen stays completely intact and usable up until the day of installation. That is one of the greatest aspects of Kitchen Refresh that our clients really appreciate vs. a fully gutted kitchen that can remain unusable for months. Then, typically, painting takes just a day-and-a-half, and then we allow one or two days for curing, and then door and drawer install is done in less than a business day, usually around 4-6 hours. If you have layout changes, cabinet box modifications or deletions, floor work, etc., this can alter the timeline.

All appliances remain in place. All items in cabinets also typically remain in place. Only contents of drawers need to be removed and only on the day of install.

The actual installation of the doors and drawer fronts is typically about 4-6 hours. Painting of the existing cabinet boxes will add another day or two depending on the size of your kitchen, plus one or two days of curing time.

Unlike so many building projects, clients often describe the Kitchen Refresh process as a pleasant experience and that is because the entirety of your home, including your kitchen, remains undisturbed until the day of painting and installation.

For a standard Refresh, your kitchen will typically remain fully functional throughout the entire process. Our installer only requires that the items in your drawers be removed on the day of installation.

With a standard Refresh, it is virtually none. There may be an extremely small amount of saw dust from minor drilling for hinge installation. However, the installers we work with are responsible for thoroughly cleaning up any dust or debris created.

Most people do not detect anything other than the very low odor of what is normally present with painting with latex paint by hand with a brush, and which dissipates quickly. The new doors and drawers have no odor. We use commonly available products and materials labeled safe for home use, and which are used in the industry by other contractors, vendors, manufacturers and homeowners. Locations generally use a Sherwin Williams paint system, but that may vary by location due to supply chain issues. If you would like more detailed information, please reference the material safety data sheets of the following: M1 Deglosser, Sherwin Williams Preprite Problock primer, Sherwin Williams ProClassic interior acrylic enamel or latex paint, Thermofoil, the Thermofoil adhesive, and the engineered fibreboard. Some locations may use variations of these items, in which case you will want to check with them directly for MSDS information.

No. We can transform virtually any cabinet: built-in wall cabinets, bathroom cabinets, laundry room cabinets, bar areas, garage cabinets - you name it!

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