When we bought our masonry CYV in 2011 it had been reduced twice, so the price and location was great. We really bought it sight-unseen over the telephone with our Villages Sales Rep. Once we got into the house, the cabinets were the worse I had ever seen, unfinished maple is what they were called. We had just remodeled our previous kitchen 3 years earlier with white cabinets, and I love looking at white kitchen when I get up in the morning.
By 2013 we had put in a backsplash, plantation shutters and wood floors and the kitchen still looked drab. We had Investment Painters do the interior of our home before we moved in, so I called them. A 10 X 10 kitchen like ours was $1000 for them to repaint. I thought that was worth it rather than try and tackle it myself. I then went to Remington Kitchens in Leesburg who advertised kitchen refacing.
All the doors and drawers were removed and replaced with new ones in white thermofoil with new hand pulls and the base cabinets were covered in white formica and white crown molding was added. Total cost $4800. So we decided to go with the refacing since we planned that this would be our last house.
The kitchen really looked much better and after we replaced the white appliances with stainless steel, I happy with the results.
Here is the original kitchen, the photo is not the best, but you get the idea. Unfortunately Remington Kitchens have since closed since the owner has retired. I have read that Doc's Restorations has been advertising refacing and the prices seemed about the same. They do great work, my neighbor had his whole inside of his villa redone by Doc's.
Here it is now, but have since replaced the sink and faucet since this photo.
New 33" stainless steel sink and sprayer faucet.