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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I would compare replacing the cabinets with new cabinets as part of your pricing options, instead of painting or refacing. It may not be as expensive as you think, and you will get exactly what you want.
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It's just as expensive as you might think. In 2008 in my previous home in Baltimore I did just what you suggested, new cabinets. In fact it was a total gut job of the entire first floor of my home. I replaced everything. The kitchen here in TV was 10 x 10, the previous kitchen with photos below was 10 x 15 with 10' island.
They were higher grade cabinets, they all had self closing, no thermofoil but painted shaker cabinets. The hand pulls were longer 12" to 18". I bought the cabinets at a building supply house used by contractors and they were $6600 in 2008. I had to have new granite countertops since I could not reuse the old tops, these were level 1 granite (Santa Cecilia), which is lowest grade at $30 a sf installed, that was about $2500, today level 1 is probably $40 to $45 sf installed
The part I wanted to point out was a comparison in all the prices, repainting by Investment would of been $1,000. The refacing I had done was $4800, photos in the previous post. If I had gone that route here with new higher grade cabinets, hand pulls and granite countertops, it would probably come in about $10,000. Now labor has to be added to that price. I would estimate one day of demo work, two days of installation, then one day for the granite installer with the sink, and then one day of finishing the details. Probably $5,000. Another facet was with refacing I was able to keep my existing backsplash, where new cabinets would required that to be redone as well.
The job below was $21,000 which involved the entire 1000' sf of the first floor. They completely knocked out a wall between the kitchen and dining room, in fact the photo below could not have been taken before because a wall was there. They demolished the entire kitchen and relocated the old cabinets to the garage wall. The A/C ducts to second floor had to rerouted since they were inside the wall that was removed, which require removing the subfloor in the dining room so they could reroute the ducts and build a faux wall on the otherside of the dining room. They redid all the drywall in the kitchen and dining room walls and ceilings and installed recessed lights. Also 1000 sf of wood floors were installed. The entire job took two men fulltime working for five weeks.
