Kitchen cabinet replacement in Plano

Refacing keeps your current cabinet boxes. You get new doors and drawer fronts, plus new veneer or panels on the front frames and exposed sides. Hinges, pulls and drawer slides are usually updated too.

Refacing works well when the boxes are sound, the layout suits you, and your counters are staying.

Replacing means new boxes as well as new doors. It's the better choice when boxes are damaged or sagging, or when you want a different setup, like drawers instead of base doors, or new heights or depths.

It also makes sense if you're replacing countertops anyway. Stone and quartz tops are hard to lift and reuse without cracking. At the site visit, we'll look at your cabinets and give you a straight answer either way.

Most cabinet boxes are plywood or particleboard. Plywood holds screws well and handles moisture better at the edges, which matters most under the sink. Good particleboard with a durable finish is common and costs less, but it doesn't recover well once it gets wet. Many homeowners use plywood for the sink base and particleboard elsewhere.

Framed cabinets have a solid frame around the front of each box, and the doors mount to that frame. Frameless cabinets (often called European style) skip the frame. The doors cover the whole box, and drawers are a bit wider inside. Framed tends to suit traditional kitchens. Frameless gives a cleaner, modern line.

Cabinets also come as stock, semi-custom or custom. Stock cabinets come in set sizes and fewer finishes. Semi-custom lines offer more sizes and options. Custom cabinets are built to exact measurements. Lead times vary by line and maker, and we confirm them before we schedule any work.

Before you pick a door style, walk through what lives in your kitchen. Where do the heavy pots go? Where do baking sheets, lunch supplies or pet food end up? Full-extension drawers in base cabinets are often more useful than doors with shelves, because you see everything when the drawer opens. Soft-close hinges and slides are standard in many lines now.

Upper cabinets that run to the ceiling add storage and get rid of the dusty gap on top. Save the highest shelves for things you rarely use. Corner units, tray dividers and pull-out trash bins each solve one specific problem. We'll help you pick the ones that match your habits instead of adding every accessory in the catalog.