Cabinet Refacing in Aurora — The Boxes Stay, the Fronts Change
Same crew, same booth, same fixed price. What changes between one Aurora kitchen and the next is the door count and the state of the boxes, and nothing else.
Fixed price
From photographs, inside 24 hours
5 days
Without a kitchen, of four to five weeks
15 years
On waterproof MDF doors
4.9
Rated on Google
Refacing in Aurora
Aurora's older streets around Yonge and Wellington run to solid-built kitchens from the eighties and nineties — plywood boxes, real timber doors, and a colour nobody would choose now.
That split — solidly built and outdated, or newly built and already dated — turns up on most calls we take here, and both are exactly the case refacing exists for. The boxes are almost never the problem, in either kind of Aurora kitchen. A plywood or solid carcass screwed level to a wall does not wear out in twenty years whether it went up in 1988 or 2015; what wears is the door, the drawer front and the hinge, and a colour dates faster than either.
Where we recommend it most often here is exactly that kind of kitchen, in either part of town — a box that has clearly outlasted its doors. Where we steer people toward something else is a kitchen whose real complaint is the layout, not the finish: a run that is a step too short, an island wedged in after the fact. No new door front moves a wall, on Yonge Street or off Bayview.
Aurora's two kitchens
The town splits cleanly into two ages of kitchen, and which one you have decides most of what a quote looks like. The older stock around Yonge and Wellington was built properly the first time — solid carcasses, real timber doors, hinges rated for decades rather than years — so the fronts come off clean and the boxes rarely need anything beyond a fresh coat inside. The newer subdivisions east of Bayview are a different job entirely: the boxes are barely ten years old, still square, and the only thing dating the kitchen is a door style that has moved on since it was built. Neither needs replacing. Both need the fronts redone, and the price comes down to how many there are.
Where Aurora catches people out is assuming the older kitchens are the harder job. They usually are not — timber holds a finish better than the particle board and laminate that came later, and a well-built eighties box is often easier to spray clean than a newer one that has already had a cheap refinish tried on it once.
What a written price is actually pricing
Refacing is quoted on the door and drawer count and the days the job takes on site — not on square footage, not on the neighbourhood, and not on whether the house is on Yonge Street or five minutes off it. A kitchen with the same count costs the same wherever it sits. What moves the number is what is on the doors already: a kitchen painted once before needs degreasing before anything sprayed on it will hold, and a kitchen kept waxed for fifteen years needs a solvent pass first for the same reason. Neither shows up in a photograph, which is why the written price sometimes differs from a guess made over the phone.
Send wide photographs of every run — not close-ups — and the written price follows inside 24 hours. From there the doors come off and go to the shop for about four weeks while the kitchen keeps working, then five days of containment, spraying and rehanging finishes it. A walkthrough happens before anything is signed off, and the cupboards go back to use that same evening once it is cured.
If a kitchen turns out to be the wrong candidate — boxes that have taken water, or a layout that is the actual complaint rather than the doors — that gets said before a price does, not after one.
The work does not change because the postcode does
Nothing about the method changes between Aurora and anywhere else we work. The doors are made to your openings, the boxes are sprayed rather than wrapped, the finish is catalysed 2K, and the price is fixed from photographs before anyone visits. What changes is the driving. Reading why the boxes almost never need replacing is the fastest way to understand what you would actually be buying, and it applies here without amendment.
Questions
Common questions about cabinet refacing in Aurora
- Do you cover Aurora, or is it out of the way?
- It is a normal run, not a special trip — the service area is Vaughan and the GTA and it follows where the van already goes. Nothing about Aurora adds a travel line to the quote.
- Are the older Yonge Street kitchens harder to reface than newer ones?
- Usually the opposite. Solid timber doors from the eighties hold a finish better than the particle-board fronts that came after them, and a box that was built properly the first time gives us less to correct before spraying.
- How does the price get set without a visit?
- From wide photographs of every run of cabinet, not close-up shots. That produces a written price inside 24 to 48 hours, itemised rather than a single figure, and it is not revised once you have it.
- How long is the kitchen actually out of use?
- Five days out of a four-to-five week project. Everything before that week is the doors being built at the shop while your kitchen keeps working normally.
- What happens if a set of boxes is not worth refacing?
- We say so before you have paid for anything but the photographs. A swollen base, a racked frame, chipboard gone soft — refacing over a box like that is a bad trade for you regardless of what it would do for us.
Wondering what your Aurora kitchen would cost?
Send wide photographs of every run of cabinet and a written price comes back inside 24 hours, which does not change afterwards. If refacing is the wrong call for your boxes, that is the first thing you will hear.
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