Kitchen Cabinet Replacement in Vaughan — When the Boxes Have to Go
The job refacing and painting both avoid. Everything comes out and new cabinetry goes in, which is the right answer far less often than people expect.
From $18,000
Cabinetry supplied and fitted
4–6 weeks
Signed contract to installed cabinetry
5 years
On the cabinetry. One on the fitting
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The ranges
Four door styles, and a hundred and twenty kitchens behind them
Every range we fit, grouped by the door rather than by who makes it. Pick a look before anyone quotes anything — it costs nothing and it shortens the conversation considerably.
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Shaker
The most asked-for door, in white, grey and MDF or solid wood.
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Slim & double shaker
A narrower frame, and the double-shaker profile, where a plain shaker reads too flat.
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Flat slab
No frame and no profile, in matte or gloss. Matte holds fingerprints far less; gloss makes a small kitchen read larger.
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Wood grain
Oak and walnut textures, for a kitchen that should not read as painted.
What replacing the cabinets actually means
The boxes come out and new ones go in. That is the line between this and everything else we do. Painting changes the colour of the doors you own. Refacing gives you new doors on the boxes you own. This replaces the cabinetry itself, which is why it costs what it costs and why the room comes apart to do it.
What it does not mean is a new kitchen in the sense most people use the phrase. The layout stays where it is. Walls do not move, the sink stays on the wall it is on, and the window is where it always was. If the room fights you when you cook, new cabinetry in the same positions will not fix that — that is a renovation, and it is a different trade holding the contract.
The honest version is narrow and worth saying plainly: this is a cabinetry job, done properly, in a room whose shape is already right.
When replacing is right, and when it is not
There are three reasons to replace rather than reface, and only three that hold up.
The boxes have failed. Swollen at the base from a slow leak, shelves bowed past saving, back panels gone soft, or a run that has dropped out of square. A new door on a failing box is money spent on the part that was not broken.
The sizes are wrong. Refacing keeps every opening exactly where it is. If you need a wider run for a dishwasher, a taller cabinet for a built-in oven, or a bank of drawers where there is currently a cupboard with a shelf in it, the openings themselves have to change, and that means new cabinetry.
The kitchen is frameless and the doors are not available. Some older systems cannot take a made-to-measure door without looking wrong, and forcing one is a compromise you will see every day.
If none of those three describes your kitchen, you are probably looking at the wrong service, and we will tell you that before quoting rather than after. It costs us the bigger job and it saves you the bigger bill.
Where the cabinets come from
We do not manufacture cabinetry, and a company that tells you otherwise is describing somebody else's factory as its own.
On most jobs the cabinetry comes from a manufacturer we buy from as a dealer. It is frameless, European-style, built from 18mm board, and it arrives flat — soft-close runners and six-way adjustable hinges already on it, which is worth knowing, because those hinges are a paid line on a refacing quote and here they are not. We assemble every box ourselves before any of it goes near your wall.
You do not have to take that on trust, or wait for a quote to see it. The [kitchen cabinets catalogue](/kitchen-catalogue/) has a hundred and twenty finished kitchens in the ranges we fit, grouped by door style — shaker, slim shaker, matte and gloss slab, wood grain. Find the one you want and tell us which, and it goes on the written price with the rest of the work.
The other route is for kitchens whose doors want to be something a catalogue does not carry. There we buy the boxes in and the doors are made here and sprayed in our booth, in the same catalysed 2K polyurethane that goes onto a refaced kitchen. That is the part of this trade we genuinely do ourselves, and it is the reason a painting company and a cabinet company both have to subcontract something on a job like this and we do not.
Which route your kitchen takes is our call, made on what the job needs. It does not change what you pay or what you are covered for, which is the only reason it is fair for us to decide it rather than you.
What is ours, and what belongs to your other trades
This is the part most quotes leave vague, so here it is in order.
- The old kitchen comes out. We do this, and it is quoted as its own line rather than buried in the total.
- The new cabinetry is assembled and installed. Levelled, scribed to walls that are never as straight as they look, and set so the doors sit true.
- The countertop is templated. Not before — the fabricator measures the cabinets that are actually in the room, because a slab cut to drawings does not fit the kitchen it arrives at.
- Appliances, plumbing, electrical. Your trades, after the stone.
Our part ends at step two. Four to six weeks gets you installed cabinetry, not a working kitchen, and the gap between those two things belongs to people we do not schedule. We would rather be clear about that in a quote than optimistic about it on the phone and wrong about it in your house.
If you have a general contractor, we work inside their programme and they hold the dates. If you do not, we will tell you what has to happen in what order so you can book it.
The warranty
Five years on the cabinetry and the fronts. One year on the installation.
That is genuinely less than our refacing warranty, and we would rather explain it than hope you do not notice. Refaced doors carry longer cover because we make them — the material and the finish are both ours and we know exactly what they do over time. Manufactured cabinetry carries the manufacturer's term, and ours sits on top of the fitting.
What each term actually covers is worth spelling out, because "five years" on its own tells you nothing. The five covers the cabinetry and the fronts against defects in materials and workmanship. The one covers the fitting — levelling, scribes, a door that stops sitting true — which are the faults that come from how a kitchen was hung rather than how it was made. Neither covers wear from daily use, water damage, or a door somebody reversed a vacuum cleaner into.
Anything that does go wrong comes back through us. You will not be handed a phone number in another country and wished luck.
Replacing is the most expensive answer to a question most kitchens are not asking
Most of the kitchens we are called out to look at do not need replacing. The boxes are square, dry and firmly fixed, and what is actually wrong is the colour of the doors or a profile that dates the room — and both of those are fixed for a third of the money without the room ever coming apart. Working out whether the boxes are the problem at all is the first question, not the last one, and the page above this one sets refacing against replacement on cost, weeks and mess.
What it costs
From $18,000, and there is no upper figure.
That is the cabinetry, assembled and fitted. It is a starting point rather than a typical price, and it moves on three things: how many cabinets there are, which door you choose, and how much of the kitchen has to be made to measure rather than taken from standard sizes. A large kitchen in a solid timber door runs a long way past the figure above, and quoting a ceiling we could not stand behind would be a worse answer than admitting there is not one.
Taking the old kitchen out is quoted separately. So are hardware upgrades, millwork and any countertop we coordinate. That is deliberate and it works in your favour: a line you can see is a line you can remove, which is not true of a single number with everything folded into it.
For comparison, and because the question always comes: refacing the kitchen you already have runs $8,000 to $15,000, and a full renovation that moves the layout runs $25,000 to $40,000 once trades, countertops and finishing are counted. This sits between them on purpose, because it is a smaller job than a renovation and a bigger one than new doors.
The price you are quoted is the price you pay. It follows photographs by 24 hours and it does not move afterwards.
Questions
Common questions about replacing kitchen cabinets in Vaughan
- What does $18,000 actually buy?
- The cabinetry, assembled and fitted — boxes, doors, drawers, hinges and runners, set level and scribed to your walls. It does not buy the countertop, the appliances, the plumbing or the electrical, and it does not include taking the old kitchen out, which is quoted as its own line so you can see it and decide on it separately.
- Is there an upper price?
- No, and we would rather say so than invent one. Cabinet count, door choice and the amount of made-to-measure work move this a long way, and a large kitchen in a solid timber door can run several times the starting figure. Painting and refacing are quoted as ranges with a top; this one honestly is not.
- How long before I can use my kitchen again?
- That is not ours to promise, and anyone who does is guessing. Four to six weeks takes us from a signed contract to cabinetry installed — but the countertop cannot be templated until our boxes are in and settled, and the appliances, plumbing and electrical all follow the stone. Those are your trades on their own schedules. We will tell you where our part ends and when, which is the part we control.
- Who actually makes the cabinets?
- Not us, and that is worth being straight about. On most jobs the cabinetry comes from a manufacturer we buy from as a dealer — it arrives flat and we assemble and install it. On jobs where the doors want to be something the catalogue does not do, we buy the boxes in and make the doors here, sprayed in the same 2K polyurethane that goes on a refaced kitchen. Which route your kitchen takes is our decision and it does not change your price or your warranty.
- What is the warranty?
- Five years on the cabinetry and the fronts, and one year on the installation. Anything that goes wrong comes back through us rather than to a manufacturer you have never dealt with — one contract and one number to call, which is most of what a warranty is worth in practice.
- Is this cheaper than a kitchen renovation?
- It is a smaller job, which is not the same thing. A full renovation moves the layout and brings in walls, plumbing and electrical, and lands at $25,000 to $40,000 once trades, countertops and finishing are counted. We replace the cabinetry and leave the room where it is, which is why the figure starts lower — you are buying one trade rather than five.
- Do you do the whole renovation?
- No. Cabinetry is what we supply and fit, and we are better value because that is all we do. If your kitchen needs walls moved, plumbing rerouted or floors laid, you want a general contractor holding that contract, and we will work to their schedule inside it.
Not sure the boxes need replacing at all?
Send wide photographs of every run of cabinet and say what is bothering you about the room. The written price comes back inside 24 hours, and if the answer is that refacing the kitchen you already have would do it for a third of the money, that is what it will say.
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