Kitchen Cabinet Replacement in Oakville — New Boxes, Same Room
The one job refacing and painting exist to spare you. The old cabinetry comes out and new cabinetry goes in — and most kitchens we see do not actually need it.
From $18,000
Cabinetry supplied and installed
4–6 weeks
From signed contract to cabinets in
5 years
On the cabinetry. One on the install
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The ranges
Four door styles, and a hundred and twenty kitchens to choose from
Every range we fit, sorted by door style rather than by manufacturer. Choosing a look before the quote costs nothing and makes the quote faster.
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Shaker
The door people ask for most, in white or grey, MDF or solid wood.
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Slim & double shaker
A thinner frame, or the double-shaker profile when a plain shaker looks too flat.
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Flat slab
No frame, no profile, matte or gloss. Matte hides fingerprints; gloss opens up a small room.
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Wood grain
Oak and walnut textures, for a kitchen that should look like timber rather than paint.
What cabinet replacement involves
Your existing cabinets come out and new ones go in. That is what separates this from everything else we do. Painting recolours the doors you have. Refacing puts new doors on the boxes you have. Replacement changes the boxes themselves, which is why it costs more and why the room has to come apart.
It is not a new kitchen in the renovation sense. The layout does not change: walls stay put, the sink stays where it is, the window stays where it is. If the way the kitchen works is the problem, new cabinets in the same spots will not solve it — that is a renovation, and a different trade should run it.
Put simply, this is cabinetry work, done well, in a kitchen whose layout already suits you.
When replacement makes sense, and when it does not
Only three situations genuinely call for replacing rather than refacing.
The boxes are failing. Swelling at the base from a slow leak, sagging shelves, soft back panels, or a run that has drifted out of square. Putting new doors on a failing box spends money on the part that was fine.
The cabinet sizes need to change. Refacing keeps every opening where it is. Making room for a dishwasher, a wall oven or a stack of drawers where a shelf cupboard now sits means changing the openings — and that means new cabinets.
The kitchen is frameless and doors cannot be sourced. Some older systems will not take a made-to-measure door without looking wrong, and living with that compromise is worse than replacing.
If your kitchen fits none of these, replacement is probably not what you need, and we will say so before we quote. We lose the larger job; you keep the larger sum.
Where your new cabinets come from
We are not a cabinet factory, and any installer claiming to be one is usually describing someone else's plant.
Most of our cabinetry comes from a manufacturer we buy from as a dealer: frameless, European-style, 18mm board, delivered flat with soft-close runners and six-way adjustable hinges already fitted. On a refacing quote those hinges are an extra; here they come with the box. Every cabinet is assembled by us before it is installed.
You can see the options before asking for a price. Our [kitchen cabinets catalogue](/oakville/kitchen-catalogue/) shows a hundred and twenty finished kitchens in the ranges we fit, sorted by door — shaker, slim shaker, matte and gloss slab, and wood grain. Tell us which one you like and it goes straight onto the written quote.
For doors the catalogue does not offer, we buy the boxes in and make the doors in our own shop, sprayed in our booth with the same catalysed 2K polyurethane used on refaced kitchens. That is the part of the job that is genuinely ours, and it is why we do not need to subcontract any of it.
We decide which route suits your kitchen. Your price and your warranty are the same either way, which is what makes it reasonable for us to choose.
Our part of the job, and your other trades'
Most quotes are vague about this, so here is the order.
- Your old kitchen is removed. We do it, priced as its own line.
- The new cabinets are assembled and installed. Levelled, scribed to walls that are never quite straight, and adjusted so every door hangs true.
- The countertop is templated. Only now, because the fabricator measures the cabinets actually in the room — stone cut from drawings rarely fits the kitchen it arrives in.
- Appliances, plumbing and electrical. Your trades, once the stone is in.
We finish at step two. Four to six weeks gets the cabinets installed, not the kitchen working, and what happens between those points is scheduled by other people. We would rather write that into a quote than promise something on the phone we cannot deliver.
With a general contractor, we fit into their schedule and they own the dates. Without one, we will set out what needs to happen and in which order so you can book it.
The warranty
Five years on the cabinetry and fronts. One year on the installation.
That is shorter than our refacing warranty, and here is why. Refaced doors carry longer cover because we make them — the material and the finish are ours, and we know how they age. Manufactured cabinetry carries its maker's term, with our installation cover on top.
In plain terms: the five years covers the cabinets and fronts against defects in materials and workmanship. The one year covers the installation — levelling, scribing, a door that stops hanging true — the faults that come from how cabinets were fitted rather than how they were made. Neither covers everyday wear, water damage or accidental knocks.
Whatever goes wrong, you deal with us. No one hands you an overseas phone number and walks away.
Most Oakville kitchens need new doors, not new cabinets
The boxes in most of the kitchens we look at are still perfectly sound — square, dry and fixed firmly to the wall. What people dislike is the door colour or a profile that dates the room, and both are fixed for around a third of the money without the room coming apart. Settling whether your cabinets actually need replacing comes first, and the page above this one puts refacing and replacement side by side on price, time and disruption.
Kitchen cabinet replacement cost in Oakville
From $18,000, with no upper figure.
That covers the cabinetry, assembled and installed. It is where prices start rather than what a typical kitchen costs, and it moves with three things: the number of cabinets, the door you choose, and how much has to be made to measure instead of standard sizes. A large kitchen in a solid timber door goes well beyond the starting figure, and naming a ceiling we could not hold to would be less honest than saying there is none.
Removing the old kitchen is priced separately, as are hardware upgrades, millwork and any countertop we coordinate. Keeping them as separate lines helps you: anything you can see is something you can drop, which a single all-in figure never allows.
Since everyone asks: refacing your existing kitchen runs $8,000 to $15,000, and a full renovation that changes the layout runs $25,000 to $40,000 once trades, countertops and finishing are counted. Replacement sits between the two because it is more than new doors and less than a renovation.
Your quote is fixed. It arrives within 24 hours of your photographs and it does not change afterwards.
Questions
Common questions about replacing kitchen cabinets in Oakville
- What is included in the $18,000?
- The cabinetry itself, assembled and installed — boxes, doors, drawers, hinges and runners, levelled and scribed to your walls. Countertops, appliances, plumbing and electrical are not in it, and neither is removing your existing kitchen, which is priced as a separate line so you can see exactly what it costs.
- What is the most it can cost?
- There is no ceiling, and we will not pretend there is. The number of cabinets, the door you pick and how much has to be made to measure all move the price, and a big kitchen in solid timber can come to several times the starting figure. Our painting and refacing prices have a top end; this one does not.
- How long will I be without a kitchen?
- We cannot honestly give you that date, because most of it is not ours. Four to six weeks covers a signed contract through to installed cabinetry. The countertop is only templated once the new boxes are in, and plumbing, electrical and appliances come after the stone — all of them your trades, on their schedules. We will tell you exactly when our part finishes.
- Do you build the cabinets yourselves?
- No, and we would rather say so up front. Most jobs use cabinetry from a manufacturer we buy from as a dealer; it is delivered flat and we assemble and install it. When the doors you want are not in the catalogue, we buy the boxes in and make the doors in our own shop, sprayed in the same 2K polyurethane we use for refacing. We choose the route, and it does not change your price or your warranty.
- How long is the warranty?
- Five years on the cabinetry and fronts, one year on the installation. If something fails, you call us, not a manufacturer you have never spoken to — one contract, one phone number.
- Is it cheaper than renovating the kitchen?
- It is a smaller job rather than a cheaper version of the same one. A renovation changes the layout and involves walls, plumbing and electrical, and runs $25,000 to $40,000 once trades, countertops and finishing are counted. We replace the cabinets and leave everything else where it is, so you are paying for one trade instead of five.
- Can you manage the whole renovation?
- No. We supply and install cabinetry, and that focus is why we are good value. If walls, plumbing or flooring are changing, a general contractor should hold that contract, and we will work to their schedule.
Wondering whether your cabinets need replacing?
Send wide photographs of each run of cabinets and tell us what bothers you about the kitchen. A written price comes back within 24 hours — and if refacing what you already have would do the job for a third of the money, that is what we will tell you.
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