Cabinet Refacing Cost 2026: $5,000–$10,000 Typical

Refacing about 25 linear feet of kitchen cabinets in a US house — new doors, new drawer fronts, veneer on the boxes that stay, hardware, and the labor in one price, on boxes that are already square — often clusters around $5,000–$10,000. That is the typical cabinet refacing cost. How much does cabinet refacing cost in that scope? It is 25 linear feet at $200–$400 a linear foot, not the $450 top. The cost to reface kitchen cabinets, for that run, is the same band. Kitchen cabinet refacing cost is that installed price. Cabinet refacing cost per linear foot, installed, is typically $150–$450, and the typical band is the $200–$400 part of that rate on about 25 linear feet. How much does it cost to reface cabinets in that scope? It is $5,000–$10,000. The wider national spread, about $1,500–$18,000, covers about 10 linear feet at $150 a foot at the low end and about 40 linear feet at $450 a foot at the high end. Paint on the old doors is the interior painting guide. New boxes, a new counter, and a layout change are the kitchen remodel guide. A floor sanded in the same season is the hardwood floor refinishing guide. These are typical planning ranges, not a survey and not a quote.

This page is a reface of kitchen cabinets that are already in a single-family house. A bid may call it cabinet refacing, cabinet resurfacing, or a cabinet makeover. The boxes stay. The doors and the drawer fronts are new. The face of each box gets a veneer. The hardware is in. It is not paint on the old doors, which is the interior painting guide. It is not new boxes, a moved sink, or a new counter, which is the kitchen remodel guide. It is not sanding the floor, which is the hardwood floor refinishing guide. A bathroom vanity, and a single door, are different products.

The price of the job is the materials and the labor that installs them. Linear feet are the first cut. The material is the second. A per-foot rate is a way to check a row. It is not a second bill. Measure each run. Uppers and lowers both count. Ten feet of wall with a base cabinet and an upper cabinet is 20 linear feet, not 10. Price the feet the drawing names.

The rows below are ways to read one job. They are not added together. The size table is a reface at $150–$450 a linear foot, doors, veneer, hardware, and labor included, on boxes that are already square. The material table is that same installed run, by what the doors and the face are made of, and it replaces the generic rate. The typical band is $200–$400 a foot on about 25 linear feet. It is not a second reface on top of the size row. Use an add-on row only for a line the size row does not include. Crown the proposal already names is not a second crown. Paint on doors the proposal already replaces is not a second finish.

Kitchen	Linear feet	Typical installed cost
A short run	10	$1,500–$4,500
A smaller kitchen	20	$3,000–$9,000
A common kitchen	25	$3,750–$11,250
A larger kitchen	30	$4,500–$13,500
A long run	40	$6,000–$18,000

Material	Typical installed cost per linear foot
Laminate	$80–$125
Wood veneer	$100–$250
Solid wood doors	$200–$500

Add-on	Typical planning range
Crown molding, when the bid leaves it out	$210–$570

The material rows replace the generic rate inside the size row. Do not add solid wood on top of a size row that was already priced at $150–$450. The add-on row is a line the size row left out. Crown the proposal already includes is not the crown row on top. A kitchen with no crown does not get that row.

About 10 linear feet — a short run — is typically $1,500–$4,500. Ten times $150 is $1,500, the floor of the row and the floor of the wider spread. Ten times $450 is $4,500, the top. Ten times $200 is $2,000, inside the row and under the typical band. Ten times $400 is $4,000, inside the row and under the typical band. The whole row sits under $5,000. A 10 linear foot reface at the top of the rate is still a short run. It is not the typical band with a discount. From $1,500–$4,500 the job is the 10 linear foot row. Do not add the 25 linear foot row on top of it.

About 20 linear feet — a smaller kitchen — is typically $3,000–$9,000. Twenty times $150 is $3,000, the floor. Twenty times $450 is $9,000, the top. Twenty times $200 is $4,000, inside the row and under the typical band. Twenty times $250 is $5,000, the typical floor. Twenty times $400 is $8,000, inside the row and inside the typical band. The overlap with the typical band is $5,000–$9,000. The $5,000 point is also 25 linear feet at $200. Ask which kitchen the bid is. From $3,000–$5,000 the job sits at or under the typical floor and stays inside the row. From $5,000–$9,000 the job is inside the typical band and stays inside this row. It is not the typical 25 linear foot band. Do not add the 10 linear foot row to this one.

About 25 linear feet — a common kitchen of that size — is typically $3,750–$11,250 on the size row, and the typical band of $5,000–$10,000 is that row from $200 to $400 a linear foot. Twenty-five times $150 is $3,750, the floor of the row and $1,250 under the typical floor. Twenty-five times $200 is $5,000, the typical floor. Twenty-five times $400 is $10,000, the typical top. Twenty-five times $450 is $11,250, the top of the row and $1,250 past the typical band. The overlap of the size row with the typical band is $5,000–$10,000. From $3,750–$5,000 the job sits under the typical floor and stays inside the row. From $10,000–$11,250 the job has left the typical band and stays inside the wider spread. This is the kitchen the typical band describes, at $200–$400 a foot, not at $450. Do not add a per-foot rate on top of this row. The per-foot reading is how the row was built.

About 30 linear feet is typically $4,500–$13,500. Thirty times $150 is $4,500, the floor of the row and under the typical band. Thirty times $200 is $6,000, inside the typical band. Thirty times $450 is $13,500, the top. The overlap with the typical band is $6,000–$10,000. The $10,000 point is also 25 linear feet at $400. Ask which kitchen the bid is. From $10,000–$13,500 the job is at or above the typical top and stays inside the wider spread. Do not add the 25 linear foot row to this one.

About 40 linear feet is typically $6,000–$18,000. Forty times $150 is $6,000, the floor of the row and inside the typical band. Forty times $250 is $10,000, the typical top. Forty times $450 is $18,000, the top of the row and the top of the wider spread. The overlap with the typical band is $6,000–$10,000. The $10,000 point is also 25 linear feet at $400. Ask which kitchen the bid is. From $10,000–$18,000 the job is at or above the typical top and stays inside the wider spread. Do not add the 30 linear foot row to this one.

Cabinet refacing cost per linear foot

Cabinet refacing cost per linear foot is the installed reface, not the price of a door with no labor named. The size rows use $150–$450, doors, veneer, hardware, and labor included. The typical band uses $200–$400 on about 25 linear feet. Twenty-five times $200 is $5,000, the typical floor. Twenty-five times $400 is $10,000, the typical top. Twenty-five times $150 is $3,750, the floor of the 25 linear foot row. Twenty-five times $450 is $11,250, the top of that row. Use the foot line when the bid is written that way. Do not add those feet on top of a size row that already includes them.

On 20 linear feet, $200 a foot is $4,000, under the typical band. Twenty times $250 is $5,000, the typical floor and inside the 20 linear foot row. On 10 linear feet, $400 a foot is $4,000, under the typical floor. On 30 linear feet, $200 a foot is $6,000, inside the typical band, and $450 a foot is $13,500, the top of that row. A quote of $200 a foot on 25 linear feet is the typical floor. It is not a 40 linear foot kitchen with a discount. Forty linear feet at $200 is $8,000.

A rate under $150 on a simple laminate run can land under the size row and still sit inside the wider spread. Ten linear feet at a rate under $150 can land under the $1,500 floor of that row. Ask the linear feet before you call it a bargain. A rate over $450 on solid wood doors, or in a high-cost metro, can leave the size row. Twenty-five linear feet at a rate over $450 is over $11,250 and can stay inside the 30 linear foot row until it passes $13,500. Ask which kitchen the bid priced.

Laminate replaces the generic rate. It is typically $80–$125 a linear foot. On 25 linear feet, $80 is $2,000, which has left the 25 linear foot row by $1,750 under the floor and stays inside the wider spread, $500 over the $1,500 floor. Twenty-five times $125 is $3,125, still under the $3,750 floor of that size row and under the typical band. The whole laminate span on this kitchen sits under $5,000. Do not add $80 on top of a size row that was already priced at $150.

Wood veneer replaces the generic rate. It is typically $100–$250 a linear foot. On 25 linear feet, $100 is $2,500, under the size-row floor. Twenty-five times $200 is $5,000, the typical floor, and $200 is inside the veneer rate. Twenty-five times $250 is $6,250, inside the typical band and inside the 25 linear foot row. The overlap of veneer on this kitchen with the typical band is $5,000–$6,250. From $6,250–$10,000 the typical band has left veneer. That span is a higher rate, and solid wood is the material that reaches it.

Solid wood doors replace the generic rate. The boxes still get a veneer. The doors are solid wood. The rate is typically $200–$500 a linear foot. On 25 linear feet, $200 is $5,000, the typical floor. Twenty-five times $400 is $10,000, the typical top. Twenty-five times $500 is $12,500, which has left the 25 linear foot row by $1,250 and sits inside the 30 linear foot row, under that row’s $13,500 top. The overlap of solid wood on this kitchen with the typical band is $5,000–$10,000. That overlap is the typical band. Ask which material the bid is. Do not add the veneer row under a solid-wood price for the same feet.

Cost to reface kitchen cabinets

The cost to reface kitchen cabinets is this page when the doors, the veneer, the hardware, and the labor are one job. Kitchen cabinet refacing cost is that same installed price. A bid that says refacing and a bid that says resurfacing are the same dollars when the linear feet, the material, and the labor match and both sit on the $150–$450 rate. The typical band, $5,000–$10,000, is about 25 linear feet of that installed reface. It is not a second product stacked on a size row you already have.

How much does it cost to reface cabinets, as a door-only number, is not this page. The installed row includes the doors, the drawer fronts, the veneer on the boxes, the hardware, and the labor. A warehouse price for the doors, with the rest left out, is a parts list. On 25 linear feet, the installed typical band is $5,000–$10,000. Do not add a door price under an installed price for the same feet.

Paint on the old doors is a different product. It is typically $1,800–$5,000 on the interior painting guide, for the doors, the frames, and the drawers of a common kitchen. That whole span sits at or under the typical floor of $5,000. $1,800 is $300 over the wider floor of $1,500. $5,000 is the typical reface floor, and it is also the top of that paint row. Those are the same dollars and not the same job. One is paint. One is new doors and veneer. Ask which one the number is. Do not add $1,800 under a reface that already replaces the doors.

New boxes are not this page. A full kitchen that keeps the layout, on about 200 square feet, is the kitchen remodel guide, often $30,000–$55,000. Thirty thousand is $20,000 past the typical reface top. A reface at $10,000 plus a remodel at $30,000 is $40,000, and that sum double-counts the cabinets if the remodel already includes new boxes. A remodel that already names new boxes is not this reface on top. A reface of boxes that are staying is not the remodel’s cabinet line.

What the range includes

The typical band assumes about 25 linear feet of kitchen cabinet refacing at a single-family house. The new doors are in. The new drawer fronts are in. The veneer on the boxes is in. The hardware is in. The labor is in. Ordinary removal of the old doors, in this band, is part of the installed rate. The rate that lands on $200–$400 a linear foot is the rate this band uses. Twenty-five linear feet at $200 a foot is the $5,000 floor. The same run at $400 is the $10,000 top. The boxes are already square. They stay. A layout change is not in the band. Crown is not in the band.

How long the work takes depends on the linear feet, the material, and the number of doors, and the bid’s schedule is the one that counts. These are not a day count on this page. A kitchen that is still in use while the doors are off is a scheduling question for the bid, not a dollar line.

The floor of the wider spread, near $1,500, is about 10 linear feet at $150 a foot. It is not 25 linear feet someone discounted. The top, $18,000, is about 40 linear feet at $450. Forty times $450 is $18,000. It is not the 25 linear foot row plus every add-on. Twenty-five linear feet at the typical top, $10,000, and crown the reface left out at $210 is $10,210. Ten thousand plus $210 is $10,210, which has left the typical band by $210 and stays inside the 25 linear foot row, under that row’s $11,250 top. Twenty-five linear feet at $10,000 plus crown at $570 is $10,570. That sum has left the typical band by $570 and stays inside the 25 linear foot row. Stacking those lines does not build the $18,000 job by itself. The $18,000 job is also the long run at $450 a foot, with no crown. Treat a number above $18,000 as more linear feet, solid wood past $450, or a kitchen the $450 line does not cover, and ask which one.

None of the bands include crown molding, when the bid leaves it out, typically $210–$570. Five thousand plus $210 is $5,210, inside the typical band. Ten thousand plus $570 is $10,570, $570 past the typical top and inside the 25 linear foot row. A kitchen that does not get crown does not get this row. Crown the proposal already includes is not a second crown.

None of the bands include paint on doors that are staying, which is the interior painting guide, often $1,800–$5,000. None of the bands include a new floor, which is the hardwood floor refinishing guide when the oak is staying. None of the bands include a new counter or new boxes, which is the kitchen remodel guide. Five thousand plus a floor the reface left out is two jobs. Do not fold the paint, the floor, or the counter into the reface price.

The band is the installed price. A sale on the doors is not subtracted. Read the form before you take a number off the bid. A credit you have not received is not inside the planning range. This page does not price a sale, and it does not name a percentage of the cost that comes back at resale.

Warranties are part of the contract, and this page is not a reading of one company’s form. A refacing warranty commonly splits the doors, the veneer, and the installation, and the term on labor is often shorter than any term on a door. A seam that lifts, a door that will not close, and a chip the workmanship warranty excludes are questions for that form. Read it. The warranty is not a dollar line in the planning range.

Homeowners insurance and a home warranty are contracts too. A standard homeowners policy is built around sudden and accidental damage. Cabinets ruined by a covered burst pipe are the kind of loss those policies sometimes respond to, and the repair is part of that claim only to the extent the form says. Cabinets you chose to reface, and a door that was worn before the crew arrived, are the kind of loss those policies commonly treat as maintenance. Read the form. A home warranty may name the house and still exclude a finish you added. Neither contract is inside the planning range.

As a cross-check, not a bid: 25 linear feet at $200–$400 is $5,000–$10,000, the typical band. Twenty-five times $200 is $5,000. Twenty-five times $400 is $10,000. Ten linear feet at $150–$450 is $1,500–$4,500, under that band. Forty linear feet at $450 is $18,000, the top of the wider spread. If a bid and that reading are far apart, the bid is a different linear-foot size, laminate, solid wood, crown, paint, new boxes, or a price that left the labor out.

What moves the price

Driver	How it changes the bid
Size	Ten linear feet is $1,500–$4,500. About 20 linear feet is $3,000–$9,000. About 25 linear feet is $3,750–$11,250, and the typical band is the $200–$400 part of that row, $5,000–$10,000. About 30 linear feet is $4,500–$13,500. About 40 linear feet is $6,000–$18,000.
Material	Laminate is $80–$125 a linear foot and replaces the generic rate. Wood veneer is $100–$250 and replaces it. Solid wood doors are $200–$500 and replace it. The material is not a second price on top of the size row.
Rate	The size rows use $150–$450 a linear foot, doors, veneer, hardware, and labor included. The typical band is $200–$400 on about 25 linear feet. The foot price is not a second price on top of the size row.
Crown	Crown molding, when the bid leaves it out, is $210–$570. Crown the proposal already includes is not a second crown. A kitchen with no crown does not get that row.
Paint and boxes	Paint on doors that are staying is $1,800–$5,000 on the interior painting guide. New boxes are the kitchen remodel guide. A reface that already replaces the doors does not get the paint row. A remodel that already includes new boxes does not get this reface on top.
Access	A simple kitchen with square boxes and a ceiling the crew can reach is the reface this page prices. Ceiling-height uppers, a tight galley, and a high-cost metro can clear the top of the typical band on a straightforward 25 linear feet.

Linear feet are the first cut, and they are not a rate times one wall if the uppers and the lowers are both in the design. Measure the runs the drawing names. A 10 linear foot run at $450 is $4,500. Twenty-five linear feet at $200 is $5,000. The shorter, higher-rate run can cost less than the longer, cheaper one, and the gap is the feet.

The material is the second cut, and it is a way to read one kitchen. Adding $200 a foot on top of a size row that was already priced per foot is how 25 linear feet becomes a number nobody can compare.

The same 25 linear feet in a lower-cost area and in a high-labor city can sit at opposite ends of $5,000–$10,000 without either bid being wrong. Ask whether the doors are laminate, veneer, or solid wood, and ask whether the boxes are already square. Paint on doors that are staying, a kitchen remodel that replaces the boxes, and a hardwood floor sanded in the same season are the projects that show up beside this one. Price them on their own pages. Two bids that disagree about the linear feet, the material, and whether the labor is in are not the same job.

DIY or hire

Hire the reface. The veneer, the hinge alignment, and the door fit are the job. A weekend crew is most likely to miss a seam and a door that will not close, and a lifted veneer shows up at the edge.

A retail door kit is a different product. It is not the installed rate on this page, and it is not a 25 linear foot reface with the boxes skinned and the hardware set. The installed row is the pro price. On 25 linear feet at $200–$400 a foot, the job is $5,000–$10,000. That is the labor and the materials together. A kitchen reface is a hire.

Do not skip the prep or the hinge layout to save a day. If you are pricing a stack of doors, a roll of veneer, and boxes that are still out of square, you are pricing a contractor’s job without the crew. The person who refaces the cabinets should say what happens if a box is soft when the veneer is supposed to go on.

Repair or replace

Leave a sound set of cabinets in place when the boxes are square, the doors close, and the problem is the finish. Paint on those doors is the interior painting guide, typically $1,800–$5,000. That whole span sits at or under the typical reface floor of $5,000. If the paint quote for that kitchen has reached the installed row for the same linear feet, price a reface instead of a paint job that costs the same.

Reface the cabinets when the boxes are square and the doors or the face are tired. A new door and a new veneer are not a coat of paint. Leaving a worn set to save the $5,000–$10,000 is a choice about the kitchen, not a repair. A quote near $1,500 should say about 10 linear feet, not a common kitchen.

Replace the boxes when they sag, when water has swollen them, or when the layout has to change. That job is the kitchen remodel guide. A reface on a box that is soft is a new face on a box that still needs to come out. A floor that is worn through in the same season is the hardwood floor refinishing guide. If the same season includes any of those, they are separate scopes. Do not fold them into the reface price.

How long a new reface lasts is not a number on this page. A painted door is not a warranty that the veneer will stay down. A replacement door is not a warranty that a leak will miss the box. The bid’s scope is the work you bought.

How to use this number

Ask two or three contractors for a written price that names the linear feet, whether uppers and lowers both count, whether the price is per linear foot or a lump sum, whether the doors, the drawer fronts, the veneer, the hardware, and the labor are all included, which material the doors are, and what happens if a box is soft. Compare about 25 linear feet of kitchen cabinet refacing, installed, with $5,000–$10,000. Compare the runs with $1,500–$4,500 for 10 linear feet, $3,000–$9,000 for 20, $3,750–$11,250 for 25, $4,500–$13,500 for 30, and $6,000–$18,000 for 40. Compare the rate with $150–$450 a linear foot, and the typical slice with $200–$400. Keep the materials and the labor inside those rows. Put left-out crown at $210–$570 on its own line.

A very low bid on 25 linear feet is a reason to ask whether the labor and the materials are both included, not a reason to celebrate. A quote near $1,500 should say about 10 linear feet, not a common kitchen. A high bid should point at linear feet, solid wood, crown, ceiling-height uppers, or the labor market. Two or three local bids on the same linear feet, the same material, and the same hardware are the number that matters. How this site sets the band is explained on the methodology page.