Cabinet refacing, painting, or replacement?
What each approach keeps, what it changes, and how to decide whether your existing cabinets are worth keeping.
Seattle cabinet refacing · Since 2001
Cabinet refacing in Seattle.
If you like your kitchen’s layout but are ready for a change, we can help you work out what is worth keeping. Refacing gives suitable cabinets new doors, drawer fronts and finished surfaces, with additions planned where you need them.
Choose an In-Home Quote to discuss the kitchen with an owner, or an Instant Rough Estimate from your ZIP code and cabinet counts. We confirm visit availability with you.
Read our Google reviews- Custom doors and drawer fronts
- Drawer hardware specified in your quote
- Shop-applied finishes
- Owner-operated. No salespeople.
Since 2001
A local family cabinet business
Owner-operated
No salespeople
Fit matters
Careful alignment, finished ends, and agreed hardware
People you can talk to
A conversation with an owner, from the start.
Tell us what you like about your kitchen and what you wish worked better. We will look at the cabinets, bring samples and help you understand the options before you decide on the work.
NW Cabinet is a local family business serving Puget Sound since 2001. You deal directly with an owner-operator. Your written quote sets out the materials, hardware and changes agreed for your kitchen.
Get to know NW CabinetBefore & after
See what refacing can change.
Explore three real kitchens that kept their familiar layouts and received new doors and finished exterior surfaces.
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The details you use every day.
A drawer should open comfortably. Doors should line up. Finished ends and trim should look like they belong. We work through those details with you and describe the agreed materials and hardware in your written quote.
Careful fit is visible in the spacing of the fronts, the finished ends, and the transitions around appliances. We specify the drawer boxes, slides, hinges, and finishing details in your written quote, then work through their alignment during installation.
Refacing starts with cabinetry worth keeping. If damage is limited, replacing a box or two may make sense. If new cabinets are the better choice for your home, we’ll tell you.
We replace doors, drawer fronts, and the agreed exterior surfaces around suitable cabinet boxes. Drawer boxes, slides, hinges, trim, and any new cabinets are specified for your kitchen in the written quote.
Compare the refacing approaches
What we build
Keep what works. Make room for what you need.
Start with the cabinets worth keeping, then consider the storage, additions or countertops that would make the kitchen work better for you.
Give your existing cabinets a new direction.
Keep suitable cabinet boxes and change the doors, fronts, and finishes around them.
Add what your kitchen is missing.
Consider a pantry, island, or other addition alongside your refacing project.
Bring cabinets and countertops together.
Explore countertop choices in the context of your cabinetry and daily use.
Selected work
Come take a closer look.
Natural fir in Magnolia, rift white oak in Madison Valley, and painted maple with oak in West Seattle. Explore the materials and practical changes in each kitchen.
Modern Magnolia Fir
Magnolia, Seattle
The documented project uses natural-finish fir plywood slab fronts on frameless cabinetry. That material carries across the working kitchen and full-height appliance cabinetry. A consistent front profile lets the wood grain and cabinet proportions define the appearance, while finished panels bring the different cabinet functions into the same plan.
Madison Valley Modern
Madison Valley, Seattle
Natural rift white oak slab fronts were used across frameless cabinetry. The refaced kitchen and new elements were coordinated through their material, proportions, grain direction, and finish. This makes the project a useful example of planning selected changes alongside refacing rather than treating every area as a separate design.
Ballard Craftsman Reface + Addition
Ballard, Seattle
Smoky Blue painted maple and Bevel Shaker fronts establish the material and door direction on the frameless cabinetry. The new storage and open elements were coordinated with the refacing so they read as part of the same project. The choice of a painted finish gives the different cabinet elements a consistent color.
How it works
Here is what happens next.
Talk with an owner, look at samples in your kitchen, review a written quote, then confirm the details before we order and install.
See the complete process- 01
Fit check
Choose an In-Home Quote to discuss the kitchen or an Instant Rough Estimate from cabinet counts. We confirm visit availability; online booking appears only when offered for your project.
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Measure and define
We assess the cabinets, compare samples, and measure your kitchen. Your written quote follows the visit.
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Select and approve
After your deposit, we take detailed measurements and finalize selections before ordering.
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Build and finish
We order the prefinished components and arrange your installation week once the supplier confirms timing.
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Install and adjust
We install, align, and finish the cabinetry, usually in two to five days. Countertops follow an additional schedule.
A few useful answers
Still working out what your kitchen needs?
Start with the questions homeowners ask us: what can stay, what a quote should include, how materials differ and what the work will be like at home.
Read all planning guidesHow to compare cabinet refacing quotes
A practical scope checklist for doors, exterior surfaces, drawers, hardware, installation and the work arranged separately.
Cabinet materials and finishes, in plain language
Understand fronts, cores, face frames, edges and finish samples before choosing the look of your refaced kitchen.
What to expect at home during cabinet refacing
Plan for cabinet preparation, limited kitchen use, noise, dust and the separate sequence for new countertops.
Find out what is possible in your kitchen.
Tell us what works, what does not, and what you would like to change.
