Cabinet door replacement in Lynn, MA swaps the faces of your kitchen and leaves every box exactly where it is, so Custom Cabinets Lynn can turn most of them around in two or three days on site. New doors and drawer fronts cost you $180 to $330 a door fitted, or $2,200 to $6,600 across an average kitchen. If you have already bought the doors, we hang and adjust them for $140 to $230 each, because hanging is most of the work. You can read new doors against refacing and full replacement on our cabinet price guide.
The catch first, because it is the one that surprises people. Your face frames, the strips of wood between and around the doors, do not change when the doors do.
On a stained oak kitchen with new white doors, you will see those frames every day. We either paint the frames to match while the doors are off, or we tell you plainly that refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 is the version that covers them. We would rather have that conversation at the quote than after your new doors land.
Where your kitchen is already painted, or the frames are close enough in tone, new doors are the best value in this trade. You are buying the part of the kitchen you touch and look at, and leaving the part that is doing its job.
Which route suits your kitchen
New doors and fronts on the boxes you already have
We measure every opening in your kitchen rather than working from a plan, because in a 1946 house the cabinet that looks the same is usually a different width to the one beside it. Your doors come back cut to those numbers, drilled for your hinges, and finished on all six faces, so no raw wood shows when a panel shrinks in winter. Expect $180 to $330 a door for standard sizes. Anything over about 24 inches wide is priced past that.
Doors plus the face frames, painted while they are open
We spray your face frames the same week the doors are off, which is the only time that job is cheap and the only time it comes out clean. Doing it later means masking a fitted kitchen and cutting in around new doors, and you get a visible line wherever the brush stopped. Adding the frames to a door job runs $2,000 to $6,500, depending on how many boxes there are.
New fronts with the hardware changed underneath
Hinges and drawer slides cost $30 to $80 per door or drawer either way, which means changing them while your doors are already down is close to free labor. A Blum soft-close slide is rated for a drawer full of pots. Your pot drawer often needs more than that, so we put a heavier side-mounted slide under that one instead of hoping. Your pulls and knobs get set off a jig rather than by eye, and Top Knobs and Emtek both stock finishes that suit an older Lynn kitchen.
When we would tell you to spend the money elsewhere
Doors are the visible half of a kitchen and the boxes are the half that fails, so new fronts on a swollen sink base is money in the wrong place. Where a blade sinks into the floor under your trap, that box gets replaced at $400 to $1,400 before anything new goes on the front of it. On a kitchen where three or four boxes read like that, we would rather quote you replacement than sell you $6,600 of doors.
How your week runs
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We measure every opening, not every third one
We measure each door and drawer front on its own, because your kitchen was built on site and the sizes drift by an eighth of an inch from one bay to the next. That measure is free, and it is what stops a door arriving a hair too small for its opening.
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We check the hinge holes before ordering anything
Your hinges sit in a standard round hole in the back of each door. Where those are sound, we order your new doors drilled to match, since reusing the mounting plates keeps the job to a day. Where the holes have torn out of tired particleboard, we say so at the quote rather than discovering it with your kitchen in pieces.
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We order to your numbers and give you the lead time
We have made-to-order doors and fronts built at a shop in Lawrence, which takes 1 to 2 weeks against the 4 to 12 weeks a full custom kitchen takes. You keep your old doors on the boxes the whole time, so nothing about your kitchen changes until the day we fit.
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We hang your doors and set the gaps
We hang everything in one pass, then walk the run and adjust, because a door set right on its own can still look wrong beside its neighbor. Your gaps get set for the damp end of the year, which leaves them a fraction wide in February and correct in August.
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We take the old doors away and leave you spares
We take your old doors and fronts out with us unless you want them, and we leave the spare hinges, mounting plates and touch-up behind. That is why your next adjustment is something you can do with a screwdriver instead of a booking.
The four things that should be on a new-door quote
Why Lynn homeowners call us for new doors
Nobody wants to pay for new doors and get a kitchen where the old frames show around every one of them. So we start by telling you whether your frames will match, and what it costs if they will not. Most kitchens here were built around 1946, and no two openings are quite the same size, so we measure every one. Your doors come back at $180 to $330 each, drilled to fit your hinges, and they go on in two or three days.
Taking painted doors off a pre-1978 kitchen is regulated work
Most Lynn kitchens were painted before 1978, and that paint may contain lead. Once more than 6 square feet of it is disturbed, the state lead-safe rules apply, 454 CMR 22.00. Unscrewing a run of original painted doors and scraping the frames behind them gets there in minutes. Sealing the room and cleaning down with a HEPA vacuum costs $350 to $1,200, and it should appear on your quote as its own line.
Nothing here needs a permit, and nothing here should claim one
Swapping doors leaves your plumbing, gas, wiring and walls alone, so the state treats it as an ordinary repair. No filing, no inspection, no waiting. If a price includes a permit line for a door swap, it is priced for something other than doors.
Door material decides whether this lasts five years or twenty
Thermofoil fronts at $80 to $125 a linear foot are a plastic film over a board, and they let go near heat, which is why the door beside a range fails first. Wood veneer at $100 to $250 sits over a stable core that stays put through a New England winter. Solid wood doors at $200 to $500 need a center panel that floats in its frame, because a panel glued in place splits down the middle when the indoor air dries out in February.
What the finish has to hit
| Doors and drawer fronts, fitted | $180 to $330 per door |
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| Doors and fronts across a kitchen | $2,200 to $6,600 |
| Hanging doors you supplied | $140 to $230 per door |
| Soft-close hinge or runner, while the doors are off | $30 to $80 each |
| Hinge cup bore | 35mm |
| Made-to-order door lead time | 1 to 2 weeks |
Refacing a Lynn kitchen runs $5,000 to $13,000 installed, or $150 to $450 per linear foot. Swapping doors and drawer fronts alone runs $180 to $330 per door. What moves the number is the door material, how many boxes are actually still sound, and whether the kitchen predates 1978.
| What the job is | Typical range | Unit |
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| Refacing a standard kitchen: new doors, drawer fronts and veneered boxesThe whole visible surface changes and the layout does not. Priced on the door count and the run length rather than on the square footage of the room. | $5,000 – $13,000 | installed |
| Refacing priced by the footMeasure the run of base and wall cabinets along the wall, not the floor. This is the number to compare quotes on, because it strips out how big the kitchen happens to be. | $150 – $450 | per linear foot |
| Rigid thermofoil or laminate doors and frontsThe cheapest way to change the look. It is a vinyl film heat-pressed onto a substrate, and it is the one door type that will not survive a steam vent or a wall oven at close quarters. | $80 – $125 | per linear foot |
| Wood veneer doors and frontsReal wood face over an engineered core. Stable through a New England heating season because the core does not move the way a solid panel does. | $100 – $250 | per linear foot |
| Solid hardwood doors and frontsFive-piece doors with a floating panel. The top of the refacing range and the only version that can be sanded and refinished again in fifteen years. | $200 – $500 | per linear foot |
| Doors and drawer fronts only, boxes left aloneWhere the boxes are sound and only the faces are dated. Includes the door, the hinge boring and the hanging. Drawer fronts price the same way. | $180 – $330 | per door, installed |
| Doors and drawer fronts only, whole kitchenThe same job counted across an average kitchen rather than per door. The cheapest real change you can make to a kitchen that is structurally fine. | $2,200 – $6,600 | installed |
| Labor alone on a door and front swap, doors suppliedFor anyone pricing the doors separately. Hanging and adjusting is most of this line, because a door that is hung but not adjusted reads as a bad job within a month. | $140 – $230 | per door |
| Soft-close hinge and undermount runner retrofit during a refaceDone while the doors are already off, which is the only time it is cheap. Hinges and runners carry their own load and cycle ratings, so this gets specified rather than picked off a shelf. | $30 – $80 | per door or drawer |
| Replacing a failed sink base or dishwasher end panel during a refaceThe row that separates a real refacing quote from a cosmetic one. A swollen particleboard sink base will lift new veneer inside a year, so it gets replaced rather than skinned. | $400 – $1,400 | per box |
| Lead-safe containment and cleanup on a pre-1978 kitchenSealing the room, HEPA vacuuming and a wet cleanup rather than a broom. On a kitchen built before 1978 this is a rule about the work, not an upgrade, and it is on the quote or it is being skipped. | $350 – $1,200 | per job |
Want yours measured properly?
We come out, measure the opening at three heights and check how far off square your walls sit, then put a written number on it before anything is ordered.
Questions we get asked
How much do new kitchen cabinet doors cost in Lynn?
$180 to $330 per door fitted, or $2,200 to $6,600 for a whole kitchen. Labor alone on doors you supply is $140 to $230 each. By material, thermofoil runs $80 to $125 a linear foot, wood veneer $100 to $250 and solid hardwood $200 to $500.
Can I just replace the doors and keep the cabinets?
Yes, and that is the whole point of the job. Your boxes, layout and cabinet positions stay exactly where they are. The one thing that does not change is the frame between the doors, which is why we usually price painting those at the same time.
How long does it take to replace kitchen cabinet doors?
Two to three days on site. Made-to-order doors and fronts take 1 to 2 weeks to arrive, and your old doors stay on the boxes until fitting day. Your kitchen is only in pieces for the fitting itself.
Will new doors fit my old hinges?
Usually. Concealed hinges sit in a standard round hole, and we order your doors drilled to the pattern already in your boxes wherever those mounting plates are sound. Where the holes have pulled out of the door edges, budget $30 to $80 a door for new hardware.
Are new doors cheaper than refacing?
Yes, by roughly half. Doors and fronts alone run $2,200 to $6,600 against $5,000 to $13,000 to reface. The gap is the veneer over your boxes and face frames, so the question is whether those frames look wrong against new doors.
Who replaces kitchen cabinet doors near me in Lynn?
Custom Cabinets Lynn replaces doors and drawer fronts across Lynn and the North Shore at $180 to $330 a door. We measure every opening on its own rather than assuming repeats, because a kitchen built in 1946 drifts by an eighth of an inch from bay to bay.
New doors are the smallest job in this trade that still reads as a new kitchen, and the whole of their value depends on your boxes being worth keeping. We open two of them before we quote you. That takes four minutes and it occasionally saves a great deal more than that.
If your doors are sound and it is the color you have gone off, cabinet painting is $2,000 to $6,500 and keeps everything you own. Where the hinges are the real complaint, hinge and drawer slide replacement is $30 to $80 a door, and everything we handle lists the rest.