Yes, where your board is dry and the screws still bite. Refacing your kitchen runs $5,000 to $13,000 whatever the boxes are made of. Any box that has already swollen has to come out first, at $400 to $1,400, because veneer over it lifts within a year.
This is the first thing Custom Cabinets Lynn checks on a reface, and we do it with a blade rather than by looking, because dry particleboard and ruined particleboard look identical with the doors on. Push the blade into the deck of your sink base at the back corner where the trap drips. If it goes in like cheese, that box has swollen and it will not dry back.
Sound board under your doors takes a reface perfectly well. Veneer and laminate bond to a flat, stable, dry surface, and a flat sheet of particleboard is all three. What it is not is forgiving of water, and what it is not good at is holding a screw that has been in and out a few times.
That second point decides your hinges. New doors go on new hinges, and if the mounting screws in your face frame have already been re-driven twice they will not hold a third time in the same hole. We move the screw position or plug and re-drill, and where the frame itself is chewed we say the box has to go rather than hanging a new door on something that will drop.
So the answer is almost never all or nothing. We replace the failed boxes and reface the sound ones, and we price it as two lines so you can see which of your cabinets we mean and why. On most kitchens here that is one or two boxes, not the run.
The tables are on our cabinet cost guide, and plywood against particleboard covers what to specify if you do end up replacing.
Related questions
How can I check my own boxes before calling?
Empty the cabinet under your sink and press the deck at the back corners with your thumb. Soft, dark or lifting at the edge means it has taken water. Then pull a loaded shelf and see whether it bows, because A161.1 asks a box to carry 15 lb per square foot without sagging.
Does a reface make a weak box stronger?
No. Veneer is a surface, not a structure, so it adds nothing to what the box can carry. That is the whole argument for replacing a failed one at $400 to $1,400 rather than covering it.
What if most of my boxes have gone?
Then refacing stops making sense and we say so. Once you are replacing more than a couple of boxes, the $5,000 to $13,000 reface starts closing on new cabinetry, and building to your opening at $500 to $1,200 a foot buys you a layout change as well.