Condo and high-rise cabinet installation in Lynn, MA is a scheduling job as much as a woodworking one. Custom Cabinets Lynn reads your building's rules before drawing a single run. Semi-custom cabinetry runs $150 to $700 per linear foot fitted. A kitchen built to your opening runs $10,000 to $26,500. A full reface is $5,000 to $13,000 where your boxes are sound. We work for owners, boards and managing agents across the Boston-side buildings and the North Shore conversions. Our cost guide carries every one of those ranges with its source.
We start with what your building lets us do and work back from there. Your service elevator is booked for a fixed window, your work hours are weekdays only, and nobody may block the corridor. A house never puts those on a kitchen. Each one lengthens your job rather than your material list.
Your layout is the second thing we settle, and in a building it usually settles itself. A pipe stack in a shared wall, or a concrete slab under your floor, means the sink stays where the sink is. So your money goes into the boxes, the doors and the storage instead of into moving water.
Then we ask how old the conversion is. A mill building or a three-decker turned into units before 1978 puts your work under the lead-safe rules. In a building where the corridor air is shared, that matters to more people than you.
What makes these different
Getting a kitchen into your building
We size your run to the elevator car rather than to the loading dock. A tall pantry that will not stand up in the lift arrives flat and gets assembled on your floor. Our door shop in Lawrence cuts doors and drawer boxes to order on a 1 to 2 week lead, against 4 to 12 weeks for a pre-assembled kitchen. So the parts turn up when your service window does. Nothing waits in a lobby overnight, because in most buildings it is not allowed to.
Where the plumbing is not going to move
A sink against a shared wall or over a slab stays where it is in almost every unit we work in. So we design around it rather than pricing a fight with your building. That is why refacing at $5,000 to $13,000, or $150 to $450 a linear foot, does more for a condo owner than for a house. Your layout was fixed the day the building went up. The visible half of it is the half you can actually change.
More storage inside the same footprint
You cannot borrow a foot from the unit next door, so the only direction left is up and inward. We take your wall cabinets to the ceiling where the soffit allows it, and fit pull-outs into the corners and the narrow bays. Your drawers run on Blum hardware sized by what goes in them. A runner picked off the drawer width is the one that binds first. Where a soffit is hiding a sprinkler main or a riser, it is staying, and what comes out and what does not is worth settling before the drawing.
An older conversion, and what it adds
Mill buildings and three-deckers turned into units before 1978 carry the same lead-safe duties as any pre-1978 home, at $350 to $1,200 to seal and clean. In a building that figure buys you more than compliance. The dust that leaves your door travels a corridor everybody uses. Semi-custom boxes from Fabuwood at $150 to $700 a foot suit these units well, because a converted room is often closer to square than the house it started as.
How we scope your building
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We read your building's rules first
We ask for your work hours, the elevator procedure and the corridor rules before we quote. Those three decide how many days your kitchen takes, far more than the cabinetry does.
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We book the service elevator and plan around it
We fix the delivery to the window your building gives us, and stage the order so everything for that window is ready. A missed slot in a busy building can cost you the better part of a week. Where a Blum runner is back-ordered, we fit an equal part from another maker rather than lose your slot waiting on a brand.
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We protect the route, not only your unit
We lay board over the corridor floor and guard the corners at the lift lobby before a single box moves. Damage on the way to your door gets charged back to you, not to the building.
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We check the outlets against the new run
We look at what your wall cabinets and backsplash will cover. Code wants an outlet within reach along a counter, which is roughly one every 4 feet. Chasing a new one into a concrete wall is a job you want priced before it is discovered.
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We take the old kitchen out the way it came in
We break your old run down small enough to carry, bag it and move it in the same booked window. Your neighbors never meet a dumpster in the lobby or a pile beside the lift.
What your building adds to the job
Why condo owners here call us
Nobody wants to lose a week because a cabinet would not fit in the lift. So we take the car dimensions and the corridor turns off your building before we order anything. Buildings around Lynn are mostly conversions, and their service elevators were never sized for a finished pantry. Your run gets built to travel flat and assembled on your floor. Semi-custom is $150 to $700 a linear foot fitted, and a kitchen built to your opening is $10,000 to $26,500.
The permit question and the board question are different questions
A cabinet swap that leaves your plumbing, gas, wiring, structure, exits and fire protection alone counts as an ordinary repair, so no building permit attaches to it. Your association's approval is a separate process on its own timetable. Answering one and assuming it covers the other is the most common reason a unit sits half finished waiting on paper.
A pre-1978 conversion is lead-safe work
The state lead-safe rules, 454 CMR 22.00, apply once more than 6 square feet of painted surface is disturbed in a room of any home built before 1978. Most of the conversions in this market qualify. Sealing and wet-cleaning runs $350 to $1,200 and belongs on your quote as a line. In a shared building the alternative is dust in a corridor that is not yours to dirty.
Your deposit is capped, because your condo is a home
State law caps the deposit on a home job at a third of the price, or the real cost of made-to-order material, whichever is greater. A condo you live in is a home for that purpose. On a kitchen built to your opening the material part genuinely applies, because those boxes are made for your unit alone. On catalog boxes it usually does not.
Numbers that drive the spec
| Semi-custom cabinetry fitted, by the foot | $150 to $700 per linear foot |
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| Cabinetry built to your opening, 10x10 kitchen | $10,000 to $26,500 |
| Refacing a sound kitchen | $5,000 to $13,000 |
| Setting cabinets you have already bought | $4,500 to $15,000 |
| Lead-safe containment and cleanup, pre-1978 | $350 to $1,200 |
| Made-to-order components against full fabrication | 1 to 2 weeks against 4 to 12 |
Fully custom cabinetry in Lynn runs $500 to $1,200 per linear foot installed, or $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 kitchen. Semi-custom runs $150 to $700 per foot and stock $100 to $400. What moves the number is the box, the door and how far out of square the wall is.
| What the job is | Typical range | Unit |
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| Fully custom cabinetry, built to the openingDrawn to your kitchen rather than assembled from catalog sizes. Any width, any height, any depth, and no filler strips standing in for a wall that is not straight. | $500 – $1,200 | per linear foot, installed |
| High-end custom: inset doors, specialty species, hand-applied finishInset doors sit inside the frame rather than over it, which means every reveal has to be even and every one is visible. That is where the hours go. | $1,200 – $2,500 | per linear foot, installed |
| Semi-custom cabinetryCatalog boxes with real choices on door style, finish and some sizes. The middle of the market and the honest answer for most Lynn kitchens. | $150 – $700 | per linear foot, installed |
| Stock cabinetryFixed sizes off a shelf, usually in three-inch increments. Cheapest per foot, and the version most likely to need filler strips against a pre-1940 wall. | $100 – $400 | per linear foot, installed |
| Fully custom 10x10 kitchenThe standard comparison kitchen the industry prices against, roughly 20 linear feet of cabinetry. Use it to sanity-check a quote, not to price your own room. | $10,000 – $26,500 | installed |
| Stock or semi-custom 10x10 kitchenThe same comparison kitchen in catalog boxes. The gap against the custom line above is the whole decision in one number. | $3,000 – $11,000 | installed |
| Building and installation labor alone, on custom workRuns 25% to 40% of the total on a custom job. Worth knowing, because a quote where labor is far under that is either using catalog boxes or leaving something out. | $200 – $300 | per linear foot |
| Installing cabinets you already haveHanging, leveling, scribing, joining and setting the doors on boxes bought elsewhere. The spread is mostly about how true the walls and floor are. | $4,500 – $15,000 | per kitchen |
| A published North Shore figure for the same job, Salem MAOne live, published, local number for a full cabinet installation. Carried because it is the only one in this table that came from this side of the state, and because it sits above the top of the national custom range. | $28,564 | as quoted |
| Scribing and leveling a run into a pre-1940 openingPlaster over lath, a floor that has settled, and no corner at a true 90 degrees. Scribing the end panels and stiles to the real wall instead of filling the gap. On a 1946 kitchen this is normal work, not an extra. | $450 – $1,600 | added to the 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 does a condo kitchen cost in Lynn?
$150 to $700 a linear foot for semi-custom fitted, or $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 kitchen built to your opening. Refacing sound boxes runs $5,000 to $13,000. In a building where the layout is fixed, that is often your better spend.
Do I need permission from my building or a permit?
Two separate answers. A straight cabinet swap is an ordinary repair with no building permit. Your association's approval, work hours and elevator procedure are its own process, and usually the slower one.
How do cabinets get up to a unit on an upper floor?
In parts, inside a booked window. We size your run to the service elevator car rather than to a truck. A tall unit travels flat and gets assembled on your floor rather than cut down in a lobby.
Can the sink or the range be moved in a condo?
Rarely, and it is the question to settle first. A pipe stack in a shared wall or a slab under your floor makes moving water expensive or impossible. That is why most of the money in these kitchens goes into boxes, doors and storage.
How long does a condo kitchen take?
Longer than the same kitchen in a house. Weekday-only work hours and a fixed elevator window stretch your calendar. So we plan the order around the slots your building gives us, rather than around how fast the shop can cut.
Who installs condo and high-rise cabinets near me in Lynn?
Custom Cabinets Lynn fits condo and high-rise kitchens across Lynn, the North Shore and the Boston-side buildings. We take your elevator, corridor and work-hour rules off the building before ordering, so the delivery lands inside the window you were given.
A condo kitchen is not a smaller house kitchen. It is the same work carried out inside somebody else's schedule, through a corridor you share. We would rather plan that properly than discover it on a Thursday morning.
Where you hold several units rather than one, rental and multi-unit refacing prices the same work by the door and by the foot. Everything we handle lists the rest of it.