Cabinet Questions, Answered

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot installed for fully custom cabinets, which is $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 kitchen. Semi-custom is $150 to $700 a foot and stock is $100 to $400. One published local figure for a full cabinet installation in Salem came in at $28,564, above the top of the national custom range.

$5,000 to $13,000 for a standard kitchen, or $150 to $450 per linear foot. Thermofoil and laminate doors sit at the bottom of that at $80 to $125 a foot, wood veneer at $100 to $250, and solid hardwood at $200 to $500.

$2,000 to $6,500 for a standard kitchen with the doors off and sprayed, or $30 to $70 per linear foot. Spraying rather than brushing adds 30% to 70% per foot. Cabinets in poor condition add 20% to 45%, because stripping time is added rather than buried.

A linear foot is one foot measured along the wall your cabinets run down, counting base and wall cabinets on the same wall once. It is the only figure that lets you compare two quotes, because it takes the size of your kitchen out of it. Roughly 20 linear feet gives you the 10x10 kitchen the industry prices against.

Two reasons, and both are on this page. Our labor sits in a Boston-area wage market, and between 45.7% and 58.0% of Lynn's housing predates 1940. That adds $450 to $1,600 of wall fitting and leveling that a national calculator never sees.

No more than one third of the total price, or the actual cost of special-order material if that is higher. On your custom kitchen the material can fairly go past a third, because it is special-order by definition. On catalog boxes it usually cannot, so question anyone asking you for half up front.

1 to 2 weeks for made-to-order doors and drawer boxes, against 4 to 12 weeks for a full custom kitchen build. A Massachusetts shop in Lawrence cuts those parts for us, which is why we finish refacing and door swaps in days while a built kitchen takes months. You are choosing a queue, not a level of care.

Because the air in your house changes with the seasons. A heated Lynn house dries right out in February and turns damp by August, and your wood doors grow as they take on moisture. They are wider in August. A gap set in the dry months has nowhere left to go by the wet ones.

$120 to $600 for a single door trimmed, refitted and rehung. Rehanging and re-squaring a whole run where the boxes have moved is $220 to $700. A hinge swap on its own is $30 to $80 a door, and we do them in pairs.

About half get fixed. A door cupped less than a sixteenth of an inch usually comes back with a hinge adjustment and a finish on the bare back. A twisted door almost never does. We put a straightedge across yours in both directions before answering that.

Doors and drawer fronts across a whole kitchen run $2,200 to $6,600 fitted, or $180 to $330 a door. That is worth it when you want a different kitchen anyway. It is a lot of money to spend on 2 doors that need 20 minutes each.

No, and that is worth knowing before you spend $600 to $1,600 on a retrofit. Soft-close changes how a door lands, not how wide it is. Where the doors are binding on the frame, the hinge is the part doing the least.

Custom Cabinets Lynn repairs doors, drawers and hardware across Lynn and the North Shore. We measure your gaps at four corners and check the hinge before touching the wood, because you cannot put wood back on once it has come off.

$30 to $80 per door in parts and labor, and we do them in pairs. Once one has pulled out of your door the second is already loosening. Doing both now costs you less than having us come back in six months.

$60 to $180 per drawer fitted, with the hardware itself at $7 to $15 a pair for a side-mount runner. Soft-close runners that hide under the drawer cost several times that in parts. We price a whole-kitchen soft-close change at $600 to $1,600.

No. Soft-close changes how your door lands, not how wide it is or where it hangs. If the door binds on the frame, the hinge is doing the least of anything involved. That is worth knowing before you spend $600 to $1,600.

Any modern hinge built for the standard 35mm hole will fit, which covers Blum and most of the market. Older front-frame hinges have no such hole, so moving your run over means drilling every door. We price that as a real job.

A Blum runner that hides under the drawer is rated for a drawer full of pots. Your widest pan drawer gets past that easily, which is why we put a heavier side-mount runner under it rather than one chosen by width.

Custom Cabinets Lynn repairs hardware across Lynn and the North Shore at $30 to $80 a door and $60 to $180 a drawer. We match what is already on your kitchen where we can, and parts come through North Reading in a couple of days.

It depends what yours is made of. Solid wood and plywood usually dry out, and we repair those at $120 to $600. Swollen particleboard never recovers, so we replace the box at $400 to $1,400. The board no longer grips a screw.

$400 to $1,400 for the base, including taking the old one out and fitting the new one. The spread is mostly width and whether your countertop has to come off. We check how your counter is fixed at the quote, because rebuilding in place through the front keeps that cost down.

Push a blade into the floor at the back corner under your trap. Sound board resists you and swollen board takes it easily. Then pull the kick board and look up into the bay beside your dishwasher. That is the second place this always shows.

No, not in particleboard. The board loses the squeeze that grips a screw, so your fixings let go even after it looks dry. A cabinet shelf has to hold about 15 lb per square foot for a week, and a dried-out swollen panel will not.

Not over the failed box. Any veneer we put over a swollen box lifts within a year. We replace that box at $400 to $1,400, then reface the sound ones around it at $150 to $450 a linear foot. You should see those as two separate lines.

Custom Cabinets Lynn repairs and replaces water damaged cabinets across Lynn and the North Shore. A repair is $120 to $600 and a new base is $400 to $1,400. We find the source before quoting, because a rebuilt base under a live drip fails the same way.

The reach and the thickness. Half-inch particleboard crossing 30 inches sags under ordinary kitchen weight. The industry standard asks a shelf and its fixings to hold 15 lb per square foot for seven days, and yours was never built to it.

$120 to $600 for most repairs. That covers a new 3/4-inch plywood shelf, repaired pin holes, or a hardwood strip glued to the front of the shelf you already have. The strip is often your cheapest real fix, because depth at the front edge is what resists bending.

A dropped bottom in a sound box is a repair at $120 to $600. Corners that have opened mean the joint has failed. We rebuild yours in dovetailed hardwood at $180 to $450, which is the fix that holds, and we build to your opening rather than a stock size.

Pull your drawer completely out. A box that goes out of square, has an open corner or a loose bottom is a box problem. A drawer that drags, tips forward or will not close the last inch is a runner, and we fit those at $60 to $180 a drawer.

A Blum runner that hides under the drawer is rated for a drawer full of pots, about 75 lb. Your pan or plate drawer reaches that quickly, which is why the widest drawer beside a range is usually the first to fail.

Custom Cabinets Lynn repairs shelves, pin holes, drawer boxes and runners across Lynn and the North Shore at $120 to $600 on most jobs. We measure the reach and the thickness first, because those two numbers predict a sag better than anything else.

No. The skin was pressed on with heat, and once it lets go the glue is spent and the skin has moved. Re-gluing leaves a line and a bubble you can see. New fronts run $180 to $330 a door, or $2,200 to $6,600 for a kitchen.

Because heat causes it. The ones that fail sit within about two feet of your range, a wall oven or a dishwasher that vents forward. The rest of your doors are the same age and the same product, and they are usually fine.

Yes, and we put a bonding primer down first, at $100 to $250 per door and front. What paint cannot do is stick to a skin that has already lifted off its board. So this works on your dated doors and not on peeling ones.

$180 to $330 per door fitted, or $2,200 to $6,600 for a whole kitchen with your boxes left alone. Most people replace only the two or three doors near their appliances. We match those to the fronts you already have.

Wood veneer at $100 to $250 per linear foot, or solid wood at $200 to $500. Both take heat in a way a pressed skin does not, so they are what we fit beside a range. Made-to-order doors run a 1 to 2 week lead, and switching does not add a month to your job.

Custom Cabinets Lynn replaces peeling fronts across Lynn and the North Shore at $180 to $330 a door. We map which doors have gone against where the heat is, because a new front in the same spot fails on the same schedule.

We cut them to fit. The end panel and the upright beside it get cut to the actual shape of your wall rather than closed with a tapered filler. That work, plus leveling the run, adds $450 to $1,600 and shows on your quote as its own line.

It is a tapered piece of matching wood pushed in where a square run meets a wall that is not. On a modern flat wall it is fine. Your plaster wall bulges along its length, so a filler closes the widest point and leaves a shadow gap everywhere else.

Because the measuring and fitting take longer, not because the boxes cost more. Cutting the panels to your walls runs $450 to $1,600, and plaster repair behind the old cabinets is extra again. A quote without those has moved the cost rather than removed it.

Often, and the measure decides it. Catalog boxes come in three-inch steps, so a 41-inch bay takes a 39-inch box and a filler. Where two or three of those land in your sight line, that run is worth building at $500 to $1,200 a foot.

We find the high point with a laser and set every base cabinet from there, packing down along the run. Your counter stays level and the settlement ends up in the kick board. A run set from the low end gives you a counter that visibly dives.

Custom Cabinets Lynn works on pre-1940 housing across Lynn and the North Shore, with the wall-fitting work at $450 to $1,600 on top of the run. We measure each opening at three heights and check your corners rather than assuming they are square.

$1,500 to $5,000 to strip and refinish a standard run. We add 20% to 45% where your old finish has gone brittle. Sealing and cleaning a pre-1978 kitchen adds $350 to $1,200, and you will see it as its own line on our quote.

Restored, in almost every case where the woodwork is sound. A dovetailed drawer and a front frame jointed in 1910 beat the 15 lb per square foot and 25,000 opens that govern new work. What fails on yours is the finish, the hardware and the drawer bottoms.

Two reasons. A power sander flattens the shallow shapes on your door in one pass, and nothing brings them back. Dry sanding is also out under the lead-safe rules in any pre-1978 room past 6 square feet of disturbed paint.

It comes off, gets labeled and cleaned, and goes back on. Most period latches, bin pulls and hinges are no longer made in any form, so replacing your set is not really an option. We match single missing pieces rather than changing the lot.

Yes, built to match rather than blended in. Catalog boxes never sit right beside your hand-made work. We build the new run to your existing shapes and finish both together, so they land as one kitchen rather than being matched after the fact.

Custom Cabinets Lynn restores period cabinetry across Lynn, Marblehead, Salem and the North Shore at $1,500 to $5,000 a run. We strip with chemicals and scrape by hand, because a machine takes the shape off a period door in a single pass.

Salt off the water comes in through your open windows and screen doors, then settles inside closed cabinets where nothing dries or gets wiped. Plain steel hinges, runner bearings and screws rust in that still air. You usually see it at two to four years.

$30 to $80 per door in parts and labor, done in pairs. We would rather move your whole kitchen to rust-resistant hardware at $600 to $1,600, because the run has all had the same salt for the same years.

Rarely. Your wood, plywood and finished surfaces hold up while every steel fitting inside them fails. That is why we can do this for hundreds rather than thousands, and why we will not sell you new cabinets over rusted hardware.

No. Road salt is a driveway and foundation issue and never reaches a kitchen cabinet. Yours is salt off the water, which is why we see it in Nahant, Swampscott, Marblehead, Winthrop and along the Revere shore rather than in the inland towns.

No, and that is the most useful thing on this page. A rusting hinge will not hold your adjustment, so tightening it again achieves nothing. Take one off and look at the body and the screw shanks before you spend an afternoon with a screwdriver.

Custom Cabinets Lynn works the coastal towns across the North Shore, at $30 to $80 a door and $60 to $180 a drawer. We fit the rust-resistant version as standard within reach of open water, and it costs very little more than the catalog part.

Usually, and what is inside decides it. We take an empty framed soffit out in a day. One carrying a duct, a vent, a pipe or a circuit we make smaller rather than remove. Anything structural changes your job entirely.

By opening it. We cut a hand-sized hole and put a light and a camera in before quoting. That takes twenty minutes and patches for almost nothing. From below, an empty soffit and one full of ducting look identical to you.

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot in custom cabinetry, or $150 to $700 semi-custom. Add $450 to $1,600 for cutting the panels to a pre-1940 opening and leveling the run. Fitting boxes you buy yourself runs $4,500 to $15,000 for a kitchen.

Not for an empty one. Cabinet work stays an ordinary repair while your plumbing, gas, wiring, structure and exits stay untouched. Move a duct, relocate a circuit or alter framing and your job crosses that line.

Only with the right hardware. A top shelf above your reach gets opened twice a year otherwise. Lift hardware holds a tall door up and out of your way, and a pull-down fitting brings the shelf to you. That is what makes the extra height worth buying.

Custom Cabinets Lynn opens and removes soffits across Lynn and the North Shore as part of a cabinetry job. We cut a hole and look first, then trace anything we find to both ends. A duct with somewhere to go is a very different quote.

$5,000 to $13,000 for a standard kitchen, or $150 to $450 per linear foot. Doors and drawer fronts on their own run $2,200 to $6,600. Your door material moves the number most. Thermofoil sits at $80 to $125 a foot and solid hardwood at $200 to $500.

Three to five working days on site once your doors arrive. Made-to-order doors and fronts take 1 to 2 weeks, against 4 to 12 weeks for a full custom kitchen. That supply gap is most of why refacing feels fast.

Usually yes, and the test is condition rather than material. We probe the floor of your sink base and the panel beside your dishwasher first. A swollen base costs $400 to $1,400 to replace, and refacing over it wastes the $150 to $450 a foot you spent.

Reface while the boxes are sound and the layout is staying put. New custom cabinets run $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 kitchen, and a semi-custom line such as KraftMaid sits at $3,000 to $11,000. Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 only beats those if your boxes have years left in them.

Yes, in most kitchens, because your doors are new and we set the gaps when we hang them. Where the boxes themselves have moved with the floor, rehanging and re-squaring the run is $220 to $700. That happens whether you reface or not.

Custom Cabinets Lynn refaces kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore, at $5,000 to $13,000 for a standard run. We open your sink base and count your doors before quoting, so your number is built on your boxes rather than on a square-foot average.

$2,000 to $6,500 for a standard kitchen with the doors off and sprayed, or $30 to $70 per linear foot. Per door and drawer front we charge $100 to $250. Your kitchen carries a 20% to 45% prep surcharge on top if it is in poor shape.

Four to seven working days on site, and about 30 days to full hardness. Your doors stay off between coats, which is 16 hours on Benjamin Moore ADVANCE and 4 hours on Sherwin-Williams Emerald. Nothing goes back on a shelf for 3 to 5 days.

Because the doors were not degreased. Cooking film sits on your doors, sanding polishes it rather than removing it, and the paint sticks to the film. You see it first at the handles and the top edge, usually inside a season, and no paint brand prevents it.

Something has to rough up the surface, but on a pre-1978 kitchen dry sanding is out. Past 6 square feet of disturbed paint the work falls under the lead-safe rules, so we wet-sand or strip with chemicals and clean down with a HEPA vacuum, at $350 to $1,200.

By a lot. Painting runs $2,000 to $6,500 against $5,000 to $13,000 to reface and $10,000 to $26,500 for new custom boxes. Painting keeps your existing doors, so it is the right answer when the door style still suits you and the color does not.

Custom Cabinets Lynn paints kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore for $2,000 to $6,500. We take the doors off and spray them rather than brushing them on the hinges, and we degrease the whole kitchen before a bonding primer goes anywhere near it.

$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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

$1,500 to $5,000 to strip and refinish a standard kitchen. You will also see $2,800 to $5,800 published locally for the same job. Your cabinets carry a 20% to 45% surcharge if they are in poor shape, because the extra hours go into stripping rather than finishing.

Only when the wood is worth showing. Refinishing puts your grain, your repairs and your sun fading on display, while painting at $2,000 to $6,500 covers all three. We would refinish solid maple, oak or cherry. We would not do it to a veneered kitchen with patched doors.

Carefully, and not more than once. The wood face on hardwood plywood is thinner than a sheet of card, so we strip those panels by hand with chemicals and stop early. A panel already sanded through shows a dark glue line that no stain will cover, and we skin or replace that one.

Five to eight working days on site, plus about 30 days to full hardness. Stripping takes us longer than painting because the old finish comes off in rounds. A brittle coating can need three passes before your wood is clean.

Not with a machine, and not dry. In a pre-1978 kitchen the work falls under the lead-safe rules past 6 square feet of disturbed paint, so we strip with chemicals and wet-sand. That also keeps the crisp edges on your older doors, which a power sander rounds off for good.

Custom Cabinets Lynn refinishes kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $1,500 to $5,000. We strip a test patch on one of your doors before quoting, because that is the only honest way to tell solid wood from a veneer face.

$4,500 to $15,000 to install cabinets you already bought, or $200 to $300 per linear foot for labor on custom work. Fitting and leveling into a pre-1940 opening adds $450 to $1,600, and one published North Shore installation came in at $28,564.

Three to five working days for a standard kitchen once the boxes are on site. Removal and plaster repair can add a day or two, because old cabinets usually take some of the wall with them when they come off.

No, where nothing else moves. The state building code treats cabinet replacement with no change to plumbing, gas, wiring, structure or exits as an ordinary repair. Moving a sink, adding a range circuit or taking out a wall does cross that line.

Yes, at $4,500 to $15,000 for a kitchen. We hang, level, join and fit boxes from any supplier, and we set the doors. We do check your order against your walls before installation day, because a stock run in three-inch steps rarely lands on an old opening.

It is a tapered piece of wood that closes the gap where a square run meets a wall that is not straight. It is fast and fine on a modern wall. In a 1946 Lynn kitchen we cut the end panel to follow the wall instead, at $450 to $1,600 added to the run.

Custom Cabinets Lynn installs kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $4,500 to $15,000, boxes supplied or not. We measure each run at three heights and set the bases off the high point of your floor, which is what keeps a counter from diving at one end.

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot installed, or $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 comparison kitchen. We charge $1,200 to $2,500 a foot for inset doors in a specialty wood with a hand-applied finish. Labor is 25% to 40% of what you pay on custom work.

4 to 12 weeks from approved drawing to delivery, then three to five days to install. We get made-to-order doors and drawer boxes in 1 to 2 weeks, which is why refacing finishes in a week and building does not.

In an old house, usually. Semi-custom at $150 to $700 a foot comes in fixed sizes, so your 41-inch bay gets a 39-inch box and a filler. Custom at $500 to $1,200 a foot is drawn to your opening, which is why it has no fillers in it.

Massachusetts caps it at one third of the contract price, or the actual cost of special-order material if that is higher. A custom kitchen is special-order by definition, so ask which of the two your figure is and what material it covers.

Four lines at minimum: the box material, the door construction, the hardware and the finish. Those four decide whether your kitchen holds up for fifteen years. A single total with no breakdown tells you nothing about any of the four.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds and installs custom kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $500 to $1,200 a linear foot. We measure each run at three heights and draw the fitting allowance into the panels, because no wall in a 1946 house is straight.

About 30% to 70% more. We charge $40 to $100 per linear foot sprayed against $30 to $70 for brush and roll. Your kitchen lands in the $2,000 to $6,500 band either way, with the spread coming from the finish and the prep.

No. Doors sprayed on the hinges collect dust from the room and run along the bottom edge, and the paint mist travels through the house. We take your doors away, spray them flat, and finish only the boxes and face frames in the room.

It is a two-part finish that cures hard and resists kitchen cleaners, and it adds $1,200 to $3,600 to a job. We would put it on your family kitchen and leave it off a guest bath or a laundry run. We cannot brush it on in your house.

Your doors go back on within days, and the finish takes about 30 days to reach full hardness. Put nothing on your painted shelves for 3 to 5 days after the last coat, because paint that is dry to the touch still takes stacking marks.

Yes, over a bonding primer. Your cost is in the prep rather than the paint, and a brittle or peeling old finish carries a 20% to 45% surcharge. Where your existing varnish is failing, we would strip back to wood at $1,500 to $5,000 instead.

Custom Cabinets Lynn sprays doors and drawer fronts for kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $40 to $100 a linear foot. Your doors leave the house, get sprayed flat, and come back hard enough to hang and adjust properly.

$4 to $15 per square foot of visible door and front surface, plus $1,500 to $5,000 to strip back to bare wood first. Your wood drives the spread. Oak takes a tone in fewer passes than maple, which we have to treat before any color goes on.

No. Stain adds color to wood rather than removing it, so your current tone is the lightest result available. Going lighter means bleaching, which is unpredictable on glued-up doors, or painting at $2,000 to $6,500 in something like Benjamin Moore ADVANCE, which covers your wood entirely.

Yes, if you want a real color change, because stain has to reach bare wood. We can shift the tone a shade or two with a sprayed toner over the existing finish, which avoids the $1,500 to $5,000 strip but cannot hide a repair.

Because maple is tight-grained and soaks up stain unevenly without a wash coat first. We put that thin coat on so the color lands at one rate across your door. Skipping it is the single most common reason a maple kitchen comes back cloudy rather than even.

Usually not, once stripping is counted. Restaining lands at $4 to $15 a square foot on top of a $1,500 to $5,000 strip, while painting a whole kitchen runs $2,000 to $6,500 without stripping anything. Restaining buys you the look of real wood rather than a lower price.

Custom Cabinets Lynn restains kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $4 to $15 a square foot. We identify your wood from the end grain and finish a sample door in your own kitchen light before committing your whole run to a color.

$150 to $700 per linear foot installed, or $3,000 to $11,000 for a 10x10 comparison kitchen in stock or semi-custom boxes. We charge $500 to $1,200 a foot fully custom, or $10,000 to $26,500 for the same kitchen.

Sizes. Stock at $100 to $400 a foot comes in fixed steps with a short finish list. Semi-custom at $150 to $700 gives you door, finish and some size choices, built to order. Custom at $500 to $1,200 is drawn to your openings, so it has no fillers.

Often yes, and the measure decides it. Where your openings sit close to catalog sizes, the saving is real. Where a chimney breast or an old pantry doorway leaves you a 41-inch bay, we would build that one run even if the rest is catalog.

Yes, and it is usually the best money you will spend on the job. We fit Blum soft-close hinges and slides at $30 to $80 per door or drawer during installation. A soft-close slide is rated for a drawer full of pots, which is what your pan drawer actually needs.

In a 1946 Lynn kitchen, usually two to four. We mark each one on the drawing with its width before you order, because a filler beside a fridge is invisible and one in the middle of your view from the doorway is not.

Custom Cabinets Lynn supplies and fits semi-custom kitchens across Lynn and the North Shore at $150 to $700 a linear foot. We check the supplier's cut list against our own measurements before anything ships, since a box two inches out is a delivery problem.

$400 to $2,200 for a catalog unit supplied and fitted, and $1,500 to $6,500 for one built to your opening. Your unit on its own is $300 to $3,000. So the biggest reason two quotes for the same width look different is whether the top and the sink are inside the number.

Three walls, and no way around them. A bathroom from this era is a narrow room with fixtures on three sides, so you have one width to work with. Stock cabinets jump in three-inch steps. When the nearest size leaves you two dead inches, the choice is a filler strip or a box built to your number.

Sometimes, and it is worth asking, because pulling the old unit out runs $150 to $500 on its own. A top that was tiled in or glued to the wall rarely comes off in one piece. One sitting square on a base usually does.

Most of one day for a straight catalog swap, and you have the room back that evening. Refinishing takes longer. The paint wants 16 hours between coats and 3 to 5 days before anything goes back on a shelf, and it is not fully hard for 30 days.

Yes, once there is solid wood behind it. Plaster over lath carries no weight on its own, so we open the wall and run blocking across your studs first. That is why a wall-hung unit costs more to fit than one standing on the floor.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds and fits vanities across Lynn and the North Shore. We take your opening at the floor and again at the counter line before quoting, because in a house built around 1946 those two numbers are almost never the same.

$2,500 to $8,000 for a fitted room with hanging, shelving and at least one bank of drawers, or $70 to $270 per linear foot. We build a dressing room as cabinetry at $3,000 to $25,000. Your drawer count moves that further than the floor area does.

More wall to spread the fixed costs across. Every closet job costs us the same planning, delivery and fitting whatever its size. So a longer run reads cheaper per foot even while your total is higher.

Only where our supports reach framing. Plaster over lath carries nothing on its own. So we find every stud along your run first, and in a house from 1946 they are not reliably spaced the way you would expect.

Yes, and the slope writes your layout. You lose the top shelf on the low side. So hanging goes on the full-height wall while the low side takes drawers and shoe storage instead.

It does, two to four years in, which is long after anyone blames the installation. Salt air comes through your open windows all summer on the coast. So we order hinges and slides with the maker's corrosion-resistant finish on them.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds walk-ins, wardrobes and dressing rooms across Lynn and the North Shore. We count your hanging feet against your folded feet before drawing anything, because that split decides the entire layout.

$1,046 to $3,210 fitted for a single wall behind a door, doubled up on hanging and shelved to the ceiling. By the foot that is $100 to $350. The spread is mostly about whether your run carries drawers and a finished face.

Fixed costs spread over a short run. The measuring, the delivery and the fitting are much the same either way. So a 6-foot closet carries the same overhead a whole room does, and your per-foot figure shows it.

In most of them, and it is the cheapest storage you will ever add. Shirts and folded trousers each take about half the height. So one rail becomes two and the strip underneath becomes shoes.

Floor-standing, in most houses here. A tower takes its weight to the floor and uses your wall only to stay upright. That sidesteps the whole question of what the plaster is hiding and where the studs are.

It is, because the shelf and its support strip in there are usually original. Past 6 square feet of disturbed paint in a pre-1978 room, 454 CMR 22.00 sets the method. So we seal the space and clean up with a HEPA vacuum rather than sweeping it out.

Custom Cabinets Lynn fits reach-in closets across Lynn and the North Shore. We measure your door opening and the closet behind it separately, because the difference between those two numbers is the part nobody can reach.

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot for cabinetry built to your room, with $200 to $300 of that being labor. A fully custom 10x10 kitchen runs $10,000 to $26,500. So we price your island as a share of that rather than on its own.

Not for a storage island. Work with no change to plumbing, gas, wiring or structure counts as an ordinary repair. Put a sink or a cooktop in yours and the job crosses that line into a filing with the city.

24 inches is the answer. The electrical code puts an outlet within that distance of any point along a counter. An island has no wall to bring one through, so we run the feed up through your floor while it is open.

Less than most people expect, and it depends on the top. Past the depth the box itself carries, we put brackets or a panel to the floor under yours. Anyone leaning on the edge of a stone slab puts real weight in one spot.

A peninsula, where the room is tight. One end fixes to the run you already have, so only half of it answers to the floor and it costs you less per foot. An island earns the difference where you can walk right around it.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds islands and peninsulas across Lynn and the North Shore. We level yours against the counter already in your room rather than against the floor, because that is the line people actually compare.

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot built to your opening, or $150 to $700 semi-custom. Add $450 to $1,600 where we have to fit your run into a pre-1940 opening. In this city that is the usual case rather than an extra.

In a deep cabinet, yes. The back third of a fixed shelf holds whatever you forgot you owned, and a pull-out turns that into space you use. In a shallow cabinet you can already reach everything, so your money is better spent on shelving.

Often you already have one. A counter with glass cabinets between the kitchen and the dining room is common in this housing stock, and yours may still be there behind a later wall. We rebuild one for $3,000 to $12,000.

Not standing up, in most houses from the 1920s. We build the run to come in as parts and go together on your floor. That is a decision we make at the drawing rather than a problem found on delivery day.

It can, and it is worth raising before you sign anything. The electrical code puts an outlet within 24 inches of any point along a counter. So a deeper backsplash or a taller cabinet that buries one means we put it back.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds tall pantry runs and butler's pantries across Lynn and the North Shore. We put a level on your wall before a tape, because on a full-height unit the lean matters more than the width.

$3,500 to $20,000 for your desk, a surround and the shelving over it. Shelving on its own is $300 to $850 per linear foot. Dropping the file drawers is usually the biggest single saving you can make on a quote like this.

Because you lean on it, and a shelf never gets leaned on. A 3/4-inch top bridging much over 3 feet sags for good at the front edge, and nothing brings it back once it has bowed.

Heavy-duty side-mounted slides rather than the standard soft-close we fit elsewhere. A Blum soft-close slide is rated to 75 lb and a packed letter-file drawer goes past that. So your file drawers go on the heavier slides while the shallow drawers stay on the soft-close.

Yes, we build it open at the back and vented at the top. A radiator boxed in behind a solid panel stops heating your room. So we build the surround as a case with air behind it rather than a sealed cupboard.

Yes, at anything over $1,000, which this always is. Massachusetts requires the agreement signed by both of us before work starts. It names the work, the materials, the total price, the payment schedule and the start and finish dates.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds desks, file drawers and shelving across Lynn and the North Shore. We ask what is going into your room before we draw it, because paper and a laptop need two different pieces of furniture.

$300 to $850 per linear foot fitted, or $2,000 to $7,500 for a full wall in one room. Height and adjustable shelves move your number more than the wood does, because we drill every adjustable position twice.

Length, nearly every time. Your shelf of hardbacks is at or past the 15 lb per square foot a shelf is tested for. Extra thickness helps less than a glued hardwood front edge or one more upright.

Yes, and that is where the hours go. The two returns beside a breast are rarely the same width and neither wall is straight. So we trim both cases to what is actually there rather than pushing them in and hiding the gap.

Both, in the same run. Fixed shelves cost less and never wander out of line. Adjustable ones cost more and let you change what the wall is for. So two fixed with the rest adjustable is the usual answer we give.

It is once we cut your baseboard, and we usually do. Past 6 square feet of disturbed paint in a pre-1978 room, 454 CMR 22.00 sets the method. So we seal your room and the cleanup is a HEPA vacuum and a wet wipe.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds shelving walls and bookcases across Lynn and the North Shore. We ask how many feet of books you own before drawing anything, because a case built to today's pile is full the day it arrives.

$1,600 to $6,000 for wall cabinets over the machines, a counter across them and a tall bay at one end. Your short run looks expensive against a kitchen at $500 to $1,200 per foot. That is because the planning and the trimming take us the same time whether the wall is 4 feet long or 14.

No, not a fixed one. The lid has to swing right open. So a top-loader gets wall cabinets hung high and no counter over it, while a front-loading pair takes a counter straight across and gains you the surface.

Yes, once we build the box for it. A plywood box holds together where particleboard swells along the bottom edge. We also hang your run off the wall rather than standing it on a floor that goes damp every spring.

A well-built shelf holds 15 lb per square foot for seven days with no sag and no joints opening. A row of detergent jugs sits close to that all year round, which is why we keep your shelf spans short in this room.

No, not for the cabinets themselves. Work that touches none of the plumbing, wiring or structure counts as an ordinary repair. Moving your drain pipe or adding a circuit is a separate conversation and a separate line on our quote.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds and fits laundry runs across Lynn and the North Shore. We measure your machines with the hoses on before we go near the walls, because the machines are the part of this room that cannot move.

$2,400 to $9,600 for the cabinetry in a room you already have. That covers an open bay per person with a bench, hooks, a drawer under and a shelf over. It leaves out framing, flooring and any building work, because those are a carpenter's lines on your quote rather than ours.

Usually not, for two reasons. Your wet coat behind a closed door is still wet the next morning, and the door is the part that gets kicked. Where you want the mess hidden, one bay with a door at the end of the run costs you far less than four.

Rarely, and this is the decision that moves the price. Two coats sharing a hook rail means your outer one never gets hung. So we would rather give you four narrow bays than two generous ones. The number of bays drives your cost more than the total width does.

Yes, with the panels built to move. Wood shifts about 1% for every 4% change in its moisture, and an unheated porch runs past the 25% to 65% band a heated room sees. So we leave the panels loose in their frames and finish all six faces before we put them together.

Usually, and you want it priced rather than discovered. Any pre-1978 home comes under 454 CMR 22.00 once more than 6 square feet of old paint is disturbed in a room. So cutting a bay into your original painted wainscot means we seal the room, work wet, and clean up with a HEPA vacuum instead of a broom.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds locker bays and benches across Lynn and the North Shore. We set your hook heights with the family standing in the room, because a hook nobody can reach turns into a coat on the floor.

$2,500 to $3,500 for a fitted seat with storage under the lid in a bay. We build a smaller nook under a standard window for $500 to $4,000, and a full-depth daybed with drawers beneath it for $1,000 to $8,000.

The angles, and nothing else. A bay's two side walls rarely come back the same. So your seat is patterned and cut to four angles rather than built to three measurements, and that fitting is most of the labor on the job.

Yes, with a grille in the front and the back left open. A radiator sealed inside a solid box stops warming your room and starts warming the seat. That moves the wood and cracks the finish along the front edge.

Drawers, whenever the depth allows them. A lid means clearing your cushions off every time, so it gets opened twice a year. A drawer under the front gets used weekly and earns the extra money.

It will read level to you, which is the part that matters. A bay sticks out past the foundation and the floor inside it has usually dropped. So we build to a level line and trim the base down to what your floor is doing.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds bay seats, nooks and daybeds across Lynn and the North Shore. We pattern your bay before cutting anything, because the angle at one end is never the angle at the other.

$1,800 to $7,500 for wall cabinets, a base run and a worktop. Stock boxes come in at $100 to $400 per linear foot against $500 to $1,200 for cabinetry built to your wall. In a garage we will usually point you at the stock version.

Not for long. A garage passes the 25% to 65% humidity band a heated room sees, and a solid panel glued into a frame splits out there. So we put sheet material or a panel left loose in its frame out there instead.

No. Keep yours clear of it. Your concrete sweats every spring, and a box sitting on it draws water up through its bottom edge. So we hang the run on the wall or set it on a plinth with air under it.

A kitchen shelf is tested to 15 lb per square foot, and a row of paint cans goes past it. So we give your garage shelving shorter spans and heavier boards than the same shelf indoors. That costs less than replacing a bowed one later.

One third of the price at most, unless the material is genuinely special-order. Massachusetts caps what anyone can ask you for at the greater of a third or the real cost of special-order goods. Catalog boxes for a garage are rarely special-order.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds and fits garage storage across Lynn and the North Shore. We ask how cold your garage gets before quoting, because that answer changes the doors and almost nobody thinks to mention it.

$200 to $500 per linear foot for solid hardwood doors and fronts, and $1,200 to $2,500 per foot where a whole kitchen is built inset with a hand-applied finish. We swap doors and fronts across a kitchen for $2,200 to $6,600.

Your gap ran out of room. Indoor humidity climbs from under 20% in February to the sixties in August, and your door grows with it. So the gap has to be set for the wet end of the year rather than for the day of the fit.

Five pieces, and the middle one sits loose. We surround a flat center panel with four frame pieces and never glue it in. We finish all six faces before assembly, so your panel moves through the year without splitting.

Sometimes, and the frame around your cabinet openings decides it. An inset door sits inside that frame, so yours has to be square and sound enough to take one. Where it is, we swap doors and fronts at $180 to $330 per door.

One built for inset, with three-way adjustment. Blum makes one, and the adjustment is how we walk a whole run of your visible gaps into line at the end of a fit.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds inset and shaker doors across Lynn and the North Shore. We set your gaps for August rather than for the morning we hang them, because there is no putting wood back onto a door.

$500 to $1,200 per linear foot for cabinetry built to your opening, and $1,200 to $2,500 where the wood is a specialty one and the doors are inset. Quarter-sawn boards sit at the top of that range because of how little of each log they yield.

In this climate, usually yes. It swells and shrinks less across its width than plain-cut oak for the same change in moisture. On a wide door panel in a house running from under 20% humidity to the sixties, that is what keeps your door gaps even.

Open pores, and nothing else. Oak takes color into the grain at a different rate from the surface around it. So a color change needs an extra tinting coat, while maple takes stain evenly. That is most of why restaining runs $4 to $15 per square foot.

Yes, once it has dried to the right level. Indoor work wants 6% to 8% moisture and reclaimed boards almost never arrive there. So they sit inside until they settle. A board cut wet keeps moving after we put the door together.

No, and be wary of anyone promising that. Doors are solid because you look at them, and boxes are plywood because they have to stay square. A box built from wide solid boards fights itself through every season.

One third, or the real cost of the special-order material where that is higher. Massachusetts sets it that way. On quarter-sawn white oak the material carve-out genuinely applies, because we buy those boards for your job alone.

In a kitchen, yes, and the sink base is the reason. A particleboard floor under your sink swells for good once the drain drips on it. We charge $400 to $1,400 to replace a failed box, which is more than the upgrade costs across a whole run.

Five things: the core material, its thickness, how the corners are joined, how the back is fixed, and what the drawer boxes and slides are. Massachusetts already puts the materials in any written agreement over $1,000, so all five are yours to ask for.

Two tests matter to you. Your shelf has to hold 15 lb per square foot for seven days with no sag and no joint opening, and your doors and drawers have to survive 25,000 opens and closes. Ask whether the line you are quoted was tested that way.

Not everywhere, though they are cheap to ask for. A dovetailed box is locked together so the front cannot pull off the sides. We get made-to-order boxes on a 1 to 2 week lead, against 4 to 12 weeks for a whole custom kitchen.

25% to 40% on custom work, which is $200 to $300 per linear foot inside a $500 to $1,200 total. If your quote shows labor well under that, it is either using catalog boxes or has left something out of the number.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds cabinet boxes and drawer boxes across Lynn and the North Shore. We put the core, the joint, the back and the slide on your estimate as separate lines, because that is what makes two quotes comparable.

Reface while your boxes are sound, at $5,000 to $13,000 against $10,000 to $26,500 for new custom cabinets. Replace once the sink cabinet has swollen through or you want the layout changed, because refacing keeps every dimension where it is.

Days for the fast work and weeks for a built kitchen. Your doors and drawer boxes arrive in 1 to 2 weeks, against 4 to 12 weeks for a full custom build. On a painting job the finish needs 3 to 5 days before you reload the shelves and 30 days to full hardness.

Not for the cabinets themselves. The state building code treats a straight swap as an ordinary repair, as long as nothing changes in the plumbing, gas, wiring, structure or exits. Moving your sink, adding a range circuit or taking out a wall is what changes the answer.

Two reasons, and both are on our cost guide. Our labor sits inside a Boston-area wage market, and between 45.7% and 58.0% of Lynn's housing predates 1940. That adds $450 to $1,600 of wall fitting and leveling that a national figure never counts.

It means we seal off your room and nothing gets dry sanded. On a home built before 1978, the Massachusetts lead-safe rules apply once more than 6 square feet of painted surface is disturbed. Cleanup is a HEPA vacuum and a wet wipe. It costs you $350 to $1,200 per job.

No more than one third of the total price, or the actual cost of special-order material if that is higher. A custom kitchen is special-order by definition, so its material cost can fairly go past a third. On catalog boxes it usually cannot.

Roughly $400 a linear foot between the ends of it. Custom is drawn to your opening in any width at $500 to $1,200 a foot. Semi-custom gives you catalog boxes with real door and finish choices at $150 to $700. Stock comes in fixed three-inch steps at $100 to $400.

Because indoor humidity here swings from below 20% in February to the sixties in August, and wood moves about 1% for every 4% change in its own moisture. A gap set in the dry months has nowhere left to go by the damp ones. We trim and rehang a single door for $120 to $600.

That is most of what we do here. We measure your opening at three heights, size the run to the tightest, and cut the end panels to follow the plaster at $450 to $1,600 on top of the run. The alternative is a filler strip, which is a gap with a board over it.

Yes, and they are often the better first job. We replace a vanity for $400 to $2,200 with the unit included, build a custom vanity to an awkward opening for $1,500 to $6,500 complete, and fit a reach-in closet for $1,046 to $3,210.

Sometimes, and it is worth checking before you spend anything else. A hinge swap is $30 to $80 a door and we do them in pairs. Rehanging and re-squaring a whole run after the floor has settled runs $220 to $700. Soft-close changes how your door lands, not how wide it is.

Four lines. What the box is made of, the wall fitting and leveling at $450 to $1,600, the lead-safe containment at $350 to $1,200 on a pre-1978 kitchen, and the start and finish dates. If any of those is missing, you cannot compare the totals.

Custom Cabinets Lynn builds, refaces, paints and repairs cabinets across Lynn and the twenty towns around it in Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk counties. Your in-home measure is free, our prices are published, and we will tell you when spraying what you have beats building something new.

Because they were bought at a catalog height and your ceiling is not one. In a converted shore house the fix is a taller upper with the crown carried to the ceiling, not a strip of trim across the gap.

The seaward side, and the line is short here. Phillips Point, Beach Bluff and Phillips Beach get the rust-resistant hinge and runner finish, and a house a few streets back does not have to pay for it.

$500 to $1,200 a linear foot built to your opening, which is where most of these tall rooms land, or $5,000 to $13,000 to reface sound boxes. The work above your uppers is its own line either way.

Yes, in parts. Nothing assembled turns those stairs or clears those casings, so the run is cut and finished in the shop and built in your room. That adds a day or two to the fit. We quote it that way from the start rather than after a truck has failed to get down the lane.

Not the cabinets themselves. A swap that leaves your plumbing, your wiring and your walls alone counts as an ordinary repair, so nothing gets filed. Historic district review sits on outside work, and the inside of your kitchen is not what it is looking at.

It corrodes the parts you never see. Salt comes in through open windows and settles into the hinge cup, where it rusts the metal while your door still looks new. Your doors go out of line somewhere around year three. By then almost nobody connects it back to the hardware chosen on the day.

Every day your windows are open. What corrodes is the steel you never see, the cup a hinge sits in and the bearing inside a runner. All of that goes long before anything shows on the face of your door. Your doors drift out of line somewhere in year three, and the hinge gets blamed for wear it never did.

It is often the better answer. Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 keeps your boxes and gets the doors off and the hardware out at the same time. That is exactly when the rust-resistant finish is cheapest to fit. What we check first is your sink cabinet, because a rotted one is $400 to $1,400 to replace and no amount of new veneer hides it.

In blocks, and it costs you nothing extra. One road onto a square mile of land makes a wasted trip expensive, so we bring what a job needs in a single load. Everything this side of the water goes together in the diary. That keeps a small repair here at the same price as one in an Essex County town on the mainland.

Because your boxes are usually not the problem. Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 buys new doors and fronts over a box that is already there. In post-war stock that box is normally the squarest thing in the room. What you are buying at this end of Essex County is the door and the finish, and both of those arrive with a new box anyway.

Hours, almost entirely. A door set inside the frame shows a gap all the way around it, and each gap has to match the next. That is the distance between $500 to $1,200 a linear foot and the $1,200 to $2,500 you get quoted. You are paying for labor rather than material.

No more than a third of the price, or the cost of the special-order material if that is higher. A kitchen built to your opening is special-order by definition, so a bigger deposit here can be a fair one. Over $1,000 the Massachusetts agreement is signed before work starts, and it carries your total price, your payment schedule and both dates.

Almost never, and that is the whole point of measuring this way. Your end panels get cut to fit the casing already on your wall, at $450 to $1,600 on top of the cabinets. Old casing splits on the way off far more often than it survives, and there is nothing in a catalog that replaces it.

No. Review in the McIntire Historic District applies to outside work, and the inside of your kitchen is handled the same as every other Essex County house. A cabinet swap that leaves your services and your structure alone counts as an ordinary repair, so nothing about it gets filed.

Often, in this stock. Stripping and refinishing back to wood runs $1,500 to $5,000 against $10,000 to $26,500 for a kitchen built new. Original doors on a frame of that age are worth more than anything that would replace them. What decides it is the boxes under your doors, and one that has rotted out is $400 to $1,400 either way.

$450 to $1,600. That is the wall-fitting line, and whether your quote carries it depends on which half of the city you are in. A West Peabody kitchen built in the fifties usually does not need it. One in the older wards almost always does.

Not for the cabinets themselves. A swap that leaves your plumbing, gas, wiring, structure and exits alone counts as an ordinary repair, so nothing gets filed. Moving your sink or adding a range circuit is the part that changes that answer.

If your boxes are sound, yes, at $5,000 to $13,000 against $10,000 to $26,500 for new cabinets. Your sink cabinet is what decides it, and a swollen one needs replacing at $400 to $1,400 whatever you do to the doors above it.

No, and it is worth saying plainly. Rumney Marsh and the Saugus River are estuarine rather than open ocean, so the finish that belongs on a Nahant or Winthrop quote buys you nothing here and adds to your bill.

Not honestly. Eleven villages inside twelve square miles means the stock changes between streets. A rate written off a photo is a guess that gets corrected the moment somebody turns up at your door with a tape.

The village, then the room. A post-war house takes catalog widths and a nineteenth century one carries the $450 to $1,600 wall-fitting line. That difference outweighs any door style you will choose.

$3,000 to $12,000, which is butler's pantry and wet bar cabinetry. Whether your house has that second room is what separates a shore-side quote from a Ryal Side one. We schedule the Route 128 towns in blocks, so a Farms address costs the same as one in town. The kitchen run is ordinary work either way. The pantry is where your money actually goes.

It reaches everything in your kitchen that opens and shuts. Salt comes in through open windows and settles in the hinge cup, where it corrodes metal the cabinet never shows. Your doors drift out of line two to four years in. That is why we order the rust-resistant finish on the shore side rather than offering it as an upgrade.

If your boxes are sound, yes. Refacing a standard kitchen runs $5,000 to $13,000, and your sink cabinet decides it more often than your doors do. A cabinet bottom that swelled under a slow leak never dries back, and replacing one is $400 to $1,400.

On the ocean side, yes, and the arithmetic is short. Plated hardware in salt air seizes within a few years, so a unit turned over twice buys the same hinges twice. The rust-resistant finish costs you a fraction of that on the first fit. That is why we specify it as standard from Beachmont out to Point of Pines.

Days on the fast product. Made-to-order fronts arrive inside two weeks, where a kitchen built to the room takes months. We tell you which of those you are in at the estimate, since on a Suffolk County vacancy the date usually decides the whole job.

The ocean-facing streets, and not the ones behind the marsh. Beachmont, Point of Pines and the Boulevard sit against three miles of open Massachusetts Bay frontage, so what reaches your hardware there is the real thing. The ground behind Rumney Marsh is estuarine, which is a milder exposure and a cheaper spec. We say so rather than selling one spec everywhere.

The wear rating and the schedule, mostly. A reception counter gets worked harder in a year than your kitchen does in ten. So we specify against a 25,000-cycle test rather than a home default. A hinge chosen for a house wears out early on that duty and drags the door out of line with it. We price the out-of-hours fit as its own line, because a room that cannot close is the real constraint.

Usually, and it comes from pull-outs rather than from length. Rev-A-Shelf corner units, a tilt-out tray at your sink and a tall pantry unit do most of that work. A room from the Rebecca Nurse Homestead era was never built with storage in it. Where your run stops against original trim we cut the end panel to follow it, at $450 to $1,600 on top of the cabinets.

$3,500 to $20,000 for the desk and surround built in, or $300 to $850 a linear foot for shelving alone. Height moves that number, and so does whether the shelves are adjustable, since adjustable means drilling every shelf position twice. Over $1,000 the Massachusetts rule puts your price, your payment schedule and both dates in a signed agreement before work starts.

Sometimes, and it changes the job completely. Taking a wall out stops being an ordinary repair the moment structure is touched, so the framing, the header and the filing all come ahead of any cabinets. We will tell you what the storage costs either way, because in a room this size the wall is often worth more standing than gone.

More than most people expect, and it comes out of the corners and the last foot of wall. A corner pull-out reaches shelf space that exists on the plan and nowhere else. A full-height unit holds more than the uppers it replaces. We measure what you already have before quoting, since the answer depends on which of those you are missing.

No, and a retrofit is $30 to $80 a door or drawer. Converting your whole kitchen runs $600 to $1,600, a long way short of new cabinets at $150 to $700 a linear foot. What it will not fix is a door binding on your frame, because soft-close changes how a door lands rather than how wide it is.

1 to 2 weeks if the job is doors and drawer fronts, and 4 to 12 where the cabinets are built to your opening. That gap is a queue position rather than a difference in craft, and it is the first thing worth deciding.

The work itself, the materials, the price, how the payments fall, and both dates at either end of the job. Massachusetts requires all of it in writing above $1,000, and your kitchen clears that threshold on its first line.

$500 to $1,200 a linear foot built to your opening, or $150 to $700 semi-custom, with the 10x10 comparison kitchen at $10,000 to $26,500. Which one suits you depends on the room rather than on the town.

The casings and the trim, mostly. A deep casing means plaster over lath and a wall that has had centuries to move, while a shallow one means a stud wall that has not. Nothing this far back from Massachusetts Bay needs a salt spec either, so the heating season is the only thing left moving your doors.

Not for the cabinets. A straight swap that leaves your plumbing, your wiring and your walls alone counts as an ordinary repair, the same as anywhere else in Middlesex County. Move your sink, add a circuit for a range or take a wall out and the answer changes.

Sometimes, and $4,500 to $15,000 is what fitting a kitchen you supplied costs. What that does not cover is boxes which will not sit against your walls. In the older half of this town that is a real risk rather than a theoretical one. We will look at the room before you order, because a return on a special-order box is usually not a return at all.

Enough to change how the room works, and it comes out of height and depth rather than length. A full-height bay at $3,000 to $12,000 plus pull-outs through your base run reaches everything a fixed shelf hides.

Often it can, and it is worth pricing against the cabinets. Moving a doorway is framing work, so the job stops counting as an ordinary repair the moment structure is touched. That is when the permit conversation starts.

$150 to $700 a linear foot semi-custom, which is where most of this stock lands, against $500 to $1,200 built to your opening. In a room this short the fittings move your number more than the tier does.

Because straight walls are not the thing you are paying for. Building to your opening at $500 to $1,200 a linear foot buys the box, the door and the finish, and none of those gets cheaper in a newer house. What does disappear is the $450 to $1,600 wall-fitting line, and that is real money back on a North Shore quote.

Not necessarily, and this is one of the few towns where it holds up. Stock arrives in fixed three-inch widths at $100 to $400 a linear foot, which is fine when your opening is a standard width. It is a costly compromise when it is not. Where you want a particular width or a particular door, semi-custom at $150 to $700 buys that without a full build.

Then you are on the other side of this page. A colonial-period house here gets measured the way a Salem or a Marblehead one does, with three height readings across the opening. Your layout comes off the tightest of them, which adds $450 to $1,600 anywhere in Essex County. A pre-1978 kitchen carries the lead-safe line on top of that.

Because you probably do not have the same house. Three centuries of stock sit inside these nine square miles, and a colonial frame carries a $450 to $1,600 wall-fitting line that a post-war frame never does. We write that line on its own, so two quotes from the same street can be compared rather than guessed at.

Most of ours are. We take the fit in an order that puts your sink and your range back in service at the end of each day. The trim and the adjustment go last. That adds time to the job rather than money, so what you are trading is a week and not a budget line.

$2,000 to $6,500 against $500 to $1,200 a linear foot for new cabinets. Painting is the right answer where your boxes are sound and only the finish has gone. In this Middlesex County stock that is more often than most people expect. Where the cabinet under your sink has already rotted, replacing that one box is $400 to $1,400.

Two lines, and both of them repeat. The wall-fitting at $450 to $1,600 and the lead-safe setup at $350 to $1,200 are per-room costs, so they land again in the next unit you turn over. We put both on the estimate rather than inside the rate. Your second kitchen is then a number you already hold rather than another site visit.

$2,000 to $6,500 against $10,000 to $26,500 answers most of that on its own. Painting keeps your boxes, your layout and your countertop, and it finishes in about a week rather than in months. What it will not fix is a cabinet that has already failed under your sink. That one is $400 to $1,400 to put right whatever color goes over it.

$450 to $1,600 a kitchen, and your quote should carry it twice if you own two. Stock from the 1890s has had a hundred and thirty years to settle, so we fit your run to the wall that is actually there. Skip it and a tapered filler strip goes against the plaster instead. Everyone who walks through your door sees it.

Because the replacements were plated steel and the originals were not. The cup corrodes where it sits in your door and nobody can see it, so a shelf hinge out here gives you two or three years rather than twenty.

Yes, and that is unusual on this list. Seven miles of shoreline around under two square miles of land leaves no street far enough back to skip it. That is not the case in Swampscott or Beverly.

The rust-resistant finish, named, on your hinges, your runners and your screws. A quote that says soft-close and stops there has told you about the motion and nothing about the metal, and out here the metal is the whole question.

The carry, usually. Moving a kitchen's worth of material from the street into a room takes hours that never appear on a catalog price. They are the same hours on any Greater Boston lot this tight. We show them as their own line, so you can see what you are paying for instead of finding it inside a rate.

Not on a tidal river. Frontage on the Mystic is a different exposure from the open bay, and the salt that corrodes hardware out on Nahant does not get this far up. Your hinges and runners get specified for the heating season instead. That is what actually moves a kitchen in Middlesex County.

Yes, and most of these jobs run that way. We take the fitting in stages, so your sink and your range are back in service at the end of each day. A build runs 4 to 12 weeks against a 1 to 2 week lead on doors and drawer boxes. That is why we push you toward the fast work in an occupied unit.

Yes, and it is the line most quotes leave off. Sand more than 6 square feet of painted surface in one room and the state lead-safe rules apply, 454 CMR 22.00. One wall of original doors gets there in about ten minutes. Your setup and cleanup cost $350 to $1,200, which means two quotes that differ by about that much are not the same work.

Days rather than weeks on the fast work. Doors and drawer boxes are made to order in 1 to 2 weeks, against 4 to 12 for a kitchen built to your opening. We tell you which queue you are in at the estimate. Fresh paint also wants 3 to 5 days before a shelf takes weight, so a unit handed back on day two picks up marks that never come out.

In a rental this is the strongest case we can make for it. Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 holds every dimension where it is, which means no plumbing move and no wiring move. What kills it is a sink cabinet that has already rotted through under the trap. We replace one of those at $400 to $1,400, whatever happens to the doors above it.