Four to twelve weeks from your measure to your fit. Building to your opening runs $500 to $1,200 a foot, or $10,000 to $26,500 for a 10x10 kitchen. Then the finish needs 3 to 5 days before your shelves go back and 30 days to full hardness.
When you ask Custom Cabinets Lynn for a date, the honest answer is that your house decides most of it. A square opening in a newer house sits at the short end. A pre-1940 kitchen where nothing is plumb sits at the long end, and we would rather tell you that at the estimate than at week six.
The first stretch is drawing, not building. We measure each of your openings at three heights, take the layout off the tightest, and work out where every upright, filler and scribe lands before a panel is cut. In a room that is out of square, that survey is the difference between cabinets that fit and cabinets that get modified on your floor.
Your paperwork sits outside all of that. Putting cabinets back in the same places counts as an ordinary repair, so nothing gets filed and nothing gets inspected. Move your sink, add a range circuit or take out a wall and a permit goes in front of your fitting date. That is why we ask what is moving behind your boxes before we quote you a week. The permit question has a page of its own.
Building is the middle of it. Your boxes get cut, grooved and glued, your doors get made and your drawer boxes get dovetailed. None of it starts until your material is in. The wood and the door style move this further than the size of your kitchen does. An inset door and a stock overlay are not the same amount of work.
Finishing is the part people forget. Sprayed doors have to harden before they can be stacked, moved and hung, and rushing that is how a new kitchen arrives with handling marks in it.
If that timeline does not suit you, the fast half of the trade is on our cabinet cost guide. How long refacing takes counts it in days rather than weeks.
Related questions
What pushes a build to the twelve-week end?
An unusual wood, an inset door, or a room where every opening needs its own drawing. Inset and hand-finished work is the $1,200 to $2,500 a foot band, and the hours spent getting the gaps even are most of what you are paying for.
Can I have part of the kitchen early?
Usually not, and it rarely helps. Your run is set out as one piece so the gaps line up across it, and fitting half of it now means leveling the whole thing twice. What we can do is get your doors and drawer fronts moving first if that is what you are waiting on.
Do I have to be without a kitchen for the whole time?
No. Your existing cabinets stay in use until the week we fit, so what you lose is the install rather than the build. If you cannot lose a kitchen at all, refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 keeps yours running throughout.