Custom Cabinets Lynn prices your Beverly kitchen off which half of the city it stands in. Houses at Prides Crossing and Beverly Farms were built with a working kitchen and a butler's pantry behind it.
That pantry is usually still standing behind a later wall, so the first thing we do is open the wall up. A room that is already framed and already plumbed is the cheapest storage you own.
Salt off Massachusetts Bay reaches your hinges through an open window on the shore side. That is why we order the rust-resistant finish there and leave it standard in North Beverly.
An estate kitchen was built for the person who worked in it, not the person who lived in it. The run is long, the ceiling is high, and the storage sits in two rooms. We plan yours the same way, so the china and the small appliances go back in the pantry. Your counter stops being a shelf.
In the 1800s stock we take three height readings across your opening and build to the smallest one. A floor that has moved for a century has pulled every cabinet above it out of line. Hang a square run against a wall that is not square and you get a tapered gap. The strip that covers that gap is the first thing anyone sees from the door.
Ryal Side and North Beverly ask the ordinary question instead: are these boxes worth keeping at all? We push a blade into the floor of your sink cabinet before we quote a reface. New veneer over a box with two years left in it is money you never get back.
Beverly at a glance
Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 is most of what we sell on the inland side. Made-to-order doors and drawer boxes take one to two weeks, which is why that half of the job finishes in days.
On the shore side your money goes into the pantry instead, at $3,000 to $12,000 for a butler's pantry or a wet bar. Rev-A-Shelf pull-outs and one tall unit make a single room hold what two rooms used to.
Blum hinges and runners carry 75 lb a drawer, and we size the one beside your range by what goes in it. Every figure above sits on our cost guide with its source under it.
- Coastal exposure
- Direct along Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing, easing inland
- Housing era
- Colonial survivals through a late-1800s industrial build-out
- What changes the job
- Estate kitchens with butler's pantries on one side, post-war stock on the other
- Sets your permit rules
- City of Beverly building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Beverly
A Prides Crossing kitchen where the butler's pantry had been boarded shut in the seventies. The working kitchen had been fitted out to make up for it. We took the wall down and put doors and drawers back in the pantry, at $3,000 to $12,000 for the cabinetry. We left the main run alone apart from new fronts. Hinges, runners and screws all went in the rust-resistant finish, because the water there is close enough to seize plain bearings inside a few years.
| What the job is | Typical range | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| 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 from Beverly
Why would two Beverly quotes for the same size kitchen be thousands apart?
$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.
Does salt air really reach the hardware inside a Beverly Farms house?
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.
Is a house here worth refacing rather than rebuilding the kitchen?
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.