Custom Cabinets Lynn prices the route from your street to your Everett kitchen before it prices the cabinets. Plenty of houses here have no driveway, no spare room and an outside stair, and that costs hours whatever you order.
So we stage your delivery in parts, and the boxes arrive in the order they go in. A kitchen dropped at the curb in one load sits in your hallway for two weeks and gets damaged there.
The water at the end of your street is the tidal Mystic River, not the open bay. So your hardware gets specified for a heated house, which is one line the ocean-facing towns carry and you do not.
We cover your stair, your hall and your floor before a single box comes through the door. The route in is the part of a house this work actually damages. An outside stair with a turn at the top sets a hard limit on what can be carried up it. Force a box past that limit and it arrives with a cracked end panel.
So we break your run into parts that fit the route, which means narrower boxes and more of them. One wide unit that will never make the corner is no use to you. Splitting a run costs a little more in end panels. It saves you a great deal more in the time it takes to get up your stair.
Where you own the whole building we take the units one at a time. The households above and below keep their water and their power through the day. Shutting a stack down to fit one kitchen is how a two-day job turns into four complaints.
Everett at a glance
Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 fits your house better than anything else we sell, because almost none of it arrives as a large object. Doors, fronts and veneer come in flat and go up your stair in one hand.
Swapping your fronts at $180 to $330 a door changes what you look at without moving anything. Labor alone runs $140 to $230 a door where you supply the fronts, since the door and the fitting are two different questions.
Where the boxes have to go we fit semi-custom at $150 to $700 a foot and take the install in stages. Your sink is back in service at the end of each day, and our cost guide shows where each of these numbers came from.
- Coastal exposure
- Tidal river and industrial waterfront, not open coast
- Housing era
- Not recorded as one era. Density is the reliable fact, not age
- What changes the job
- Access and staging on a tight lot, which costs time before anything is fitted
- Sets your permit rules
- City of Everett building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Everett
A second-floor kitchen in Glendale reached by an outside stair with a turn in it. Nothing wider than 24 inches was getting up there in one piece. We refaced at $5,000 to $13,000 and carried the two replacement boxes up as flat parts. They were put together on the landing. The carry and the staging showed as their own hours on your estimate. That is where this job differs from the same kitchen on a Middleton lot.
| 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 Everett
Why would this kitchen cost more than the same one in a bigger house?
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.
Do I need corrosion-resistant hardware this close to the water?
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.
Can you work around a tenant who is staying in the unit?
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.