Custom Cabinets Lynn writes your Lynnfield quote without the line an older town has to pay for. The post-war build-out that grew Lynnfield Center and South Lynnfield together left walls close to plumb.
Your openings take a catalog box, so the $450 to $1,600 that goes into fitting a pre-1940 room never reaches your drawing. We put that money into the box, the door and the finish instead.
That is why doors set inside the frame get specified here far more often than refacing. Every one shows a gap all the way around it, and the hours spent getting those even are most of the price.
A square room moves your budget rather than shrinking it. On the streets backing onto Lynn Woods Reservation that money goes into the part of the kitchen you touch every day. We spend it on 3/4-inch hardwood plywood boxes, dovetailed drawer boxes and a door that is allowed to move. Those three decide whether your kitchen still reads right in fifteen years.
Your door panel sits loose in its frame, and every face gets finished before the door goes together. A door set inside its frame leaves about half the room for movement that one sitting over the frame does. So the gap you set in a dry February has to clear an August without binding.
We fit Emtek solid brass and bronze pulls where you want them unlacquered. The plating on a cheaper pull wears through at the thumb inside a few years, and brass simply goes darker.
Lynnfield at a glance
Cabinets built to your opening run $500 to $1,200 a linear foot, and a 10x10 kitchen at that rate lands at $10,000 to $26,500 installed. Doors set inside the frame with a hand-applied finish take it to $1,200 to $2,500 a foot.
White oak is asked for by name here more than anywhere else we work. We cut it to show straight grain rather than the arched figure, and the doors come out of a shop in Lawrence in one to two weeks.
Where you want a sprayed shop finish we take your doors out of the house and spray them in a booth, at $1,200 to $3,600 added. Those figures and the tables behind them sit on the cost guide, with a source under every row.
- Coastal exposure
- None. Inland, at the top of the elevation range on this list
- Housing era
- Post-World War II residential, largely square and to modern dimensions
- What changes the job
- No scribing budget, so the money goes into the box and the door instead
- Sets your permit rules
- Town of Lynnfield building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Lynnfield
A house off Market Street, minutes from where Route 128 cuts through, where the walls came in inside a quarter of an inch over 14 feet. There was no wall-fitting line to write, so the whole budget went somewhere else. It went into white oak doors set inside the frame and a booth finish at $1,200 to $3,600. The cabinets landed on the top row at $1,200 to $2,500 a linear foot. Not one filler strip went into that kitchen.
| 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 Lynnfield
Why is refacing rarely the right answer in a house here?
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.
What makes inset doors cost more than overlay?
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.
How large a deposit should a cabinet job ask for?
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.