Custom Cabinets Lynn settles the hardware finish on your Nahant kitchen before anybody talks about door styles. Nowhere on Little Nahant or Big Nahant sits more than a few hundred feet from open water.
So your hinges, your runners and every screw behind them go in the rust-resistant finish as standard. Plated steel blooms rust in the cup, the runner starts binding, and your door sits out of line two to four years later.
We use solid brass and bronze on anything you put a hand on, since a plated pull wears back to bare metal here fast. Emtek unlacquered brass goes darker with handling rather than thinning, which is why people out here ask for it by name.
Salt arrives on an ordinary summer breeze through a screen door, and no storm is needed to get it inside a cabinet. So we seal your cut edges and finish every face before the boxes go together. Your panel is then not taking on moisture from one side and losing it from the other.
We look at what is already on your doors before quoting a hardware overhaul. A hinge that has corroded once is never the only one on that door. Cups pull in pairs out here. Changing one at $30 to $80 a door while its partner is already going means a second visit nobody wanted.
We schedule everything from the causeway out to Black Rock Point in blocks, so a single-door call here is priced like any other. One road on and off a square mile of land makes a wasted trip expensive. That cost belongs to us rather than to whoever rang.
Nahant at a glance
Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 works well on this stock, and we change the hardware over while your doors are already off. A hinge and runner retrofit during a reface is $30 to $80 a door, which is the cheapest moment it will ever be.
Where you want the kitchen built we work to your opening at $500 to $1,200 a linear foot, or $1,200 to $2,500 for doors set inside the frame. The 1950 to 1970 stock takes a catalog width without much argument, and the older houses out on the points do not.
The salt-air hardware line goes on your estimate with a name and a number rather than as an upgrade, because at this address it is not optional. Each price here comes off one of the seven tables on our cost guide, and every row names its source.
- Coastal exposure
- Total. One square mile of land with open water on every side
- Housing era
- 19th and 20th century, with a 1950 to 1970 growth wave
- What changes the job
- Hardware finish, not cabinet style. Plated steel corrodes and binds here
- Sets your permit rules
- Town of Nahant building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Nahant
A kitchen at Bass Point where the doors had been rehung twice in six years and nobody had ever looked at the cups. Every hinge and runner had corroded in place. So we refaced at $5,000 to $13,000 and changed the lot to the rust-resistant finish at $30 to $80 a door. The doors themselves were fine, which is usually how it goes out here. Salt goes for the metal long before it touches the wood.
| 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 Nahant
Does salt really reach hardware inside the house?
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.
Is refacing sensible in a house this exposed?
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.
How do you handle deliveries across the causeway?
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.