Your Swampscott kitchen is taller than the cabinets anyone sells for it, so Custom Cabinets Lynn prices the top of your wall first. These houses went up as summer property and were converted later, and the ceilings sit well above eight feet.
A standard upper then leaves a gap you cannot stop noticing. We close it by building the cabinets taller and carrying the crown up to the ceiling, rather than pinning a strip of trim across.
That crown has to pick up the same profile as your door casings, and matching it is where the hours in a quote here go. A ceiling in a house this old is rarely level across twelve feet, so we cut the crown to follow it.
The band of wall over a standard upper here is deep enough to store something in. That is the argument for building the cabinets taller rather than trimming the gap out. Two extra shelves at the top of a run cost you trim, not another cabinet.
We specify the rust-resistant hinge and runner finish out toward Phillips Point, Beach Bluff and Phillips Beach, and leave it standard behind them. Open Massachusetts Bay frontage stops reaching your hardware a few hundred yards back. A plated cup starts blooming rust two to four years after an install. By then nobody connects the two.
Where your boxes are sound the whole job is the faces and the top of your wall. Refacing at $5,000 to $13,000 covers both. We build the crown new either way, since that is the part a reface skips and the part you look straight at.
Swampscott at a glance
Cabinets built to your opening run $500 to $1,200 a linear foot, and a tall room usually needs them. Your uppers stop being a catalog height the moment the ceiling does, while semi-custom at $150 to $700 covers everything under the counter.
We spray your doors in a booth rather than in the house, at $1,200 to $3,600 added to the job. A house this close to the water has its windows open half the year, and a coat curing beside one picks up whatever blows in.
Our cost guide shows where every one of these figures was taken from. The line to look for on any quote is the one closing the wall above your cabinets, because if it is missing you are buying a strip of trim.
- Coastal exposure
- Direct. Open bay frontage on the whole eastern edge
- Housing era
- Late-Victorian and Edwardian shore houses, converted from summer use
- What changes the job
- High ceilings, so wall cabinets need a build-up above rather than a filler
- Sets your permit rules
- Town of Swampscott building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Swampscott
A Beach Bluff kitchen where the previous uppers had stopped at a standard height. Somebody had run a length of trim across the gap to hide it. We built the wall cabinets taller, cut the crown to follow a ceiling that was not level, and matched the profile to the original door casings. The cabinets were built to the opening at $500 to $1,200 a linear foot.
| 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 Swampscott
Why do my kitchen cabinets stop short of the ceiling?
Because they were bought at a catalog height and your ceiling is not one. In a converted shore house the fix is a taller upper with the crown carried to the ceiling, not a strip of trim across the gap.
Which side of Swampscott needs the rust-resistant hardware?
The seaward side, and the line is short here. Phillips Point, Beach Bluff and Phillips Beach get the rust-resistant hinge and runner finish, and a house a few streets back does not have to pay for it.
What does a kitchen cost in Swampscott?
$500 to $1,200 a linear foot built to your opening, which is where most of these tall rooms land, or $5,000 to $13,000 to reface sound boxes. The work above your uppers is its own line either way.