Your Winthrop kitchen has almost certainly had its hardware changed once already, so Custom Cabinets Lynn starts by reading what went on last time. Seven miles of shoreline wrap around under two square miles of land, tied back to Revere by a single isthmus.
No street here is far enough back for your hardware to relax. What usually happened is that the original hinges gave up, and somebody fitted the cheapest plated replacements on the shelf.
Those failed faster than the set they replaced, so we would rather price the finish properly once than sell you the same repair a third time. It is a few dollars a door against a cup that rusts through and drops your door out of line.
The rust-resistant line goes on every quote we write here rather than on some of them. Your early twentieth century kitchen usually has sound boxes under tired faces, which is the better half of this problem to have. So we open a box before quoting anything. If it is solid, the whole job is faces, hinges and runners.
A door that has started to catch is nearly always a corroding cup rather than a worn hinge, and from the front the two look the same. So we take one off before pricing. A hinge is $30 to $80 a door, while a cup that has rusted into its bore has taken wood with it.
Where the faces themselves have gone we swap fronts at $180 to $330 a door and leave your boxes where they are. On your stock that is usually the right call. Salt takes the metal here and leaves the wood alone, so your boxes tend to outlive your doors by a long way.
Winthrop at a glance
Refacing your kitchen at $5,000 to $13,000 does more here than a rebuild does, because we would be replacing exactly the part that has failed. By the foot that is $150 to $450, and we put the rust-resistant hinge and runner finish on top.
Where you would rather build than reface, cabinets to your opening run $500 to $1,200 a linear foot and semi-custom runs $150 to $700. Neither figure moves because of the salt, and the answer to the salt costs a fraction of either.
The hardware finish appears on your estimate as its own line with its own number, so none of it is buried in a rate you cannot take apart. The figures on this page and the tables behind them are on our cost guide.
- Coastal exposure
- Extreme. Seven miles of shoreline around two square miles of land
- Housing era
- Built out 1860 to 1960 over an older core
- What changes the job
- Hardware has usually failed and been cheaply replaced once already
- Sets your permit rules
- Town of Winthrop building department, under 780 CMR
What cabinets cost in Winthrop
We were called to a Winthrop Highlands kitchen where every hinge had already been changed once, with plated parts off a shelf. Half of them were streaking rust into the paint underneath. The boxes were sound, so the work came down to new fronts at $180 to $330 a door. We specified the rust-resistant hinge and runner finish through the whole run. The layout never changed, because nothing about it needed to.
| 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 Winthrop
Why did my replacement hinges fail faster than the originals?
Because the replacements were plated steel and the originals were not. The cup corrodes where it sits in your door and nobody can see it, so a shelf hinge out here gives you two or three years rather than twenty.
Does the whole town need the rust-resistant hardware?
Yes, and that is unusual on this list. Seven miles of shoreline around under two square miles of land leaves no street far enough back to skip it. That is not the case in Swampscott or Beverly.
What should the hardware line on my quote actually say?
The rust-resistant finish, named, on your hinges, your runners and your screws. A quote that says soft-close and stops there has told you about the motion and nothing about the metal, and out here the metal is the whole question.