295 Harwell Rd. Nanaimo, BC V9R 6V4
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Love your layout, just not the look? Keep it all, change the face. New doors, fronts, and hardware on the boxes you already own.
If your kitchen functions the way you live and the cabinet boxes are still solid, you don’t need to replace them to fall back in love with the room. Refacing keeps your existing boxes and gives you new doors, drawer fronts, and hardware. It’s the fastest, most affordable path — and for a lot of Island kitchens, it’s all they need.
If all three are true, refacing is likely your path. Want deeper storage, new cabinetry, or an island too? That’s a partial renovation — and we’ll point you there.
In the style and finish you choose.
Every door on new Blum soft-close hinges, with the handles you choose.
Crown moulding and matching side panels.
Want the drawers to close soft and quiet too? A reface changes the fronts, so soft-close drawers are an easy add-on. Just ask for new drawer boxes on Blum soft-close slides — and we'll price it right into your quote.
When a full kitchen goes in, every cabinet comes out — the sink base included — so the plumbing gets capped off and you’re without a working kitchen while it happens. A reface is a different job. The boxes stay where they are, the sink stays connected, and most of the work is doors and fronts coming off and going back on. For most kitchens, the on-site work is just 3 to 5 days.
We refaced this Nanaimo kitchen back in 2014 — kept the existing boxes and layout, and gave it new doors, drawer fronts, and hardware. More than a decade later it still looks current and has taken everyday family life in stride — the best proof there is that a well-done reface lasts.
More from this kitchen — click a photo to expand
If your cabinet boxes are solid and the layout works the way you live, refacing is usually all you need. We keep the boxes and give you new doors, drawer fronts, hardware, and finishes — a brand-new look without tearing the kitchen apart. If the layout fights you or the boxes are water-damaged, we’ll tell you straight that a partial or full custom is the better call. We check them on the free in-home visit.
Replacing tears everything out — boxes and all — and starts over. Refacing keeps your existing boxes and changes everything you see: new doors, fronts, hardware, and finishes. When the bones are good, refacing gets you the same fresh look for a fraction of the cost and mess.
The work in your kitchen is quick — most refaces are just 3 to 5 days on-site. Before that, your new doors and drawer fronts are custom-made to order, which takes about a month, and we book your install for once they’re ready. From signing to start-day is usually 8 to 10 weeks.
Yes. A reface doesn’t touch your plumbing, so your sink, dishwasher, and stove keep working the whole time — it’s mostly doors and fronts coming off and going back on.
Absolutely — that’s the point. New doors, drawer fronts, and hardware in whatever style and finish you choose, from painted lacquer to real wood. The boxes stay; the whole look changes.
Yes. Exposed cabinet sides get matching panels, and we can add or replace crown moulding and trim so it reads as one finished kitchen — not new doors on old boxes.
Often, yes — and once you’re adding cabinets, extending uppers, or changing the layout, you’ve moved from a reface into a partial renovation: same idea, bigger scope. See our Partial Renovations page for where that line falls.
"I’d heard about refacing, and couldn’t have found a better person to work with than Jamie. The cabinets are beautiful, and we reused as much as possible — no one would ever know this isn’t a totally brand-new kitchen."
Allison L. · Cabinet refacing
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