★★★★★
Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
Cabinetry
Kitchen Cabinets in Dallas, TX
Cabinets set the price and the character of a kitchen more than anything else in the room. We fit new custom cabinetry, and we reface existing boxes when the existing boxes are worth keeping.
Reface, refinish, or replace?
Three different jobs, three very different prices, and the right answer depends almost entirely on the condition of your cabinet boxes and whether the layout is staying.
Refinishing means stripping and repainting or re-staining the doors and frames you already have. Cheapest option. Only worth it if the doors are a style you actually like and the boxes are solid.
Refacing replaces every door and drawer front and applies matching veneer to the visible box faces, with new hinges, slides and hardware. You get a new door style, a new colour and new function for roughly a third of the cost of new cabinetry — but the layout stays exactly where it is.
Replacement is the only option if the layout is changing, the boxes are particleboard that's swollen or sagging, or you want taller cabinets, deeper drawers or different internal storage. It's the biggest line item in a kitchen remodel and the one worth spending on.
How to tell which one you need
Open a base cabinet and pull the bottom drawer all the way out. What you're checking:
- Are the boxes plywood or solid wood, with square corners and no sag in the shelves? Refacing is on the table.
- Is it particleboard that's swelling anywhere near the sink or dishwasher? Replace — veneer over a failing box just hides the problem for two years.
- Do the drawers run on side-mount rollers rather than under-mount glides? Refacing includes replacing these, which is usually the upgrade people notice most day to day.
- Is there a dead corner, a too-small sink base, or wall cabinets stopping a foot short of the ceiling? Those are layout problems and refacing can't fix them.
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Cabinet styles that work in Dallas homes
Style is personal, but some choices age better than others and some suit the local housing stock better than others.
| Style | Reads as | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|
| Shaker | Safe, warm, hard to date | Almost anything — the default for good reason |
| Flat-panel / slab | Modern, quiet, minimal | Newer builds, open-concept spaces, high-gloss or matte lacquer |
| Inset | Furniture-grade, traditional, expensive | Period homes and high-end renovations; the most demanding to build and install well |
| Beaded inset | Formal, detailed | Traditional and transitional houses where the kitchen should feel built-in |
| Two-tone | Considered, breaks up a big run | Large kitchens and islands — a darker island against lighter perimeter cabinets |
The storage that actually gets used
Internal fittings are where a kitchen stops being a set of boxes and starts working. The ones our clients tell us they'd fit again:
- Deep pan drawers instead of a base cabinet with a shelf — the single biggest day-to-day improvement in most kitchens.
- A pull-out pantry beside the oven for oils, spices and everything you reach for while cooking.
- Corner solutions — a properly engineered corner pull-out reclaims a cubic metre of space that was previously unreachable.
- A bin pull-out under the sink with separate recycling, so bins aren't standing in the room.
- Under-cabinet lighting on a separate switch, wired during the remodel rather than stuck on afterwards.
- Cabinets run to the ceiling. Costs a little more; removes the dust shelf and makes the room read taller.
Lead times
Cabinetry sets the schedule for the whole project, so it's worth knowing the numbers before you plan around a date.
- Refacing: roughly 2 to 4 weeks from order to install; the install itself is about a week and you keep using the kitchen for most of it.
- Semi-custom cabinetry: typically 4 to 8 weeks from the day the order is signed off.
- Full custom cabinetry: typically 8 to 12 weeks, occasionally longer for specialist finishes or inset construction.
- Nothing is ordered until measurements are verified on site after demo, because a 6mm error at order stage becomes a very visible gap at install.
Recent work
Recent kitchen cabinets projects
How we work
One team, five steps, no surprises
Most remodels go wrong in the gaps — between the drawing and the build, between one trade leaving and the next arriving. We run design and construction under one contract so there are no gaps to fall into.
Free consultation
01
Free consultation
We come to your home, measure, and talk through what's working and what isn't. No charge, no obligation.
Design & selections
02
Design & selections
Layout drawings, 3D views and a materials list, so you see the finished room before you commit.
Fixed-price proposal
03
Fixed-price proposal
A line-item scope and a written schedule. You know the number before anything is torn out.
Build
04
Build
One crew, one project manager, a locked schedule and daily site clean-down.
Walkthrough
05
Walkthrough
We walk the finished space together, list anything that isn't right, and fix it before you pay the balance.
Where we work
Kitchen cabinets across Dallas–Fort Worth
We work throughout Dallas and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth area. Below is where we run projects most often — call us if your neighborhood isn't listed.
Carrollton
Farmers Branch
Garland
Irving
Mesquite
Rowlett
Rockwall
Allen
McKinney
Lewisville
Grand Prairie
Arlington
Bluffview
Dallas County
Reviews
What Dallas homeowners say
Every review below is a real Google review from a completed project.
★★★★★
Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
★★★★★
Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
Questions
Frequently asked questions
If the boxes are sound and the layout works, yes — it's the best value in this trade. You get a new door style, new colour, new hardware and new drawer function for roughly a third of the cost of new cabinetry, in about a week rather than two months. If the layout is wrong or the boxes are failing, refacing is money spent papering over the actual problem.
A properly prepped and sprayed factory finish will outlast a brushed on-site repaint by years. The failure points are always the same — the door edges beside the sink and the drawer fronts under the cooktop. Conversion varnish or catalysed lacquer holds up considerably better than standard paint in those spots, and it's what we specify.
Sometimes, and we'll be straight with you when we can't. Matching a stain on aged timber is genuinely difficult because the existing wood has ambered with UV exposure. Matching a painted finish is much easier. If we don't think a match will be invisible, we'll suggest a deliberate contrast instead — a different island colour reads as a design decision, whereas a near-miss match reads as a mistake.
We work with established cabinet shops rather than pretending to run a mill. That means we can put you in front of the right line for your budget — stock, semi-custom or full custom — instead of selling you the one product we happen to make.