Cabinet Refacing in Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque is a refacing town

The Northeast Heights, the Westside, and the older subdivisions along Paseo and Montgomery hold tens of thousands of kitchens with plywood cabinet boxes that were installed correctly and doors that are hopelessly dated. Golden oak raised panels. Pickled maple. Flat laminate from a seventies ranch. The boxes are not the problem, and tearing them out to buy new boxes is paying twice for something you already own.

Refacing replaces everything you see and keeps the part that was never wrong. New doors and drawer fronts built in our Edgewood shop in the style you want. Real wood veneer on the face frames and exposed ends. Soft-close hinges, full-extension slides, new pulls, new toe kicks. When it is done the kitchen reads as new, and it cost roughly half of what new custom cabinets would have.

What Albuquerque homeowners are choosing

White or greige Shaker on the perimeter with a navy, sage, or black island, from Nob Hill to Ventana Ranch. Flat-slab rift oak veneer for a modern Foothills kitchen. Stained alder for a South Valley or North Valley house that wants warmth. Every door is sprayed in the shop with a catalyzed finish, which is the only kind that holds up to fifteen years of hands at the pulls.

Reface plus a new countertop

Refacing is the moment to replace a tired laminate or tile top, because we are already there and the doors are already off. A refaced Albuquerque kitchen with new quartz or granite is the single best cost-to-impact remodel we do, and because we fabricate the stone ourselves it lands on one invoice and one schedule.

When we will tell you not to reface

If the sink base has swelled from thirty years of slow drips, or the boxes are particleboard that has met water, veneer over them is money thrown away. We check at the measurement, and if that is what we find we will say so and quote new custom cabinets instead. We do both, so we have no reason to steer you wrong.

Neighborhoods we reface in

The Northeast Heights, the Westside, the North Valley, Nob Hill, UNM, Ridgecrest, Four Hills, and the Foothills. Full details on our Albuquerque service page.

How we build cabinets for Albuquerque homes

Custom does not mean expensive for its own sake. It means the box is built to the wall you actually have, in the increment you actually need, rather than the closest three-inch stock size plus a filler strip. In a region where very few walls are square and ceiling heights change room to room, that is usually the difference between a kitchen that looks fitted and one that looks installed.

• Boxes. Three-quarter-inch plywood, not particleboard. Particleboard that has met water once — a slow dishwasher leak, a sink trap drip — swells and never recovers. Plywood survives it.
• Doors and drawer fronts. Shaker, flat-slab, raised panel, or inset. Paint-grade maple or poplar, stain-grade alder, hickory, oak, or walnut. Knotty alder is the regional favorite for a reason: it takes a warm stain and hides the dings of a real household.
• Hardware. Soft-close hinges and full-extension undermount drawer slides as standard. Not an upgrade.
• Finish. Sprayed in the shop, not brushed on site. Conversion varnish over stain, or a catalyzed enamel over paint. It is the difference between a finish that holds up to fifteen years of hands and one that chips at the pulls in two.
• Layout. Drawers where you reach down, doors where you reach up. Pull-outs for trash and spices. A pantry that uses the full height of the wall. This is the part that makes a kitchen work, and it is the part a catalog cannot do.

Typical installed pricing runs $350–$900 per linear ft installed depending on wood species, door style, and how much of the run is drawers. Full details on custom cabinets →

Why hiring one shop for cabinets and countertops matters in Albuquerque

Most remodels in Albuquerque involve two companies who have never met: one sets cabinets, another fabricates stone. When the countertop does not sit flat, each explains why it is the other’s fault, and you are left holding a gap, a tube of caulk, and two phone numbers.

We run both sides under one roof. Cabinets are set and leveled by our crew, then the countertop is templated against those cabinets, cut in the same building, and installed by the same people. If something is off, it is ours, and there is nobody to point at. That is not a slogan. It is the reason the business is structured this way, and it is the reason the seams line up.

It also has a practical scheduling benefit. One contractor means one calendar, so cabinets and tops land in sequence instead of leaving your kitchen torn out for a week while a second company finds an opening.

How a project runs with us

1. Call or send the form. Jesus answers, asks what you are trying to do, and books a time to come measure. Albuquerque is about thirty-five minutes down I-40 from the shop and we are in the city nearly every working day.
2. On-site measurement and a straight conversation. We look at the room, the plumbing, the walls, and how you cook. If a material is wrong for your situation, this is where we say so.
3. One written number. Template, fabrication, tear-out, install, haul-away, sealing. No per-item surprises after the fact.
4. Slab or sample approval. For natural stone you see the actual slab and where the cuts land. For cabinets you approve a door sample and a finish chip.
5. Fabrication in Edgewood. Cabinets built and finished in the shop. Countertops laser-templated once the cabinets are set and level, then cut on the CNC and polished.
6. Install by the same crew. The people who measured are the people who build and the people who install. One point of contact from first visit to final walkthrough.

Countertop-only projects typically run one to two weeks from template to install. Full cabinet packages run four to eight weeks depending on wood and finish. A complete kitchen remodel is usually six to ten weeks once materials are approved.

Typical cabinet refacing pricing in Albuquerque

Service	Typical range	Unit
Custom cabinets	$350 – $900	linear ft installed
Cabinet refacing	$150 – $350	linear ft installed

Ranges include template, fabrication, standard edge, tear-out of existing tops, install, and sealing where applicable. Exotic slabs, waterfall edges, full-height backsplashes, and structural changes move a project toward the top of the range. Every job is quoted individually after an on-site measurement. See the full pricing guide →

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Also serving the areas around Albuquerque

Our shop in Edgewood puts the whole metro, the East Mountains, and the Santa Fe corridor within a normal working radius. There is no travel charge anywhere on this list.

• Northeast Heights
• North Valley
• Westside Albuquerque
• Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
• Rio Rancho
• Corrales
• Bernalillo
• Placitas