New doors, drawer fronts, and veneer over your existing boxes — the room transforms in days, not weeks.
Refacing keeps your existing cabinet boxes and replaces everything you see and touch: new doors, new drawer fronts, matching veneer on the frames, new hinges and hardware. When the layout works and the boxes are sound, it delivers a new-looking kitchen for roughly half the cost of new cabinetry.
Shaker, slab, raised-panel, or inset-look — the style that fits your house, factory-finished.
Matched to the doors, with soft-close glides where the old hardware allows.
Real wood or laminate veneer applied to every visible frame surface — the boxes disappear.
Concealed hinges that end the slam — the upgrade people notice daily.
Pulls and knobs in the finish that ties the room together.
Crown, light rail, and end panels that make refaced cabinets read as custom work.
Wilmington’s post-war brick colonials and ranches — from North Wilmington out through Claymont and Pike Creek — were built with solid plywood cabinet boxes that are ideal refacing candidates. The caveat is our humid Mid-Atlantic summers: quality veneer, proper adhesives, and factory-cured finishes matter here in a way they don’t in dry climates. A local pro will tell you honestly whether your boxes qualify — about half the kitchens we see do.
Typically 40–60% of comparable new cabinetry, and it’s done in days rather than weeks.
Sound, square boxes with a layout you like = yes. Swollen particleboard, water damage, or a layout that fails = replace. A five-minute call usually settles it.
With quality veneer and factory finishes, yes — decades of daily use is the norm, not the exception.
Describe your kitchen and what you want changed. We’ll connect you with a local Wilmington pro who can scope it — the call takes two minutes.
Call (302) 246-7362