Anyone used Home Depot cabinet refacing?

[Anonymous]

Does it look cheap? Was it a bad experience?
I’m having trouble getting design people to call me back. We have solid boxes and I don’t want to change the layout of the kitchen. I like the idea of being able to just walk into home dept, look at samples and say I want this that and that. Instead of leaving messages with rolls who don’t call me back.

[Anonymous]

I was told that HD doesn’t do any of the work themselves - they sub out the work, so it’s variable depending on the sub. And these subs get paid less for HD work than they would for their own work or if they were sub’d by a gc, so usually the good ones don’t take HD work.

[Anonymous]

Replace the cabinets, not resurface

[Anonymous]

I got a quote a few years ago, they wanted me to pay about a $1k per cabinet

[Anonymous]

I have never seen refaced cabinets - from anywhere - that really looked good. Maybe they exist, but I have never seen a single example. If it were my choice, I would replace rather than reface.

[Anonymous]

Are you talking about putting new doors and drawer fronts on the existing boxes?

If so, the concern I would have is having the boxes matching. And if you have someone coming in to paint the box fronts, then is it possible to have all the doors and drawer fronts taken away and painted professionally?

Separately, we bought HD cabinetry and had our contractor install them. We worked with a HD designer. I've learned that some are better than others. But the cabinets turned out beautiful. We bought them toward the end of the year when they have their big sale on cabinets. Check to see if they still do this sale, and when. Made a huge difference in price.

[Anonymous]

Don’t do it. My cousin does this work and constantly tells me what a ripoff it is. It will not be able to stand up to a rigors of a busy home.

[Anonymous]

There are companies that do it, I would go with one of them over Home Depot - just google and you'll find several.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean professionally painting your cabinets or getting new doors?

[Anonymous]

Yes, definitely worth it. They would use the existing cabinets frame and just replaced the doors, drawers and outter looks.

[Anonymous]

We got our cabinets professionally painted and it went well. You might consider that route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are companies that do it, I would go with one of them over Home Depot - just google and you'll find several.

+1000000 use a local company. With HD you’re paying for a middle man

[Anonymous]

Good experience for us bc we couldn't deal with a months long kitchen Reno. It looks good and the company that did it was very responsive and handled any issues that came up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never seen refaced cabinets - from anywhere - that really looked good. Maybe they exist, but I have never seen a single example. If it were my choice, I would replace rather than reface.

We refaced our cabinets, i.e. completely replaced the doors not just repainted, and I highly doubt you would be able to tell they are refaced cabinets. It entirely changed the look of our kitchen and it did not require to trash the custom, good quality boxes we had. And of course it cost way less and was less disruptive than ripping out the entire kitchen.
I would not work with HD though. Find a company that specializes in this work or measure and order the doors yourself (countless cabinet doors places online) and hire someone to install. In our case we hired a local woodworker. The doors look great but the whole process took eternity so I would not recommend this particular person, but I am still happy with the outcome.