What Cabinet Refacing Actually Is
Refacing means your cabinet boxes stay right where they are. We take off the old doors and drawer fronts, cover the visible frames with new veneer or laminate, and hang brand-new doors and drawer fronts in the style and color you pick. The layout of your kitchen does not change. The plumbing does not move. You get the look of new cabinets at a fraction of the cost and mess of a tear-out — and most kitchens are done in days, not weeks.
This is all we do. Alexandria Cabinet Refacing does not do full remodels. We do not rip out cabinets, move walls, or redo plumbing. We take solid, working cabinets and give them a new face. If your cabinet boxes are in good shape but the doors look dated, scratched, or just tired, refacing is the fix that makes sense.
Why Homeowners Reface Instead of Replace
A full cabinet replacement means demolition: days of dust, a kitchen you cannot use, and a bill that keeps growing as the project uncovers surprises. Refacing skips all of that. The boxes — the part of the cabinet that actually holds your dishes — stay put. Only the parts you see every day get replaced. You pick a door style, from classic Shaker to clean modern slab, choose a color or wood finish, and pick new hardware. A few days later your kitchen looks new.
It also fits how Alexandria homes are built. Plenty of houses here — from Old Town rowhouses to 1960s Fairfax County colonials — have cabinet boxes that are perfectly solid but wear doors from another decade. Oak doors with that orange 1990s stain. Flat slab fronts that have seen better days. Refacing keeps what works and replaces what shows.
What We Do
Every job we take is some form of cabinet refacing. Full cabinet refacing covers doors, drawer fronts, and the visible frames in one project. Cabinet door replacement swaps just the doors when the frames still look fine. Drawer front replacement fixes the fronts that take the most beating. Wood veneer refacing and laminate refacing give the frames a new skin in real wood or modern laminate. Cabinet refinishing and cabinet painting transform the finish on wood you want to keep. And hardware upgrades — soft-close hinges, new pulls — finish the job.
We work in kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, and anywhere else your home has built-in cabinets. Read how cabinet refacing works if you want the full step-by-step before you call.
How It Works
1. You reach out. Call or send the form. Tell us about your kitchen or bathroom and what you want to change.
2. We visit, free. We look at your cabinets up close — the boxes, the doors, the finish — and talk through door styles, colors, and finishes.
3. You get a written estimate. Clear, itemized, in writing. Every project is different — contact us for a free written estimate.
4. We do the work. Most refacing jobs take three to five days. Your kitchen stays usable the whole time — no demolition, no dust clouds.
Serving Alexandria and Fairfax County
We work across Alexandria — Old Town, Del Ray, Rosemont, the West End, Kingstowne, and everywhere in between — plus Fairfax County towns like Annandale, Springfield, Burke, Falls Church, Vienna, and McLean. See the full list on our service area page.
Call (301) 679-9193 or send the form below for your free on-site estimate.