Cabinet Refacing in Albuquerque & Central New Mexico
New doors, drawer fronts, and hardware on boxes that are still sound — a new kitchen at roughly half the cost of replacing it.
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- Owner on every job
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- Free on-site estimates
JYJ FLIPS LLC provides cabinet refacing across Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, the East Mountains, and Valencia County, fabricated in our own shop at 2369 Old Hwy 66, Edgewood, and installed by the owner. Cabinet refacing with new doors, drawer fronts, veneer, and hardware, plus professional refinishing, for kitchens and bathrooms in central New Mexico. $150–$350 per linear ft installed.
- Service area
- 18 communities, no travel charge
- Shop
- 2369 Old Hwy 66, Edgewood, NM
- Phone
- (505) 203-5508
- Estimates
- Free, on-site, written quote from the owner
When refacing is the smart move
A surprising number of kitchens in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and the older parts of Santa Fe have cabinet boxes that are perfectly good and doors that are hopelessly dated. Golden oak raised panels from the nineties. Pickled maple from a 2004 builder package. Flat laminate from a seventies tract home in the Northeast Heights. The boxes behind those doors are often plywood, square, and firmly screwed to the studs. Tearing them out to replace them is paying twice for a box you already own.
Refacing keeps the boxes and replaces everything you see. New doors and drawer fronts, built in our shop in the style you want. Matching veneer on the face frames and the exposed ends. New hinges, new slides, new pulls. When it is done the kitchen reads as new, because every surface you touch and look at is new. The only thing that stayed is the part that was never the problem.
What we replace and what we keep
- Replaced: every door and drawer front, hinges (soft-close as standard), drawer slides (full-extension undermount), pulls and knobs, toe kicks, crown and light rail if you want them.
- Covered: face frames and finished end panels, wrapped in real wood veneer or a thermofoil-free rigid laminate matched to the new doors.
- Kept: the boxes, the layout, the plumbing, the electrical. Which is why the price is what it is and the kitchen stays usable.
- Optional: new drawer boxes where the old ones are falling apart, a pull-out trash cabinet, a spice pull-out, conversion of lower doors to deep drawers, and one or two new matching cabinets to fill a gap.
Refacing versus replacement, honestly
We build custom cabinets too, so we have no reason to steer you either way. Refacing wins when the boxes are sound and the layout works. Replacement wins when you want to move the sink, open a wall, add an island, or when the boxes are particleboard that has already met water. There is a middle option that is often the best value: reface the perimeter and build a new custom island with the countertop of your choice, so the money goes where the eye goes.
The one thing we will not do is veneer over a swollen box. It looks fine for a year and then the veneer lifts along the bottom edge. If that is what we find at the sink base, we will say so and quote you the right fix instead.
Door styles and finishes
Shaker remains the overwhelming request, in painted white, soft greige, or a deep blue or green for an island. Flat-slab doors in rift white oak or walnut veneer for a cleaner modern look. Stained knotty alder for anyone who wants the warmth that fits a New Mexico house. Every door is finished in the shop with a sprayed catalyzed finish, which is the only kind that holds up to fifteen years of hands on the pulls.
Pair it with 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 kitchen with new quartz or granite countertops 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.
How we build cabinets
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 New Mexico
Most remodels in New Mexico 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
- Call or send the form. Jesus answers, asks what you are trying to do, and books a time to come measure.
- 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.
- One written number. Template, fabrication, tear-out, install, haul-away, sealing. No per-item surprises after the fact.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 installed pricing
| 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 →
Cabinet Refacing by city
Where we install cabinet refacing
- Albuquerque
- Northeast Heights
- North Valley
- Westside Albuquerque
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
- Rio Rancho
- Corrales
- Bernalillo
- Placitas
- Santa Fe
- Eldorado at Santa Fe
- Edgewood
- East Mountains
- Cedar Crest
- Tijeras
- Sandia Park
- Moriarty
- Los Lunas
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Cabinet Refacing Questions
What is the difference between refacing and refinishing?
Refinishing keeps your existing doors and boxes and gives them a new sprayed finish — paint or stain. Refacing replaces the doors and drawer fronts entirely and covers the visible box faces with matching veneer, so the kitchen gets a new style, not just a new color. Refinishing is cheaper and makes sense when you like the door style. Refacing makes sense when you want Shaker doors on a kitchen that has raised-panel oak.
How much does cabinet refacing cost in Albuquerque?
Typical installed refacing runs $150–$350 per linear ft installed, which usually lands around forty to sixty percent of what new custom cabinets would cost for the same kitchen. The number depends on door style, wood or paint, and how many drawer fronts versus doors you have. We measure, count, and give you one written price. Call (505) 203-5508.
Are my cabinets good candidates for refacing?
If the boxes are plywood or solid wood, square, firmly attached to the wall, and dry, almost certainly yes. If they are particleboard that has swelled at the sink base or under a dishwasher, no — veneer over a swollen box is money thrown away, and we will tell you so at the measurement. The honest test is to open the sink base and press on the floor of it.
Can you change the layout during a reface?
Within limits. Refacing keeps the boxes where they are, but we routinely add a pull-out trash cabinet, convert a pair of lower doors to drawers, add a pantry pull-out, or build a new matching cabinet for an open wall. Anything bigger than that and you are into a partial replacement, which we also do.
How long does refacing take?
Doors and fronts are built and finished in our Edgewood shop over two to four weeks. The on-site work — veneer, hanging doors, hardware — is typically two to four days, and your kitchen stays usable through most of it.