Cabinet Refacing in Bucktown

New doors and drawer fronts on the good boxes you already have, in the style your kitchen has been waiting for.

Founder-led since 2012, we reface kitchens across Bucktown's Victorian-era homes, its restored cottages, and its modern new-builds. We keep your sound boxes, replace the fronts in Shaker, Artesia, Mini Shaker, Flat Panel, Adobe, Asher, or Connecticut, and finish everything in-house so the whole kitchen reads as one piece. A brand-new kitchen without the remodel.

Update the kitchen, keep the character

Bucktown is three neighborhoods stacked on the same block. A gable-front worker cottage from the 1890s, a Victorian two-flat with ornate original millwork, and a 2000s flat-panel rebuild can all sit within a few doors of each other. What they tend to share is a kitchen whose layout still works and whose cabinetry has good bones, but whose doors have simply gone out of trend. That is the moment refacing was made for.

In an older cottage or Victorian, the appeal is that you bring the kitchen current without erasing what makes the home worth living in. The carcasses are good, the room is laid out well, and the character of the house deserves to stay. We keep the boxes, change the fronts to a style that fits the period rather than fights it, and the kitchen feels like it belongs to the house again. In a newer flat-panel rebuild, refacing is how an owner personalizes a builder-grade kitchen, shifting the door style and finish so the room reads like theirs instead of generic, while keeping perfectly good boxes in place.

And because Bucktown runs design-led, refacing fits the way these projects actually happen. A designer or architect specifies the door style, the finish, and the hardware, and our job is to execute that vision flawlessly. We slot into a specify-and-execute workflow cleanly, take direction precisely, and bring the finish quality that makes the designer look good and the owner thrilled.

How we reface a Bucktown kitchen

We start by confirming the kitchen is a candidate. At your Cabinet Design Consultation we look at the boxes, the layout, and the condition of the cabinetry, and most well-kept Bucktown kitchens, especially the restored cottages and Victorians, turn out to be perfect candidates for refacing. Then we move to design, choosing the door style, Shaker, Artesia, Mini Shaker, Flat Panel, Adobe, Asher, or Connecticut, and the finish, working alongside your designer if a spec is already in hand. We bring a finished sample to your island so you are deciding against the real thing.

From there it is craft. We replace the doors and drawer fronts and, critically, finish your existing boxes in our own controlled Pilsen shop to match the new fronts exactly, so the kitchen reads as one seamless piece rather than new-doors-on-old-boxes. Anyone can hang a new door. Making the whole kitchen look like it was always one piece is the part most shops get wrong, and the part we obsess over. We install higher-grade materials than the mass-produced cabinets most suppliers use, with door fronts in maple, white oak, walnut, and paint-grade. Every project is backed by the Fulton Revivals warranty, start to finish.

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