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Streeterville · Chicagoland

Cabinet Refacing in Streeterville

Cabinet refacing for Streeterville high-rise condos. Keep your good boxes, swap dated oak doors for painted Shaker or Flat Panel, finished in-house. Founder-led. Get your estimate.

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Keep the layout you love. Trade the dark oak doors for the kitchen you actually want.

A whole wave of Streeterville towers went up in the 1990s and early 2000s, and the kitchens inside them tell you so the moment you walk in. Dark stained oak or maple, raised-panel doors, a heavy builder slab that makes a compact condo feel smaller and more closed-in than it is. The boxes behind those doors are usually solid, the layout usually works, and the view out the window is the reason you bought the place. It is just the fronts that have gone out of trend. That is a perfect candidate for refacing.

We are a founder-led Chicago shop, reviving cabinets since 2012, and our home base is just down the lake in Pilsen. Refacing keeps your good boxes and replaces the doors and drawer fronts in the style you actually want, a clean painted Shaker, the easy-to-clean Artesia, a crisp Mini Shaker, a modern Flat Panel that lets the skyline be the focal point, or one of our recessed-panel styles, Adobe, Asher, or Connecticut. We lead with color and design because that is the real problem in these towers: not that anything broke, but that the look stopped fitting the life you are building. The result is a brand-new kitchen without the gut renovation a high-rise makes so slow and painful.

How a cabinet refacing project goes in a Streeterville high-rise

Here is the difference that matters, and it is where the national franchises fall down. We do not leave your boxes as-is and hope the new fronts land close enough. We finish everything ourselves, boxes and all, in our controlled Pilsen shop, so the new doors and your existing cabinet boxes read as one seamless kitchen. In a Streeterville condo where the kitchen usually opens straight into the living space and sits in full view from the front door, there is nowhere to hide a mismatch. That in-house, finish-everything approach is the whole job up here.

The building side runs the way every tower project does. We reserve the freight elevator through management, load in and out through the service entrance, pad and protect the cab and landing, and file the certificate of insurance your association requires before we start, all planned around your building's posted work hours. Your doors and fronts come off, the new ones and your finished boxes are prepared back at the shop, and the install goes on clean and quiet, with soft-close hardware throughout. From revival to reveal in a matter of days, not the months a high-rise gut renovation would take.

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In their own words

What homeowners say after the reveal

★★★★★

Joe the owner is a pleasure to work with. The quoting process is meticulous and he helped me devise solutions and help me update the condo's look while keeping costs reasonable. Any issues from walkthrough is quickly addressed and Brayan from Joe's crew did a good job painting the various parts of the apartment. Will definitely work with them again and recommend Fulton Revival to anyone looking at painting jobs. Give them a call!

Jenny T.
Interior Painting · Evanston
★★★★★

Joe and his team at Fulton Revivals were excellent and we are extremely pleased with the interior paint work done throughout our condo. They were professional and timely - communicating to us throughout the project. Joe had the team out quickly after project completion to address minor touch-ups post walk-through. Highly recommend and will utilize Fulton Revivals services for future work.

Carol H.
Interior Painting · Brookfield
★★★★★

We recently had our kitchen cabinets refinished by Fulton Revivals. Working with Joe and Krystal was amazing and we couldn’t be happier with the results! They were professional, reliable, and went above and beyond to make sure everything was perfect. Our cabinets look absolutely beautiful — it’s like we have a brand new kitchen! Their attention to detail and pride in their work truly show. We highly recommend them to anyone looking for quality craftsmanship and outstanding service.

Margaret P.
Cabinet Refinishing · Deerfield

Streeterville questions

Questions we hear most

What is cabinet refacing?
Refacing replaces your cabinet doors and drawer fronts with brand-new ones in the style you choose, while keeping your existing cabinet boxes in place. We then finish those boxes to match, so you get a completely new-looking kitchen without tearing out the cabinetry or redoing the layout. If your boxes are solid but the look is dated, refacing transforms the kitchen for far less disruption than a full remodel.
How much does cabinet refacing cost in Chicago?
Refacing typically runs $250 to $450 per door and drawer front. To put that in perspective, a full kitchen remodel often starts around $400 per square foot, so a 15-by-15 kitchen can climb to $75,000 to $100,000. Refacing gets you a brand-new look for a fraction of that. Where you land depends on the door style and detail, your materials, one color or two-tone, and the condition and construction of your existing boxes. For a full breakdown, see our cost guide.
Cabinet refacing vs. replacing or remodeling: which is better?
It comes down to your boxes. If your cabinet boxes are solid and your layout works, refacing gives you the new look you want with far less cost, demolition, and downtime than ripping everything out. A full remodel only makes sense when the boxes are failing or you're changing the footprint of the kitchen. Most kitchens we see are perfect refacing candidates that don't need a teardown.
Is cabinet refacing worth it?
For the right kitchen, absolutely. You keep the good bones, skip the demolition, and walk away with cabinetry that looks brand new in a style you actually chose, usually in well under two weeks. The value is highest when your boxes are sound and it's only the doors, fronts, and finish that have aged out of style.
How long does cabinet refacing take?
A typical reface runs about 5 to 10 working days. We finish your existing boxes on-site, build and finish the new doors and drawer fronts at our shop, then come back to hang and adjust everything. The install side takes a little longer than a paint job, because dialing in all-new doors and fronts so they sit square and even is precise work.
Am I a good candidate for cabinet refacing?
The simplest test: if you like how your kitchen functions but not how it looks, you're a strong candidate. Refacing keeps your existing boxes, the good bones, and replaces the doors and fronts, so you get a new-looking kitchen without redoing the whole thing. Most kitchens we reface are honey-oak or golden-oak, arch-top cabinets from the early-to-mid 2000s, dated and aged out of style, where the finish has faded and the hardware is wearing.
What door styles do you offer?
Seven curated styles: Shaker, Artesia (a Shaker with a 45-degree beveled inside edge, our most popular), Mini Shaker, Flat Panel, Adobe, Asher, and Connecticut. Together they cover everything from clean and modern to warm and traditional. They're all the same price, so you choose on the look you love, not on budget.
What are the most common types of cabinet doors?
The most common cabinet door styles are Shaker (a flat recessed center panel in a square frame), flat panel or slab (a single smooth front), and Artesia (a Shaker with a 45-degree beveled inside edge that reads more custom). There's also the Mini Shaker, sometimes called a slim shaker, which narrows the frame for a tighter, more modern look. We offer seven curated styles built around these profiles.
What's the difference between inset and overlay cabinet doors?
It's about how the door sits on the cabinet box. Overlay doors rest on top of the frame and cover most or all of it, which is what nearly every modern kitchen uses. Inset doors sit flush inside the frame, like fine furniture, for a more traditional, built-in look that costs more and requires precise fitting. Our refacing uses overlay doors.
Do different door styles cost more than others?
No. All seven door styles are priced the same. What changes the price is the wood you choose, not the style. We offer paint grade, Select maple, and white oak (plain sawn, quarter sawn, or rift sawn) as our top three, plus other species on request. You pick your style on looks and your wood on budget and grain, and they price independently.
Do you finish the cabinet boxes to match the new doors?
Yes, and we do it in-house. After your new doors and drawer fronts are made, we finish your existing boxes to match them, painted or stained, so the whole kitchen reads as one cohesive, new piece rather than new doors on old-looking boxes. That matched, in-house finish is a big part of why a Fulton reface looks built-in, not bolted-on.
How long do refaced cabinets last?
A long time. Your new doors and drawer fronts are solid, new construction in real wood, and a quality kitchen cabinet has a working life of around 20 years or more. Because we keep your existing boxes and only replace and refinish what you see and touch, you get that fresh, new-cabinet lifespan without the cost and demolition of a full replacement.
What's the difference between refacing and refinishing?
Refacing replaces your doors and drawer fronts with brand-new ones in any style you choose, then finishes your boxes to match, so you can completely change the look. Refinishing keeps your existing real-wood doors, restoring them at our shop and the boxes in place, sanding back the old finish and applying new stain and clear coats so the natural grain still shows. Reface to change the style, refinish to bring back the wood you already have.
Can I reface my cabinets in a completely different door style than I have now?
Yes, that's the whole appeal. Refacing replaces your doors and drawer fronts entirely, so you can go from dated arch-top oak to a clean Shaker, a sleek Flat Panel, or any of our seven styles, regardless of what you have now. You keep your existing boxes and layout, and the look changes completely.
Will refaced cabinets look custom, or will they look cheap?
Custom, when it's done the way we do it. The difference is in-house finishing: we build real-wood doors and drawer fronts and finish your boxes to match, so the whole kitchen reads as one cohesive, built-in piece rather than new doors stuck on old boxes. That matched finish is what makes a Fulton reface look like it belongs in your home, not bolted on.
Can you reface just part of my kitchen, like only the island or just the uppers?
Yes. Partial refacing works well when only part of your kitchen needs it or you want a design moment, like a contrasting island or just the uppers. The main thing we check is that the new and existing finishes work together intentionally, so it reads as a deliberate design choice rather than a mismatch. We'll guide that at your consultation.
What kind of cabinets are not worth refacing?
We'll always be honest about this. Refacing relies on solid existing boxes, so if your boxes are water-damaged, falling apart, or made of a material that won't hold new fronts well, or if you want to change your kitchen's layout, replacement is the smarter spend. If your boxes are sound and it's only the look that's dated, you're an ideal reface candidate.

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