Cabinet Refacing in Western Springs

Love the layout, not the honey oak? Keep the good boxes. Change everything you see.

Founder-led since 2012, we reface the mid-century kitchens of Western Springs, the Springdale ranches and the 1980s oak in Field Park, into clean Shaker or Flat Panel that finally suits the room. New fronts, your existing boxes finished in-house to match, no months-long remodel.

Bringing Springdale's mid-century kitchens current

Drive the streets of Springdale, platted from 1955 onward on the old Dierks farm and Vaughan Seed land, and you are looking at one of the best refacing markets in the western suburbs. These are mid-century ranches and split-levels on generous lots, and behind a lot of those front doors is the same story: a layout that still works perfectly and a set of 1980s honey-oak raised-panel doors that have gone fully out of trend. The room is sound. The oak is just showing its time.

That is the textbook case for refacing, and it is not only Springdale. Field Park and Forest Hills, the mid-century brick Tudors and Colonials that trace back to Marshall Field's 1885 purchase, run heavy on 1980s and 1990s raised-panel oak and maple too, now squarely the kitchen the family has been meaning to do something about. When the carcasses are good, and in these well-kept Western Springs homes they usually are, you do not need to gut the kitchen to get a brand new looking one. You keep the boxes, you change the doors and drawer fronts to the style you actually want, and you let the room finally read the way the house is asking for.

For a mid-century ranch, that often means clean lines: a Shaker, a Mini Shaker, or a Flat Panel in a restrained palette that honors the period instead of fighting it. Drop a heavy traditional kitchen into a 1960s ranch and it reads wrong. We know the difference, because we have refaced these homes across Western Springs, and we design to the architecture in front of us. The result is a kitchen that suits the home, on the layout the family has used for years.

How a Western Springs refacing project goes

Refacing keeps your existing cabinet boxes and replaces the doors and drawer fronts in your chosen style, Shaker, Artesia, Mini Shaker, Flat Panel, Adobe, Asher, or Connecticut, with new soft-close hardware throughout. The detail that makes or breaks the result, and the place the national franchises fall down, is the boxes. We do not leave them as-is and hope the colors land close. We finish your existing boxes ourselves, in our controlled Pilsen shop standard, so the new fronts and your boxes read as one seamless kitchen rather than a mismatch you notice every morning.

Our fronts come in maple, white oak, walnut, and paint-grade, built higher-grade than the mass-produced cabinets most suppliers use, which suits the solid hardwood already in so many of these homes. Because most of our Western Springs work is in occupied family homes, we contain the work zone and keep the kitchen as usable as the job allows, and we get you to the reveal in days rather than gutting the room for a season. Every project is backed by the Fulton Revivals warranty, start to finish.

Want to see exactly how it works, step by step? Read our refacing process at /services/cabinet-refacing/process/, and more about the service at /services/cabinet-refacing/.