2026 local ranges · every figure attributed · none of them is a quote
Cabinet Refacing Cost in Murfreesboro, TN
Cabinet refacing costs $4,500 to $13,000 in Murfreesboro, with a standard kitchen at $5,000 to $11,000. Painting the doors you already have is $1,500 to $6,000, and tearing the boxes out is $15,000 to $30,000 or more.
Those are the local market ranges, not your price. What puts you inside one of them is on this page.
- Local figures only — national averages are not blended in
- Every route priced beside every other, not just ours
- What moves a number inside its range, stated plainly
Ranges are for planning. Someone attends, counts the doors and drawer fronts, and you get one fixed figure in writing.
Every page ranking for this question is a directory or another city
Search what refacing costs in Murfreesboro and you get homeyou, Angi, a national retailer's cost guide, and a pricing page written for Nashville.
Those pages have to describe the whole country, so they publish a range wide enough to contain it. That is why the national figures put a small kitchen at $1,000 to $3,500 while the local floor here is $4,500.
Both numbers are real. Only one of them is about Murfreesboro, and averaging them produces a third number that nothing supports.
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Every route, priced against every other
These are the 2026 Murfreesboro ranges, captured from live local search data on 31 August 2026. They are ranges for planning, never a quote — the fixed number goes on the written quote after someone has counted your doors and drawer fronts.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| Refacing — new fronts, box faces veneered, carcasses stay | ||
| Standard kitchen | all fronts replaced, visible box faces veneered to match | $5,000–$11,000 |
| Full local range | small kitchen to large, laminate fronts through solid wood | $4,500–$13,000 |
| Angi’s Murfreesboro figure | the same work, as reported locally | $4,500–$10,600 |
| Painting — the doors you have, sprayed a new color | ||
| Small kitchen | 10–15 doors and drawer fronts | $1,500–$3,200 |
| Standard kitchen | 20–30 doors and drawer fronts | $3,500–$6,000 |
| Large or custom kitchen | 30+ fronts, island included | $6,500–$9,000 |
| Where most jobs land | the local mid-range across all sizes | $2,195–$3,056 |
| Refinishing — old finish stripped off, wood grain kept | ||
| A typical kitchen | existing doors taken back and recoated | $1,500–$3,500 |
| Full replacement — the boxes come out | ||
| New cabinets throughout | carcasses removed, new cabinets built and fitted | $15,000–$30,000+ |
What moves a number inside its range: the door and drawer count, the front material, the door profile, the overlay you move to, whether hinges and hardware are included, how many cabinet ends count as visible, and whether the finish is sprayed off site or applied in place. One local per-unit rate seen publicly in a Murfreesboro homeowners' thread is about $65 per door plus $40 per drawer — quoted here as what a local per-unit price looks like, not as ours.
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What each of those numbers buys
what comes off, what stays
The prices differ because the jobs differ. This is the difference, drawn: what leaves your kitchen on a truck in each of the three routes.
The five things that move your number
Read these before you compare quotes. Four of the five are decisions, which means they are negotiable.
The door and drawer count
Cabinet work is priced per front, so the count is the figure every other line is multiplied by, and it is also the figure most quotes never state. A galley kitchen with 14 fronts and an L-shaped kitchen with an island and 34 are not the same job and cannot be compared with a single per-foot number. Every quote we write states the count we found, so you can check it yourself and hold every other quote to the same figure.
The front material
Material is the largest single driver of a refacing price and the spread is wide. Rigid thermofoil is a routed one-piece MDF door with a vinyl film applied under heat and pressure and sits at the bottom; high-pressure laminate is kraft paper in phenolic resin bonded at 1,000 to 1,400 psi and sits just above it; wood veneer is next, and solid wood is the top. Every quote names the material rather than the price band, because "premium doors" is not a material.
How much of the boxes is treated as visible
Refacing veneers the face frames and any exposed cabinet ends, and which ends count as exposed is the line most often argued about after the fact. A peninsula has two visible sides, an island can have four, and the end of a run beside a fridge may or may not be one depending on where you stand. Every quote lists the surfaces being veneered by name, before the work rather than during it.
What is included beyond the fronts
Hinges, handles, soft-close mechanisms, drawer boxes and interior work are all genuine costs and are sometimes in the number and sometimes not. New fronts usually require new hinges anyway because the overlay changes, so a quote that omits them is not cheaper, it is incomplete. Every quote we write lists inclusions and exclusions as separate lines rather than leaving them to be discovered.
Whether the boxes should be kept at all
Refacing only saves money if the carcasses are worth keeping, and there are two situations where they are not: the boxes are water-damaged — usually the sink base, usually particleboard that has swollen — or the layout itself has to change. In either case refacing is money spent on a kitchen you will replace anyway. Every estimate says which of the two situations applies, including when the honest answer costs us the job.
Each route has its own page with the detail behind these numbers: cabinet refacing, cabinet painting, cabinet refinishing, cabinet door replacement, cabinet repair and custom cabinets. All of them are on the cabinet services hub.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
Your price band decides which license the contractor needs
Tennessee sets contractor licensing by contract value, and Rutherford County is one of only nine counties with the lower tier. Refacing lands inside it.
We explain the requirement. We are not the contractor, and we never claim a license number.
- Under $3,000Generally no state licensing requirement. A small repair or a handful of doors usually sits here.
- $3,000 to under $25,000A Home Improvement Contractor license is required in Rutherford County — one of only nine Tennessee counties where it applies. Refacing at $4,500 to $13,000 is squarely inside this band.
- What that license carriesA $10,000 bond, or other proof of financial responsibility accepted by the state board.
- Over $25,000A full state contractor license applies instead. A whole custom kitchen frequently crosses this line; a refacing job almost never does.
- What to actually do with thisAsk every company quoting you to show you the license for the band your job falls in. It is one question, it costs nothing, and it removes most of the risk in this trade.
Three to five days of work inside several weeks of project
Refacing takes 3 to 5 days on site for a typical kitchen. Removal and preparation account for 1 to 2 of those days.
Ahead of that sits the part nobody quotes as time: measuring, choosing materials and ordering the fronts, which runs from a few days to a couple of weeks depending on what is available. The doors are made to your openings, so nothing can start until they arrive.
End to end, the project typically spans several weeks. Both numbers are true and only one of them usually gets said out loud, which is why an otherwise good job collects a review that says "took forever".
Your kitchen stays usable throughout, because the boxes never leave.
You get the ordering lead time before you commit, not after the doors are on order.
What a comparable Murfreesboro quote looks like
If three quotes all state these five things, the cheapest one is genuinely the cheapest. If they do not, you are not comparing prices.
| On the page | Murfreesboro Cabinet Co. | The typical quote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | One number, with the door and drawer count it was built from | A per-door rate, then a total that does not match it |
| What is replaced | Listed item by item: fronts, box faces, hinges, hardware | "Refinish your cabinets" — which could mean either job |
| The finish | The finish system named, and how hard it cures | "Premium paint" — the entire line |
| Where it is sprayed | Stated: doors off site in a booth, frames masked in place | Not mentioned until the crew arrives with brushes |
| When it is hard | The cure date in writing, not the rehang date | "You're good to go" on the last day |
Take our quote to any other shop and compare it line by line. That is what it is for.
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Working with us, in four steps
Four steps. You can stop after the second one and it has cost you nothing.
We count the fronts in your kitchen
Someone comes out and counts every door and drawer front, checks the box material, and looks at which cabinet ends are actually visible.
You get the price in writing
One fixed price, with the door count, what is replaced, the finish system and the cure date on it. Ask us and every other quote for the Tennessee Home Improvement license — Rutherford County requires one from $3,000 up.
The work, once you have decided
Fronts off, faces prepped and veneered, new fronts hung and aligned — or sprayed, or repaired, depending which number you picked.
You get the kitchen and the paperwork
Site cleaned, hardware fitted, and the quote you agreed still matching the invoice you receive.
On site 3–5 days · ordering runs ahead of it
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Price questions people ask before they book
How much does cabinet refacing cost near me in Murfreesboro, TN?
What is the average cost to reface a 10x10 kitchen?
Is refacing cheaper than replacing cabinets?
How much does Home Depot charge to reface cabinets?
Is it cheaper to paint or refinish cabinets?
How much should I pay to have my kitchen cabinets painted?
Why do refacing quotes vary so much?
Does the price include the license and insurance?
Tell us what your kitchen has. We'll price it in writing.
Say roughly how many doors and drawers there are and what you want them to look like. Someone comes out, counts them properly, and you get one fixed number in writing — priced both ways where refacing and painting are both real options. Nothing is owed if you don't go ahead.
In-home estimate is free · no obligation · most quotes back the same day.
- Free in-home estimate across Murfreesboro
- Priced from a real door and drawer count
- The finish system named on the quote
- Your kitchen stays usable while it happens