New fronts on the boxes you have · material and hinges stated
Cabinet Door Replacement in Murfreesboro, TN
Cabinet door replacement in Murfreesboro, TN puts new doors and drawer fronts on the boxes you already own and leaves the face frames alone, which makes it the cheapest way to change a kitchen’s style rather than just its color.
- Every opening measured in your kitchen, not ordered off a catalog size
- Material chosen for where each door sits, not one material for the kitchen
Tell us roughly how many doors and drawers there are and what the boxes look like. Someone attends, counts them, and you get the number in writing.
Re-dooring replaces the doors only; refacing covers the frames to match
Both jobs keep your cabinet boxes. Re-dooring puts new doors and drawer fronts on them, then leaves the face frames and the exposed cabinet ends exactly as they are.
Refacing does the fronts and then veneers those visible faces so the whole kitchen matches.
Your frames decide which one you need. If they are painted, recent, or already the color you are moving to, replacing the doors alone is the cheaper job and it will look right.
If they have spent twenty years yellowing, new fronts will make them look older rather than better, look into cabinet refacing instead.
The frames are the first thing we look at, and the visit is free.
The three kinds of cabinet door: laminate, wood and MDF
All three are legitimate doors, made completely differently. Hinges are the fourth thing the quote has to name.
A vinyl skin over a solid core — rigid thermofoil, also sold as RTF
One piece of MDF (medium-density fiberboard) routed to a profile, with a vinyl film pressed over it under heat and pressure so the film follows every contour — which is how you get a shaker or raised-panel look with no joints anywhere in the door. It takes a perfectly even factory color and does not move in humid air. It is also prone to peeling under sustained heat, so the quote has to say where those doors are going.
High-pressure laminate
Layers of kraft paper soaked in phenolic resin and bonded at 1,000 to 1,400 psi, then applied to a substrate. It is as stable as thermofoil and holds up materially better near heat, which is the single reason to pay the difference — and why the door beside the range and the panel above the dishwasher get specified separately from the rest of the kitchen.
Solid wood
A wood frame joined around a floating center panel, which is why the corners show joints. It is the only front that can be refinished later instead of replaced, and the one that moves most with Tennessee humidity. Every wood front we fit is finished on all six faces, edges included — a door sealed on the front alone absorbs unevenly and cups toward the drier side.
The hinges, which are not an afterthought
New fronts change the overlay, and the hinge sets how far the door sits over the frame. Concealed hinges adjust in three directions, which is how eight doors are brought into a straight line once they are hung; the surface-mounted hinges on many 1990s kitchens have no adjustment at all. Every quote states whether hinges, handles and soft-close are included or excluded.
If the box faces need to match the new doors, the job is cabinet refacing. If you like the doors you have and only want a different color, that is cabinet painting or cabinet refinishing. Frames that need work before new doors go on are cabinet repair, and every route priced side by side is on cabinet refacing cost in Murfreesboro.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
Door styles you can order
The door profile dates a kitchen faster than its color does. These are the styles you can specify.
Four things decide how long new doors last in a Murfreesboro kitchen
The range and the dishwasher pick the material
Thermofoil is prone to peeling under sustained heat and high-pressure laminate holds up better in exactly those two positions, so those doors get specified separately from the rest. A kitchen priced in one material has not been looked at.
Wood fronts move more here than the catalog assumes
Fronts arrive milled for far drier air than Middle Tennessee has. Wood moves most with that, laminate and thermofoil least. If your doors already catch every August, the material choice is part of the answer.
A twenty-year-old opening is not a catalog size
Cabinet openings from the 1990s and 2000s are not reliably the sizes a catalog lists, and they are not reliably consistent with each other either. Fronts get measured opening by opening in your kitchen, which is why a firm price only exists after a measure.
Changing the overlay changes how much frame shows
If there is a band of face frame visible around every door, your kitchen is partial overlay, which is what most of that era were fitted with. Moving to full overlay covers nearly all of it, which is the cheapest way to stop tired frames being the thing you notice.
The visit tells you which of these applies to your kitchen.
New fronts in Murfreesboro are priced per door, not per kitchen
Fronts alone sit under the $5,000 to $11,000 a refaced kitchen costs here, and the gap is the veneer work on the box faces rather than the doors.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| The job above this one | ||
| Refacing, standard kitchen | all fronts replaced AND box faces veneered to match | $5,000–$11,000 |
| Keeping the fronts you have | ||
| Painting them instead | existing doors sprayed, by kitchen size | $1,500–$6,000 |
| Refinishing them instead | stripped back and recoated, grain kept | $1,500–$3,500 |
| Not keeping anything | ||
| Full replacement | boxes removed, new cabinets built and fitted | $15,000–$30,000+ |
Fronts-only work is quoted from the door and drawer count and the material, so it is not a per-foot figure and nobody can give you one honestly over the phone. What moves it: the number of openings, the material, the door profile, the overlay you move to, and whether hinges and handles are included.
Free. No obligation. Most quotes back the same day.
Working with us, in four steps
Four steps. You can stop after the second one and it has cost you nothing.
We measure every opening and look at the frames
Someone comes out, measures each opening rather than assuming they match, and tells you whether new doors alone will look right against your frames.
You get the price in writing
One fixed price, with the door and drawer count, the material chosen for each position, and whether hinges and handles are in it. Ask us and every other quote for the Tennessee Home Improvement license — Rutherford County requires one from $3,000 up.
Old fronts off, new fronts hung and aligned
Old doors and hinges come off, new hinges go on, and every door is hung and then adjusted into line.
You get the style change without the box work
Handles fitted, doors leveled, packaging taken away, and the boxes exactly where they were.
Fronts arrive finished · one to two days on site once they land
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Door replacement questions people ask before they book
What are cabinet doors made of?
How do I measure cabinet doors for replacement?
Do new cabinet doors need new hinges?
How much does it cost to replace kitchen cabinet doors?
Can I replace just a few cabinet doors?
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