Boxes built to your drawing · refacing priced alongside · one written number
Custom Cabinets in Murfreesboro, TN
Custom cabinets in Murfreesboro, TN are the right answer when the space is the problem — an awkward wall, a layout that has never worked, an opening that stock sizes leave a four-inch filler in.
- We build the boxes ourselves to your measured drawing
- The sink cabinet gets built in plywood
Tell us what the space is and what has to go in it. Someone attends, measures, and you get the number in writing.
Custom cabinets are the right job when the layout is the problem
Three things make a kitchen a custom job: a wall or an alcove that nothing standard fits, a layout that has never worked and has to move, or boxes that have actually failed.
The honest test is whether you would keep the cabinets where they are if it cost nothing. If you would, you want new fronts rather than new boxes, and that is cabinet refacing.
No fee, no obligation.
We build the boxes ourselves to the drawing we measured
Stock cabinets come off a shelf in fixed sizes. Semi-custom is a factory line with the options picked from a catalog. Custom means the cabinets are made to the sizes your kitchen actually is.
It also means the people who measured the kitchen are the people who build it and fit it, so there is nobody to pass the blame to if the cabinets do not line up.
The four things a custom cabinet quote has to put in writing
What each cabinet is made of
Cabinet boxes are built from hardwood plywood, MDF or particleboard, and the right choice usually differs within one kitchen. Plywood holds a screw and survives a wetting. MDF is stable and takes a painted finish beautifully, but it is heavy and swells if it gets wet. Particleboard is the cheapest, and it is the one that never recovers from a slow leak.
The standard the boxes are built to
ANSI/KCMA A161.1 is the American performance and construction standard for kitchen and vanity cabinets: shelves and bottoms are loaded to 15 pounds per square foot and held for seven days, and a wall cabinet is loaded gradually to 600 pounds, both without deflection, joint separation or any visible failure of the mounting. Every quote names the standard the work is built to, because "solid construction" is not a specification.
The doors, and the fact that they can be changed later
The door style, how much of the box the doors cover, and what the fronts are made of are the visible half of the price and the half that dates fastest. We specify them the same way as on a refacing job — style, overlay, material, hinges — so the kitchen you are buying is described rather than implied, and so that in fifteen years the fronts can be replaced without touching the boxes.
What is not included, and what becomes a change order
We quote the cabinets, the fronts and the fitting. Countertops, appliances, plumbing, electrical work and flooring are separate trades, and the quote says so rather than leaving you to find out on fit day. Anything that changes after you have signed off the drawing is priced before it is built, not added at the end.
If the boxes you have are sound, the cheaper answer is cabinet refacing, or cabinet door replacement if the box faces are fine as they are. Color alone is cabinet painting or cabinet refinishing, and single failures in an otherwise good kitchen are cabinet repair. Every route priced against every other is on cabinet refacing cost in Murfreesboro, and the rest is on the cabinet services hub.
The spec goes on the quote before you decide anything.
Frameless holds more, framed fits a wall that is not straight
The face frame is the single biggest difference between two cabinets that look identical from the front. It decides how much you can get in, and how the kitchen can be refaced later.
Any of these door styles can be built framed or frameless
A labeled drawing shows you what the words on a quote mean, without pretending to be a photograph of a kitchen we built for somebody else.
Any of them can also be built at any of the three overlays shown on cabinet refacing. The style is a choice, not a capability.
We match new cabinets to the framed ones in your kitchen
Framed is what is already on the wall
Framed construction is the traditional American method. If you are adding to a kitchen rather than replacing all of it, that is most likely what the new work has to match.
A frameless cabinet beside a framed one reads as two kitchens. Where the job is an addition, matching the construction you already have is a line on the drawing rather than a matter of taste.
The sink base is the cabinet that decides how long the kitchen lasts
A slow leak under a sink sits against the deck and the back panel for months before anybody sees it, and particleboard does not recover from it.
That one cabinet is worth building in plywood whatever the rest of the kitchen is. It is a small cost at the time and it is the difference between a repair and a rebuild later.
The visit tells you which of these applies to your kitchen.
A custom kitchen in Murfreesboro runs $15,000 to $30,000
Custom work is priced from the drawing rather than from a table, so this is what it is being weighed against. The ranges are the 2026 Murfreesboro market; your number comes from the measured design.
| Work | What the number assumes | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| New boxes | ||
| Full cabinet replacement | old cabinets removed, new cabinets built and fitted | $15,000–$30,000+ |
| Keeping the boxes you have | ||
| Refacing | all fronts replaced, box faces veneered to match | $4,500–$13,000 |
| Refacing, standard kitchen | the figure most Murfreesboro kitchens land at | $5,000–$11,000 |
| Painting the existing doors | sprayed, by kitchen size | $1,500–$6,000 |
| Refinishing the existing doors | stripped back and recoated, grain kept | $1,500–$3,500 |
What moves a custom number: how many cabinets, what each box is made of, framed or frameless, the door style and front material, whether anything has to be cut to fit a wall that is not straight, and how much of the existing kitchen has to come out first. An island or one added bank of cabinets is a different scale of job from a whole kitchen, and both are quoted from the measured drawing rather than from a rate per foot.
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 the space and ask what goes in it
Someone comes out, measures, checks how square the walls are, and asks what the cabinets actually have to hold — which is what decides how the shelves and the wall mounts are built.
You get the price in writing
One fixed price, with every cabinet listed, what each box is made of, and what is not included. Ask us and every other quote which license it is issued under: Rutherford County requires a Tennessee Home Improvement license from $3,000 to under $25,000, and a full state contractor license applies above that.
Built to the drawing, then fitted to your walls
The boxes and fronts are made to the measured drawing while you carry on using the kitchen you have. The old cabinets come out on fit day, and the new ones are leveled and cut to fit your walls.
You get a kitchen that fits, and a sheet saying what it is made of
Doors aligned, hardware fitted, site cleaned — and the materials and the standard written down, so the next person to touch this kitchen knows what it is.
Your kitchen stays in use until fit day · nothing is torn out early
Step one costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Custom cabinet questions people ask before they book
How long does a custom kitchen take, and can I use my kitchen while it is built?
Should I get custom cabinets or reface the ones I have?
What is the difference between a cabinet maker and a carpenter?
Framed or frameless — which is better?
What is ANSI/KCMA A161.1?
Do custom cabinets need a licensed contractor in Rutherford County?
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 the measured drawing, not a rate per foot
- The finish system named on the quote
- Your kitchen stays usable until fit day