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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from About-Face Kitchens Inc. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Cabinets are roughly 30% of a kitchen budget.
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$23,000 – $35,000
Typical kitchen remodel around $29,000
The most useful thing anyone has written about About-Face Kitchens is a measurement. In a 2013 review, a homeowner described the finished install down to the tolerances: every piece leveled and scribed to fit, the refrigerator landing with about an eighth of an inch of clearance for the manufacturer's trim kit, and large cabinet sections carried in through a rear slider without a single ding. That is the shape of this business. It is a cabinet shop, not a general remodeler — an S corporation at 27 Walnut Street in Peabody, started in 1985 with four employees under president Ray M Pasciuto, who reviewers simply call Ray. Design, building, delivery and installation are all done by their own people. The work runs to custom kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, walk-in closets, built-ins, mantles, home bar and home theater millwork, plus cabinet refacing and countertop and stone fabrication. They serve the North Shore out to Nahant. Reviewers writing in 2012 and 2013 kept landing on the same two things: Ray's design work — mocking layouts up on his PC, showing wood and hardware samples in the showroom — and installers who solved out-of-square walls and floors without fuss. One 2012 customer said he spotted issues other companies had not mentioned at all. The BBB grades the business A+, though it is not accredited there. The catch is the calendar. Five reviews exist and the newest is from August 2013; two of the five carry no written comment at all. Nothing has been published about this shop in more than a decade. So the craft evidence is genuine but dated. If you want built-to-fit cabinetry rather than a contractor to run a whole kitchen gut, ask Ray for recent addresses you can look at, and confirm current lead times — the planning and build stages took a while even in the accounts that praised them.
We met with Ray a number of time to go over exact cabinet details as well as finishes. We elected a high-gloss white that is simply beautiful. What we did ahead of time is decide exactly how many pull out draws we wanted and there exact heights so things like cans, bottles, etc. would fit in cabinets in the location we wanted. The install went perfect and they had to move in some large pieces through the rear sliding door. Nothing got dinged (nothing!) The cabinets fit like a glove. They leveled every piece exactly. They scribed each piece to fit exact. The fridge fits with about 1/8" clearance which is the tolerance we needed for the manufacture's trim kit. The stove fit just as well. We opted for the soft close drawers glides which are just great. I just give them a push and the close feather soft.. Look around but definitely get a quote from Ray. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised with his prices. His design skills are a great asset and as he knows exactly what he is building and there are no surprises. It is not often you can get a soups to nuts solution where there is never any finger pointing.but here is the rare case..
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We couldn't have been happier with the work that was performed by About Face Kitchens. The owner was very knowledgable and came up with some suggestions and found some other issues that other companies never even saw or mentioned to us. The workers did excellent work and were very professional and finished the job pretty quickly. I would highly suggest this company whether you are doing a refacing job or having new cabinets built. We just happened to have cabinets that were perfect for refacing but we would have used them even if we were going completely new. We had one new cabinet built and it came out beautiful. In our opinion our money was more than well spent. We are having other work done as part of this project but this review is for About Face Kitchens only.
We met and discussed different approaches to the cabinet with Ray mocking things up on his PC, and also showing us samples of wood, designs, and hardware in his showroom. The end result was that we were comfortable that we had arrived at what we were after in the finished piece. The planning and construction stages took a while, but we weren't in a hurry. Once the piece was built in the shop, two of Ray's carpenters brought the disassembled cabinet to the house and installed it in a few hours. They had to face some challenges from less than square walls and floor, but the end result was very pleasing to the eye.I would definitely recommend About Face Kitchens as a cabinetry shop. Ray was a pleasure to work with, and his technical crew did a fine job with the installation.
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