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About Face Kitchens is a Peabody cabinet shop where the design gets settled across a table before anything is built. A 2012 customer described meeting Ray, watching him mock up different approaches to the piece on his PC, and going through wood samples, designs and hardware in his showroom — then coming away confident they had landed on what they were after. Houzz lists custom kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, home bar and home theater cabinetry and custom furniture, with a 39-town North Shore service area worked from the shop at 27 Walnut Street. The Angi and HomeAdvisor profiles add cabinet refacing, built-ins, libraries, computer-aided design and granite or solid-surface countertops. A regional business listing describes the company as having started in cabinet refacing and moved into custom cabinetry and millwork for any room in a home or office. BBB lists the business as operating since 1985 and grades it A+. The written accounts run 2003 to 2013, and Angi and HomeAdvisor each show 5.0 from five ratings, every one of them a five. In a 2013 review, a homeowner who had worked out in advance exactly how many pull-out drawers they wanted and at what heights — so cans and bottles would fit — ended up with a high-gloss white they called simply beautiful. A 2012 customer credited the company with spotting issues other companies had not seen or mentioned. This is the shop for a built-to-fit kitchen, a vanity, a bar cabinet or a library wall. Bring measurements and a list to the first meeting — that planning is what the 2012 and 2013 reviewers described — and ask what the design work covers, how installation is scheduled, and who handles any other trades your project needs.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from About Face Kitchens. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Cabinets are roughly 30% of a kitchen budget.
Estimated range
$23,000 – $35,000
Typical kitchen remodel around $29,000
“About Face Kitchens began as a cabinet refacing company and has grown and transformed into a high end custom cabinetry shop offering design, fabrication and installation of cabinetry and mill work for any room in the home or office.”
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.
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