Kitchen Cabinet Refacing in Brooklyn
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New Look Kitchen Refacing refaces kitchens throughout Brooklyn, in brownstones, rowhouses, two-family homes and apartment buildings, working from our Farmingdale shop on Long Island. Cabinet refacing gives your existing cabinets new doors, drawer fronts and hardware and covers the exposed frames in a matching veneer, so the layout and plumbing stay as they are. Our own installers do the work under NYC Home Improvement Contractor #1229993-DCA, and most kitchens take three to five days.
- Made in North America
- Never outsourced
- Installed in 3–5 days
- Reuses your cabinet boxes
- Serving homeowners since 2006
- Free in-home estimates
New Doors on the Cabinets You Already Have
Refacing works on the parts of a kitchen that wear: the faces. The boxes behind them, the plumbing and the gas line stay put. We remove the old doors and drawer fronts, veneer the frames and any exposed sides to match, and fit new doors, fronts, hinges and pulls made for your cabinets.
Because nothing is demolished, there is no stretch of weeks with the kitchen out of use, and no new trades to schedule. If what you really want is a different layout, that is a remodel, and we will say so when we measure.
Long, Narrow and Tall: Refacing a Rowhouse Kitchen
A rowhouse is narrow by design, and its kitchen usually is too: one long wall of cabinets, or two facing each other, often under a ceiling higher than anything in a newer house. That tends to produce tall runs, cabinets stacked to the ceiling, a pantry wall built around the refrigerator, an upper row you need a step stool to reach.
Tall runs reface the same way as short ones. Every door is made to the opening it covers, so a column of four doors stacked floor to ceiling lines up as one, and the panels either side of a refrigerator get the same veneer as the rest. In a long, narrow room every one of those doors is in view at once, which is why changing them changes the whole kitchen.
Refacing the Kitchen in Your Rental Unit
Plenty of Brooklyn owners live on one floor and rent the other, and the tenant's kitchen is often the one that wears out first. Between tenancies is the obvious time to deal with it, and the time is short.
Refacing fits that window. The cabinets are measured and the doors made before anyone is in the apartment, and the installation itself typically takes three to five days, with the plumbing and appliances left connected. You can reface the rental kitchen and your own in the same finish or in different ones; each is measured and priced separately at the estimate.
Co-op and Condo Kitchens: Get the Building's Rules First
If your kitchen is in a co-op or condo building, the building decides when and how contractors work there. Before you book anyone, read your alteration agreement and ask the managing agent whether cabinet work needs approval, which hours are allowed and how materials come in. Our Manhattan page covers those questions at more length.
Ask every contractor for a New York City home improvement license, too. New Look holds NYC Home Improvement Contractor #1229993-DCA, and the city lets you look up any number before you sign.
Three Stages, Brownstone or Apartment
We measure at the estimate, make the doors and fronts to those measurements, then install. Only the last stage happens in your home, which is why the disruption is days rather than weeks.
Request a free estimate
We bring the showroom to you — doors, finishes and hardware, seen in your own kitchen light.
Create your new look
Choose the door style, color, countertop and hardware with a designer, not a catalog.
Schedule your install
Our own installers reface the kitchen in 3–5 days and clean up every evening.
Brooklyn Neighborhoods We Serve
- Brooklyn Heights
- Cobble Hill
- Carroll Gardens
- Park Slope
- Prospect Heights
- Fort Greene
- Clinton Hill
- Williamsburg
- Greenpoint
- Bushwick
- Windsor Terrace
- Kensington
- Ditmas Park
- Flatbush
- Midwood
- Bay Ridge
- Dyker Heights
- Bensonhurst
- Gravesend
- Sheepshead Bay
- Marine Park
- Mill Basin
Kitchens Our Crews Have Refaced
Finished kitchens refaced by our own installers, photographed after the work was done rather than set up for a brochure. There are more in the gallery.
Refacing Against Ripping It Out
A full remodel in an older Brooklyn house can grow once the walls are open. Refacing does not open them: the boxes, pipes and wiring stay where they are, and you pay for new surfaces rather than new structure. For a cheaper finish still, see how refacing compares with refinishing.
| Measure | Refacing | Full remodel |
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | 3–5 days | 4–8 weeks |
| Typical spend | $10k–$18k | $25k–$45k |
| Demolition | None | Full tear-out |
| Your layout | Kept | Rebuilt |
Current Offers on Brooklyn Projects
Every New Look project gets the same three offers on the same terms, Brooklyn included. The two countertop offers need an installation inside six months, and the new-countertop offer is capped at $3,000.
Free Quartz Countertop
Worth up to $3,000
Choose a new quartz countertop on us, in any of the colors we carry, installed as part of the refacing.
*An estimate must be scheduled with an installation within 6 months. Countertop max cost up to $3,000.
Keep Your Countertop
Take $3,000 off instead
Happy with the counters you already have? Keep them in place and take the same value straight off the price of your kitchen.
*An estimate must be scheduled with an installation within 6 months.
Beat Your Best Quote
We go $1,500 lower
Bring us the most competitive quote you have from another kitchen cabinet refacing company and we will beat it by $1,500.
*Quote must be from another kitchen cabinet refacing company.
Our Customers Love Their New Kitchens
Real reviews from our Google Business Profile.
- Rated 5 out of 5
“Excellent work, very skilled workers, great materials, it took only three days to do the entire kitchen refacing, I highly recommend them.”
- Rated 5 out of 5
“I've had 2 kitchens refaced from New Look in 2 different houses years apart. If I wasn't truly satisfied, I would have never used them again…”
- Rated 5 out of 5
“Everything was done in a professional manner from start to finish. Installation was timely and clean. Kenny made sure everything was done to perfection!”
- Rated 5 out of 5
“Extremely happy with the work done. Haroon and his partner sid an excellent job.”
- Rated 5 out of 5
“…I love my new cabinets & drawer fronts. I changed colors of one set of cabinets from white to black and the work was incredible.”
Brooklyn Refacing Questions
We keep your cabinet boxes and replace the surfaces you see. The old doors and drawer fronts come off, the frames and exposed sides are covered in a matching veneer, and new doors, fronts, hinges and pulls are fitted to your openings. Plumbing, gas, appliances and the layout stay where they are, which is what keeps the job to three to five days. It is the right job when the kitchen works and looks tired. If you want to change the layout, that is a remodel, and we will tell you so at the estimate.
Let’s Talk About Your Kitchen
You deserve a kitchen you love to cook, dine and entertain in. Tell us a little about the space and we’ll bring the showroom to you — no deposit, no obligation.
New to refacing? See how it compares to a full remodel.
Current Offers
Free Quartz Countertop — Worth up to $3,000
*An estimate must be scheduled with an installation within 6 months. Countertop max cost up to $3,000.
Keep Your Countertop — Take $3,000 off instead
*An estimate must be scheduled with an installation within 6 months.
Beat Your Best Quote — We go $1,500 lower
*Quote must be from another kitchen cabinet refacing company.