Kitchen Cabinet Refacing in Manhattan
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New Look Kitchen Refacing refaces kitchens in every neighborhood of Manhattan, working from our Farmingdale shop on Long Island. Cabinet refacing replaces the doors, drawer fronts and hardware and veneers the exposed frames over your existing boxes, so the plumbing and layout stay untouched, which is why it suits co-op and condo apartments. Our own installers do the work under NYC Home Improvement Contractor #1229993-DCA, and most kitchens are finished in 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
You Can't Move the Pipes, So Reface What You See
In an apartment, the sink, the stove and the walls are rarely yours to relocate. Plumbing and gas run through the building, and moving them is the kind of alteration a board has to review. Refacing leaves all of that where it is: new doors, drawer fronts and hardware go onto the boxes you already have, and every exposed frame is covered in a matching veneer.
That makes it the right job when the layout works and the kitchen only looks worn. If you want a wall opened or an appliance moved, it is a remodel, and we will say so at the estimate rather than put new doors on a plan that needs more.
Is Refacing Worth It in a Small Manhattan Kitchen?
In a big suburban kitchen the eye travels. In a galley or an L-shaped apartment kitchen it has nowhere to go, because every door and drawer front is within arm's reach and the whole room is read in a glance. The finish carries more of the room's character than it would anywhere else.
That cuts both ways. A worn door is more obvious in a compact kitchen, and a clean new one changes the whole space. The Manhattan kitchens further down this page are mostly that size: a few walls of cabinets, one window, and a surface that does a lot of work.
Can Refacing Handle Peninsulas, Open Ends and Awkward Corners?
Older apartments are full of cabinet runs that were built to fit a particular wall: a peninsula that finishes in open shelves, a corner that is not square, a pantry that goes to the ceiling. None of that has to change. Doors and fronts are made to your cabinets' measurements, and the exposed sides and ends are veneered to match, so a peninsula looks finished from the dining room as well as from the stove.
An open shelf at the end of a peninsula is typical of what we mean. The shelves stay, the box stays, and what you see from across the room is new.
Before You Book Anyone in a Co-op or Condo
Manhattan buildings set their own rules for alteration work. Before you hire anyone, check your alteration agreement or proprietary lease and ask your managing agent three things: whether cabinet work needs board approval, which days and hours contractors may work, and how materials and debris get in and out. Those answers shape the calendar more than the job does.
Then check the contractor. New York City requires a home improvement contractor license from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, and a Nassau or Suffolk license does not cover Manhattan. New Look is licensed and insured, and holds NYC Home Improvement Contractor #1229993-DCA, which is valid across all five boroughs. Ask any contractor for theirs, and confirm it with the city before you sign.
Bring whatever your building gives you to the estimate, and we will tell you plainly whether the job fits.
Three Steps, Whatever the Building
The same three stages as on Long Island: measure, make, install. What a building adds is a few questions to settle before the first day, and the estimate is the right time to ask them.
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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.
Manhattan Neighborhoods We Serve
- Upper West Side
- Upper East Side
- Harlem
- East Harlem
- Washington Heights
- Inwood
- Morningside Heights
- Midtown
- Hell's Kitchen
- Murray Hill
- Kips Bay
- Chelsea
- Gramercy
- Greenwich Village
- East Village
- SoHo
- Tribeca
- Lower East Side
- Financial District
- Battery Park City
Recent Work from Our Crews
Real kitchens refaced by our own installers and completed in Manhattan, in sage green, navy, pale grey and white. Photographs of finished work, not staged for a catalog. More of our work is in the gallery.
Refacing Against a Full Remodel
In a building, the cost of a remodel is not only the cabinets: it is the demolition, the weeks without a kitchen and whatever your board has to review. Refacing leaves the layout, the plumbing and the walls alone, which can shrink what needs approving. Ask your managing agent first, because that decision is theirs, not ours. Refacing is also a different job from repainting: here is how it differs from 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 Manhattan Projects
The same three offers, on the same terms, as every New Look project. Each requires an estimate scheduled with an installation inside six months, and the 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.”
Asked by Manhattan Homeowners
Refacing replaces the visible parts of your cabinets, the doors, drawer fronts and hardware, and covers the exposed frames in a matching veneer. The cabinet boxes stay where they are, so the plumbing, the gas line and the layout are untouched. In an apartment, that is usually the difference between a cosmetic job and an alteration, which matters because many co-op and condo boards review alterations before work starts. Most kitchens take three to five days. If you would move the sink, the stove or a wall, that is a remodel and refacing is not the right answer, and we will say 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.