Affordable Cabinet Refacing

Affordable Cabinet Refacing works out of Andover under owner Shawn Williams, with eight people on the books and a second trading name, Affordable Cabinets and Closets. What they sell is narrow and they say so plainly: new doors and drawer fronts fitted over your existing cabinet boxes, plus closet systems, garage cabinets and cabinet painting. The cabinets and closets are built in their own Massachusetts shop rather than bought in. Customers hire them as the alternative to ripping a kitchen out. One recent customer had stared at outdated cabinets for ten years before finding a company to do the job at a reasonable price, and had several broken doors and drawers fixed in the process. Another had doors that were peeling and could not be repainted; the boxes were sound, so refacing gave them a kitchen that looks new for a fraction of a full replacement. A third had forty-year-old doors in poor shape and describes an installer working long days to transform the room. One customer has now had them back for more than ten kitchens and closets over ten years. The same names come up again and again — Matthew and Justin on the tools, Debra in the office handling scheduling and follow-up — which is what a small settled crew looks like rather than a churn of subcontractors. Across seven sources the record runs to 131 reviews since 2019: 5.0 from 101 ratings on Google and 4.9 from 176 on HomeAdvisor, where 96 percent sit at five stars. Two things to raise before signing. First, the licence. The state registry confirms Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 195565 as active — but the number the company publishes for itself on its Houzz profile is a different one, 156360, which BuildZoom records as inactive and at one point cancelled. Ask which number is current and check it yourself on the state register. BuildZoom also carries a Rhode Island contractor registration marked active beside a note that it expired in July 2011, so treat that one as unproven in either direction. Second, durability. One customer reported that doors installed about four years earlier began delaminating and air-pocketing roughly a year in; the company remeasured, re-ordered and replaced them at no charge, over multiple visits, which is the response you would want but is worth asking about up front. Ask what warranty covers door finish and delamination, and for how long. They are the right call if your cabinet boxes are sound and you want a new-looking kitchen in days rather than weeks. They are the wrong call if you need walls moved or a full gut — that is not what they do.