Cabinet Refacing in Sherwood Park, Strathcona County
Cabinet refacing in Sherwood Park is the replacement of dated 1970s-80s doors and drawer fronts on the structurally superior plywood cabinet boxes built into Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, and Brentwood kitchens. iPaint Painting strips the original honey-oak, pickled-pine, or cherry-stained raised-panel doors and installs new shaker, flat slab, fluted, or rift-cut white oak fronts. A typical Sherwood Park reface runs 7 to 10 days at $13,000 to $26,000, against $55,000 to $130,000 to fully replace the same Strathcona County kitchen. Last updated June 2026.
iPaint Painting refaces kitchens across Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, Westboro, Brentwood, and Lakeland Ridge across the T8A, T8B, T8C, T8G, and T8H postal codes. Owner-led by Mourad, MPI-certified. Call 780-938-9555 for a free in-home measure with physical door samples in shaker, slab, fluted, and rift-cut white oak. Cabinet refacing vs cabinet refinishing: refacing replaces the doors entirely; refinishing repaints the same doors. Choose the best path for your kitchen on the comparison below.
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Cabinet Refacing Replaces the Doors. Refinishing Repaints Them.
Cabinet refacing in Sherwood Park installs brand-new doors, drawer fronts, and end panels on your existing 1970s-80s plywood boxes. Refinishing keeps your original honey-oak raised-panel doors and sprays them a new colour. If your goal is moving from 1970s oak to 2026 shaker, the answer is refacing.
Cabinet Refacing in Sherwood Park
New door silhouette entirely. 1970s plywood boxes untouched.
- +Doors, drawer fronts, and end panels physically replaced with new components in a different style
- +Move from 1970s raised cathedral arch or 1980s flat-panel slab to current shaker, fluted, or recessed shaker
- +Material upgrade from honey oak, cherry stain, or pickled pine to solid maple, painted MDF, rift-cut white oak, or quarter-sawn walnut
- +Hardware from 1980s brass colonial knobs to brushed nickel, matte black, or integrated channel pulls
- +Project window: 7-10 days, kitchen unusable 2-3 days
- +Sherwood Park range: $13,000-$26,000
Cabinet Refinishing (Same Doors, New Colour)
Same silhouette. Stripped and spray-painted.
- oExisting doors removed, stripped to bare oak, and spray-painted at our shop
- oThe 1978 cathedral arch or 1985 raised oak panel still defines the kitchen
- oMaterial stays as painted oak, only the colour changes
- oHardware can change but the door shape cannot
- oProject window: 5-7 days
- oSherwood Park range: $6,500-$11,500 (about half)
Quick reality check for Sherwood Park homeowners: if your goal is moving from honey-oak cathedral arches to a clean shaker or rift-cut oak slab, refacing is the only path. Repainting the existing doors keeps the 1978 silhouette in a 2026 colour, which most clients regret within two years. If you actually love the door profile and only want a new colour, cabinet refinishing in Sherwood Park is the right call.
The Components in a Typical Sherwood Park Reface
A standard Sherwood Park kitchen scope: 24 to 38 doors, 10 to 16 drawer fronts, 6 to 10 end panels, an 8 to 10 foot island in larger homes, plus optional pantry and bar areas. Sherwood Park kitchens run larger than Edmonton-neighbourhood comps because original lot sizes in Strathcona County were generous.
24-38 New Doors
Built to your chosen profile (shaker, slab, fluted, or rift-cut oak), sized to your existing Mills Haven, Foxhaven, or Glen Allan openings within 1/32 inch. Sherwood Park kitchens carry larger door counts than Edmonton neighbourhood kitchens.
10-16 Drawer Fronts
Matching drawer fronts cut to your existing drawer openings. The original 1970s wood-slide drawers can be retrofitted with modern BLUM Tandem soft-close glides at your option.
Veneer Box Faces
Every visible face frame, gable, and box edge on your original Strathcona County millshop boxes gets a new wood veneer skin colour-matched to your new door material. No honey-oak edges peeking out.
6-10 End Panels
Decorative end panels on exposed cabinet sides, dishwasher panel, fridge cabinet panel, and pantry sides, all replaced to match. Sherwood Park kitchens typically have 3 to 4 more end panels than Edmonton equivalents because of the generous lot lines.
8-10 Foot Island
Sherwood Park islands tend to be longer than Edmonton-neighbourhood comps at 8 to 10 feet with seating on one side. iPaint refaces front, back, both ends, and the kick. Fluted rift-cut oak is the popular 2026 island choice.
BLUM Soft-Close Retrofit
1970s and 80s Mills Haven and Foxhaven hinges are typically old-style European cup or barrel-and-pin. iPaint upgrades every door to fresh BLUM Compact 38N soft-close hinges at the same time as the door swap. No more slam.
Hardware Modernization
1980s polished brass colonial knobs and pulls come off. Brushed nickel, matte black, unlacquered brass, brass-and-black combos, or integrated channel pulls go on every door and drawer.
Pantry & Bar Doors
Sherwood Park homes from Mills Haven onward typically include a walk-in pantry and a wet-bar cabinet. Both get refaced to match the main kitchen for visual continuity throughout the open-plan main floor.
Cabinet box condition is almost never a question on Sherwood Park homes built 1972 to 1995. The 5/8-inch plywood boxes from the original Strathcona County millshops are demonstrably stronger than today's particleboard flatpack kitchens. If anything we find disqualifies your boxes from refacing, iPaint Painting will recommend cabinet refinishing instead and explain why on the spot.
The 7-10 Day Sherwood Park Reface Sequence
No demo trucks parked along Wye Road or Broadmoor Boulevard. No granite removal. No re-plumbing. Old doors off, boxes re-skinned, new doors on. Kitchen downtime is just 2 to 3 days in the middle of the project.
Sample Visit
Mourad brings physical door samples (shaker, slab, fluted, rift-cut oak) to your Sherwood Park home so you can hold them against your existing granite, tile, or honey-oak cabinets and compare in your actual kitchen light.
Field Measure
Every door opening measured to 1/32 inch with a digital caliper. Existing hinge cup size, arm length, and drawer opening dimensions documented for the new spec. Mills Haven, Foxhaven, and Glen Allan boxes vary slightly between builders.
Door Fabrication
Doors and drawer fronts built by a Canadian door specialist. Lead time on a typical 30-door Sherwood Park spec is 3 to 4 weeks. Hardware, hinges, and veneer ordered in parallel.
Days 1-2: Removal
Original 1970s-80s honey-oak doors and drawer fronts come down. Old European-cup hinges removed. Box faces scuff-sanded for new veneer adhesion. Granite stays bolted down throughout.
Days 3-5: Veneer + Hang
Box faces veneered with contact adhesive and rolled flat. New BLUM Compact 38N hinges bored into boxes. New doors hung. End panels installed. Drawer fronts attached. Kitchen is unusable for these 2-3 days.
Days 6-10: Finish + Walk
Matte black, brushed nickel, brass, or integrated channel pulls installed. Every door aligned within 1 mm. Final walkthrough against the punch list. 5-year written workmanship warranty activates and is emailed the same day.
Why Sherwood Park Picks iPaint for Refacing
Sherwood Park sits outside Edmonton city limits in Strathcona County, which creates a tighter contractor market and higher full-replacement quotes. iPaint Painting prices Sherwood Park the same as Edmonton, with no T8 travel surcharge, and brings 15+ years of experience on the specific 1970s-80s box specs found in Mills Haven, Foxhaven, and Glen Allan.
1970s-80s Box Specialists
Most Edmonton refacing contractors work primarily on 2000s and 2010s big-box flatpack kitchens. iPaint has refaced original Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, and Brentwood kitchens since 2011. We know how the original Strathcona County millshops built their cathedral-arch and pickled-pine slab doors, where the European hinge cups land, and how to retrofit fresh BLUM Compact 38N hardware into 50-year-old plywood without splitting the frame.
Mourad Personally Measures
The owner runs every Sherwood Park reface from the sample visit through the final walk. With 15+ years on cabinet work, Painter and Decorator Certification, and MPI training, Mourad is the single accountable person when something needs adjustment. No project manager between you and the craftsman who measured your Mills Haven or Broadmoor Estates doors.
Your Granite or Tile Stays Bolted Down
Most original Sherwood Park kitchens still carry granite, tile, or solid-surface counters installed in the 1990s or 2000s renos. Full replacement means lifting that slab, refabricating, and refitting at $6,000 to $11,000 alone. With refacing, your counter never moves. iPaint masks the perimeter, works cleanly around it, and leaves it exactly as we found it.
One-Quarter the Cost of Strathcona Replacement
Full demolition and rebuild of a typical Sherwood Park kitchen runs $55,000 to $130,000 once you factor in new cabinets, quartz refabrication, plumbing, electrical, lighting upgrades, and drywall patch. The Strathcona County contractor market east of Edmonton is tighter, and quartz fabricators charge a delivery premium across Highway 21. Refacing delivers a brand-new face for $13,000 to $26,000. The math is decisive when your original 5/8-inch plywood boxes are still in better shape than a brand-new big-box kitchen.
5-Year Written Warranty
Every new door, every veneer seam, every hinge, every hardware fitting. If anything iPaint installed fails inside 5 years, we come back. The warranty is written, signed, and emailed to you the day we activate it at the final walk. Sherwood Park addresses are 25 minutes from our 9821 33 Ave NW shop via Highway 16, so warranty visits happen quickly.
No T8 Travel Surcharge
Many Edmonton-based renovators charge a 5-12% surcharge to work across the city limits into Strathcona County. iPaint Painting prices Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, Westboro, Brentwood, and Lakeland Ridge identically to Edmonton neighbourhoods. The drive up Highway 16 from our shop is part of the cost of doing business, not a line item passed to you.
Sherwood Park Refacing Cost Ranges in 2026
Real numbers from recent Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, and Lakeland Ridge projects. Final quote is fixed-price after the in-home measure, no allowances, no change-order surprises.
Pricing scales with door count, material, and hardware. Rift-cut white oak veneer adds roughly 18-22% over painted MDF or maple slab. Integrated channel pulls add $22-$38 per door over standard bar pulls. Fluted vertical-channel fronts add about 15% per panel. Compare to $55,000-$130,000 for full Strathcona County kitchen replacement (new cabinets, quartz refab, plumbing, electrical, drywall, 6-10 weeks of disruption). Every quote is itemized, written, and fixed-price. Book your in-home measure or call 780-938-9555.
Why Sherwood Park Boxes Outlast Today's Big-Box Kitchens
The 1970s and 1980s Mills Haven Build Window
Sherwood Park in Strathcona County (postal codes T8A, T8B, T8C, T8G, and T8H) grew up around the original Mills Haven and Foxhaven subdivisions starting in 1972, then spread east and south through Glen Allan, Nottingham, Brentwood, Westboro, and Broadmoor Estates through the 1980s and 1990s. The original Strathcona County millshops that supplied those builds used 5/8-inch plywood carcasses, dadoed joinery, solid hardwood face frames, and properly-engineered hinge cups. That spec is demonstrably stronger than the 1/2-inch particleboard and confirmat-screw construction shipped by big-box flatpack kitchens since the early 2000s. The original Sherwood Park cabinet boxes will outlast a brand-new big-box kitchen by another 20 years. The honey-oak raised cathedral-arch, pickled-pine slab, or cherry-stain raised-panel doors are the only part of the kitchen that has actually aged out of date.
Doors Are 40-50 Years Out of Style. Boxes Are Better Than New.
The reason refacing dominates Sherwood Park renos rather than full replacement: ripping out a Mills Haven or Foxhaven kitchen to install a flatpack replacement is a measurable downgrade in structural quality. The original plywood boxes from 1976 are stronger than today's particleboard equivalents. The European-cup hinges, while old-style, sit in correctly-bored cups that accept fresh BLUM Compact 38N hardware with no patching. What clients actually want is to keep the structural advantage and lose the honey-oak cathedral arch. Refacing in Sherwood Park delivers exactly that.
Strathcona County Pricing Reality
Full kitchen replacement in Sherwood Park runs $55,000 to $130,000, which is roughly 25-35% higher than the same kitchen rebuilt inside Edmonton city limits. Three factors drive the premium: the contractor market east of Highway 21 is tighter (fewer renovators, less competitive bidding), quartz and stone fabricators charge a delivery surcharge to cross into Strathcona County, and the older homes typically need electrical and plumbing modernization once the boxes come out. Refacing sidesteps all three. The boxes stay, the counter stays, the plumbing stays, and iPaint Painting prices Sherwood Park identically to Edmonton with no travel surcharge from our 9821 33 Ave NW shop.
Still trying to decide between refinishing your existing doors, cabinet painting, or full refacing? Call 780-938-9555. The in-home visit is free, no deposit required. Mourad will tell you straight which option fits your kitchen, your hold horizon, and your budget.
What a Sherwood Park Reface Project Actually Includes
Every Sherwood Park reface quote breaks out the line items. Here is the standard scope for a typical 29-34 door two-storey kitchen with a 6 to 8 foot island in Nottingham, Westboro, Brentwood, or Broadmoor Estates.
- In-home sample visit with physical shaker, slab, fluted, and rift-cut white oak door samples brought to your Mills Haven, Foxhaven, or Glen Allan home
- Digital-caliper field measurement of every door opening to 1/32 inch, European hinge cup mapping, drawer opening capture
- Custom door fabrication by a Canadian specialist in your chosen profile, species, and finish (3-4 week lead time)
- Removal of original 1970s-80s honey-oak, pickled-pine, or cherry-stain doors and responsible Strathcona County disposal
- Cabinet box face veneer skin colour-matched to new door material, contact-adhesive applied and rolled flat onto your original 5/8-inch plywood boxes
- End panel replacement on dishwasher panel, fridge cabinet, pantry sides, and island visible sides
- BLUM Compact 38N soft-close hinge retrofit on every door, replacing the original 1970s European-cup or barrel-and-pin hinges
- Hardware installation in brushed nickel, matte black, unlacquered brass, brass-black combo, or integrated channel pulls
- Walk-in pantry and bar cabinet reface to match the main kitchen for visual continuity across the open-plan main floor
- Precise alignment within 1 mm and complete cleanup before final walkthrough
- 5-year written workmanship warranty activated at final walk and emailed same day
Many Sherwood Park homeowners pair the refacing with our interior painting service to refresh the entire kitchen and adjacent open-plan living and dining areas at the same time. For homes where the original door profile is fine and only the colour needs updating, cabinet painting can be the better-fit option.
Cabinet Refacing Across Sherwood Park & Strathcona County
iPaint Painting refaces cabinets throughout every Sherwood Park subdivision and the surrounding Strathcona County hamlets, with no travel surcharge from our 9821 33 Ave NW shop.
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Cabinet Refacing FAQs, Sherwood Park
Straight answers to the questions Sherwood Park homeowners in Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, and Lakeland Ridge ask most about refacing 1970s-80s kitchens.
My Mills Haven kitchen is from 1978. Are the original cabinet boxes really still worth keeping?
Sherwood Park cabinet boxes from the 1970s and 1980s are usually the strongest reason to choose refacing over replacement. Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, and Brentwood homes built between 1972 and 1988 typically have 5/8-inch plywood carcasses, dadoed joinery, and solid hardwood face frames assembled in a Strathcona County or Edmonton millshop before particleboard became standard. Those boxes are demonstrably stronger than a brand-new big-box flatpack kitchen. The honey-oak raised-panel doors are the only part that has aged. Replace the doors, keep the boxes, and the kitchen outlasts a full demo-and-rebuild by another 20 years.
How much does cabinet refacing cost in Sherwood Park in 2026?
Cabinet refacing in Sherwood Park typically costs $13,000 to $26,000 in 2026, depending on door count, material, and island scope. A Mills Haven or Glen Allan bungalow kitchen with 24-28 doors lands at $13,000-$17,500 in painted MDF shaker or maple slab. A standard Nottingham, Westboro, or Foxhaven kitchen with 29-34 doors runs $17,500-$22,000 once you add a small island and end panels. A larger Broadmoor Estates or Lakeland Ridge two-storey kitchen with 35-38 doors, 10-16 drawer fronts, and an 8-10 foot island reaches $22,000-$26,000, especially in fluted rift-cut white oak. Replacing the same Sherwood Park kitchen runs $55,000 to $130,000, since the Strathcona County contractor market is tighter east of Edmonton and quartz refabrication carries a delivery surcharge across Highway 21. Call 780-938-9555 for an in-home measure.
How long does cabinet refacing take in a Sherwood Park home, and how many days is the kitchen unusable?
A typical Sherwood Park reface takes 7 to 10 working days on-site from the morning the original doors come off Mills Haven, Foxhaven, or Glen Allan boxes to the final walkthrough. Kitchens with 35-38 doors and an island in Broadmoor Estates or Lakeland Ridge run closer to 10 days. The kitchen is only fully unusable for 2 to 3 days in the middle of the project (the veneer cure window and the day new doors are hung). The sink, dishwasher, fridge, and stove all stay connected for the entire reface. iPaint Painting schedules the unusable days mid-week so Sherwood Park families can plan around them. Door fabrication runs 3 to 4 weeks before any on-site work begins, so the typical timeline from your sample visit to the final walk is about 6 weeks.
Why would I reface in Sherwood Park instead of fully replacing my kitchen for $55,000 to $130,000?
Full kitchen replacement in Strathcona County runs $55,000 to $130,000 because the contractor market east of Edmonton is tighter, quartz fabricators charge a delivery premium to cross Highway 21 and Highway 16, and 1970s-80s Sherwood Park homes often need additional electrical and plumbing modernization once the boxes come out. Cabinet refacing in Sherwood Park delivers a brand-new face for $13,000 to $26,000, keeps the structurally superior original Mills Haven or Foxhaven plywood boxes in place, leaves your countertop bolted down, and finishes in 7-10 days instead of 6-10 weeks. Refacing is the math-driven choice when the boxes are good and the doors are simply 40 to 50 years out of style.
Do you reface kitchens across all Sherwood Park subdivisions including Mills Haven, Glen Allan, Broadmoor Estates, and Lakeland Ridge?
Yes. iPaint Painting refaces cabinets throughout every Sherwood Park subdivision in Strathcona County, including Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, Westboro, Brentwood, Lakeland Ridge, Summerwood, Maplegrove, Strathcona Industrial, Salisbury Village, and Heritage Hills. We know the original 1970s and 1980s millwork specs from the Mills Haven and Foxhaven housing boom, the 1990s-2000s Glen Allan and Nottingham builds, and the 2010s-2020s Lakeland Ridge developments off Wye Road and Broadmoor Boulevard. Postal codes T8A, T8B, T8C, T8G, and T8H are all served from our 9821 33 Ave NW shop via Highway 16. Call 780-938-9555 to confirm scheduling for your street.
Sherwood Park's Cabinet Refacing Specialists
Whether it is swapping 1970s honey-oak cathedral arches for fluted rift-cut oak fronts, modernizing brass colonial knobs to matte black hardware, or doing a full two-tone style upgrade across Mills Haven, Foxhaven, Glen Allan, Nottingham, Broadmoor Estates, or Lakeland Ridge, let's talk. Free in-home sample visit, no deposit, no T8 travel surcharge.