Service · Montréal, Laval and the West Island

Kitchen cabinet refacing in Montréal, without gutting the room

Your boxes stay. The doors, the drawer fronts, the panels and the hinges do not. Measured in your kitchen, made on Boulevard Thimens, fitted in a day or two.

What it covers

Graphite matte flat panel kitchen doors with slim brass bar pulls and a dark quartz backsplash, Montreal — Matte graphite fronts with slim brass pulls. Colour and hardware are the two decisions that change a kitchen most, and refacing puts both back on the table.

Close view of a slim brass bar pull mounted on a dark cabinet door, by Limakdeco — Every front is drilled in the shop, so the pulls land on one line across the whole run instead of being chased on site.

The service

New fronts, the same room

Refacing is the quiet option. The boxes stay exactly where they are, screwed to the wall and to each other, and everything you actually look at is replaced: the doors, the drawer fronts, the exposed end panels, the toe kicks, the fillers, the hinges. In a kitchen whose layout already works, it is the shortest route to a room that reads as new.

We treat it the way we treat a kitchen built from nothing. Someone comes to the house and measures every opening, because a door three millimetres out of square is a door that never sits flush. The fronts are then cut and finished in our own workshop on Boulevard Thimens in Saint-Laurent, in the same materials we use for a full build: thermofoil heat formed over shaped MDF, melamine, sprayed MDF, or a shaker frame. Two people spend a day on site, sometimes two, and the kitchen is usable again that evening.

When refacing is the right call

The layout is already right. The sink, the range and the fridge are where you want them.
The boxes are sound: square, dry, and the screws still bite.
The countertop is staying, or it is being replaced inside the same footprint.
You want a different colour, a different door profile, or handleless fronts instead of what is there.
You need the kitchen back quickly, with two days of disruption instead of two weeks.

When it is not

If the boxes are swollen at the base from an old leak, if the room needs a wall moved, or if you want the sink somewhere else, refacing is the wrong tool and we say so at the visit. That is a case for custom kitchen cabinets, where the drawings start from the room rather than from the carcasses that are in it. And if the doors are solid wood with a profile you actually like, the answer is often neither: it is stripping and refinishing.

Whichever way it goes, the visit and the written price are free, and the doors we make carry a ten year warranty.

What refacing includesLimakdéco · Saint-Laurent workshop

Scope: Doors, drawer fronts, end panels, fillers, toe kicks
Boxes: Kept in place, adjusted and re-shimmed as needed
Doors: Thermofoil, melamine, sprayed MDF or shaker frame
Profiles: Flat slab, shaker, handleless, integrated grip
Hinges: New soft close, Blum or Richelieu
Drawers: New fronts, and new boxes on request
Hardware: New pulls or knobs, drilled in the shop
Countertop: Kept, or replaced in quartz, quartzite or Dekton
Backsplash: Optional full height panel in the same stone
Drawings: A measured elevation of every run
Measure: On site, before anything is cut
Fabrication: Two to four weeks, in our own shop
On site: One to two days for a normal kitchen
Warranty: Ten years on the doors we make
Area: Montréal, Laval, the West Island and the South Shore
Price: Quoted in writing, after the measure

Materials and options

Thermofoil doorsMelamine doorsSprayed MDF doorsShaker frontsFlat slab frontsHandleless frontsTwo tone kitchensMatte and gloss finishesSoft close hingesBlum and RichelieuNew drawer boxesMatching end panelsToe kicks and fillersLight rail and crownQuartz countertopFull height backsplashBrass and black hardware

Not sure whether your kitchen should be refaced or rebuilt?
Send three photographs and the dimensions of the room, or book the free visit. We will tell you which of the two costs less for the result you actually want, including when that answer is the smaller job.

Cream classic kitchen with a plaster hood, a white range and a warm hardwood floor, Montreal — A cream classic front under a plaster hood. The same box can carry this or a handleless slab: the profile is a choice made at the measure, not a constraint of the kitchen.

White kitchen with black appliances, quartz countertops and an open plan dining area beyond, Montreal — White fronts against black appliances. Because the boxes stay, the plumbing, the electrical and the floor are never touched.

Where we work

Cabinet refacing near you

The workshop is in Saint-Laurent, so most of the island is under half an hour away with a van full of doors. These are the twelve areas we are asked for most often, each with its own page and its own set of finished rooms.

Pointe-ClairePost-war bungalows and split-levels around the Village and Valois, about twenty minutes from the shop.Service area HampsteadLarger 1950s houses off Queen Mary and Fleet, where new fronts have to answer existing millwork.Service area BeaconsfieldLakeside houses on Beaconsfield Boulevard and the streets above Highway 20.Service area VillerayDuplex and triplex kitchens off Jarry and Villeray, narrow rooms that get measured twice.Service area PierrefondsWest Island bungalows and semis. We finished a handleless kitchen here in 2026.Service area Ville-MarieDowntown condos and Old Montréal lofts, with freight lifts and booked delivery windows.Service area Côte-Saint-LucHouses off Cavendish and Mackle, and the towers where the elevator has to be reserved.Service area Plateau-Mont-RoyalThird floor walk-ups off Mont-Royal, carried up by hand and fitted to the millimetre.Service area WestmountGreystones and stone semis above Sherbrooke, usually painted shaker or inset fronts.Service area KirklandNineteen eighties and nineties houses, with the floor area for a real island.Service area Saint-LaurentOur own borough. The workshop is on Thimens, so a site visit is usually the same week.Service area Dollard-des-OrmeauxSplit-levels off Sources and Lake, refacing and full replacements in equal measure.Service area

Kitchens we built from nothing

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Handleless high gloss white kitchen with a black veined quartz backsplash in Pierrefonds

Pierrefonds · 2026

Handleless in Black and White

Two tone kitchen with a sage green island, gold sink and Vicostone Beryl quartz in Pointe-Claire

Pointe-Claire · 2026

Green and Gold Kitchen

Modern white shaker kitchen with a Renoir quartz backsplash in Bois-Franc, Saint-Laurent

Bois-Franc · 2024

White Shaker and Renoir Quartz

Questions about refacing

What people ask before refacing a kitchen in Montréal

How much does kitchen cabinet refacing cost in Montréal?

There is no single figure, because refacing is priced by what is being replaced: the number of doors and drawer fronts, the material chosen for them, how many exposed end panels the run has, and whether the drawer boxes and the countertop are staying. It normally lands well below a full replacement, because the boxes, the plumbing and the electrical all stay where they are. We measure the room, draw the elevations and hand you a written price. The visit and the quote are both free.

How long does refacing a kitchen take?

Two to four weeks between the measure and the delivery, because the fronts are made to your openings rather than pulled off a shelf. On site it is normally one day, two for a large kitchen with a lot of exposed panels. You keep your sink and your appliances throughout.

Can you reface melamine or particle board cabinets?

Yes, provided the boxes are square, dry and still holding a screw. Melamine over particle board is what most Montréal kitchens from the 1980s and 1990s are made of, and it takes new soft close hinges perfectly well. What disqualifies a box is water: a swollen base under a sink, or a delaminated bottom. We check every one at the measure and tell you which ones we would not keep.

Can I change the colour completely?

That is usually the point. The fronts are new, so nothing is being repainted: you are choosing a material. Gloss white, matte graphite, sage green, navy, warm oak, cream shaker. Two tone works too, with the perimeter in one colour and the island in another, which is how the kitchen in our Pointe-Claire project is put together.

Do you replace the drawer boxes as well?

Only if you want them replaced. New fronts fit onto existing drawers, and soft close runners can be added on their own. Where the old boxes are stapled plywood that has begun to rack, we quote new boxes on Blum or Richelieu runners as a separate line, so you can decide with the number in front of you.

Refacing or new cabinets: how do I choose?

Ask one question. Does the layout work? If the sink, the range and the fridge are where you want them and the boxes are sound, refacing gives you the same visual result for less money and less disruption. If you want the sink under the window, a wall removed, or cabinetry to the ceiling where there is none, the honest answer is custom kitchen cabinets.

Do you strip and repaint solid wood doors instead?

We do, and it is a different service. Where the doors are solid maple or oak with a profile worth keeping, stripping, sanding and spraying them is often cheaper and keeps the character of the room. Where they are thermofoil that has started to peel, or melamine, refinishing is not an option and refacing is.

Which areas do you cover?

The workshop is at 4130 Boulevard Thimens in Saint-Laurent. We reface kitchens across the island, in Laval, on the South Shore and along the North Shore. The service areas page lists every one, with the sectors and the drive times.

Limakdéco refaces kitchen cabinets in Pointe-Claire, Hampstead, Beaconsfield, Villeray, Pierrefonds, Ville-Marie, Côte-Saint-Luc, the Plateau, Westmount, Kirkland, Saint-Laurent and Dollard-des-Ormeaux, and builds custom kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and stone countertops across Montréal and Laval. See every area we serve →

The rest of the workshop

Other things we make and fit

Refacing is one of eight services, and most projects use two or three of them together: new fronts with a new countertop, or a full kitchen with a vanity to match.

Custom kitchen cabinetsDrawn, built and installed from nothing, in our own workshop.Service Kitchen installationDelivery, levelling, scribing and finishing, usually one to three days.Service Kitchen countertopsQuartz, quartzite, Dekton and porcelain, templated and installed.Service Cabinet stripping and refinishingStripping, sanding and spraying solid wood and MDF doors.Service Kitchen design and 3D plansMeasured drawings, elevations and 3D views before anything is cut.Service Commercial millworkReception desks, counters and fitted storage for commercial rooms.Service Bathroom vanitiesFloating and floor standing vanities, mirrors and storage towers.Service Everything we makeThe full list of services, all out of the same workshop in Saint-Laurent.All services

Before you decide on refacing

Refacing kitchen cabinets in Montréal, and when it beats replacingGuide Custom kitchen cabinets in Montréal, built to measureGuide Quartz, quartzite or Dekton: three countertop materials comparedMaterials What happens on installation day, in six stepsProcess Five planning steps before you order a kitchenPlanning

Limakdéco showroom at 4130 Boulevard Thimens, Saint-Laurent, Montréal

4130 Boul. Thimens, Saint-Laurent

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Visit us

See the fronts and the finishes in person

Showroom: 4130 Boulevard Thimens, Saint-Laurent, QC H4R 2B9Free parking at the door
Hours: Mon to Fri · 10am to 6pmSaturday 11am to 4pm
Phone: (514) 887-3324
Email: info@limakdeco.com

Free visit→Drawings and a written price→Built and installed by us

Doors, hinges and stone samples are all in the showroom on Boulevard Thimens. It is about twenty minutes from Pointe-Claire, ten from Côte-Saint-Luc, and twenty-five from the Plateau.

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