Homeowners who want to remodel their kitchens to high-quality standards are often quickly derailed by the complicated process and amount of time involved in planning and execution, as well as the exorbitant cost. Having your home disrupted and turned into an orange barrel zone for weeks or months is no fun, nor is eating meals out every night. And replacing high-end cabinets comes with severe sticker shock.

Be not disheartened! There is a solution at hand that drastically shortens the timeline of a kitchen remodel, cutting the mess and disruption to as little as one week, with high-quality materials and finishes to rival the most opulent custom kitchen. What, pray, is this sorcery?

Let us introduce you to Solid Wood Cabinet Refacing. First, a quick primer on refacing. Refacing is a method of renewing faded or outdated cabinet boxes by covering all exposed surfaces with new material. Add to this concept premium solid wood components and you begin to see where we are headed. Solid wood refacing is a craftsman technique that keeps existing cabinetry in place and transforms your kitchen into a showpiece without the hassle, mess and exorbitant cost of tearing out and replacing cabinets.

Please don’t confuse refacing with refinishing – the latter is merely a surface treatment. Solid wood refacing, on the other hand, essentially makes cabinets new again! Not only refacing cabinet box exteriors, but installing brand new custom made solid wood doors and drawer fronts, too.

Now, we realize that all refacing companies are not equal, so you must do your homework. Premium refacers use only thick, premium solid wood facing (as opposed to thin, cheap veneers) and only the best refacers install craftsman- quality, custom-made doors and drawer fronts, concealed adjustable hinges, and new pull hardware. They also offer the most choices in woods, colors and finishes, along with many upgrades.

Among the top refacing companies serving Bluffton and Hilton Head is American Wood Reface. They pull off stellar kitchen transformations with their 1/4″ Solid Wood Refacing System, using premium Amish-made components and high-quality solid wood. There areliterally hundreds of combinations of styles, colors and finishes to choose from, in eight different woods.

American Wood Reface’s team of expert installers specialize in refacing, and have decades of carpentry experience. This allows them to offer extreme cabinetry modifications, such as altering cabinets for a new purpose, building additional cabinetry, extending cabinets to the ceiling, and installing accessibility-enhancing features such as handy roll-out trays and waste bins.

One of their most highly requested modifications addresses the problem of those horrid, difficult-to-access base cabinets – you know the ones – a tiny drawer on top and a cavernous space below, where everything disappears into an abyss of chaos. American Wood Reface can transform these cabinets into full-extension drawer banks with organized, completely accessible storage.

Once the cabinetry modifications are completed, the entire kitchen is refaced, making for a beautiful, cohesive appearance and supreme functionality.

Of course, new countertops are a must, and American Wood Reface offers a dizzying array of options, including Cambria® quartz. New sinks, faucets and countertop lighting are popular add-ons.

One of the most appreciated aspects of dealing with American Wood Reface is how easy they make the process. Starting with a convenient, free, in-home consultation, where you choose all your materials in the comfort of your home and receive on the spot a firm estimate so you know exactly what to expect. Their polite, professional installers arrive on time and clean up after themselves. All work and materials are backed by a robust Lifetime Warranty.

No wonder American Wood Reface has won the “Favorite Cabinet Company” poll in Hilton Head for the last three years in a row!