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Cabinets are usually the largest single line in a kitchen — around 40% of a full remodel. Set your linear footage, pick refacing or replacement, and see where you land against the tiers published for this area.
Cabinetry is priced by the linear foot, not by the kitchen, which is why two kitchens that look similar can be thousands apart. A typical Spanish Springs kitchen runs 20 to 22 linear feet; a small galley is 12 to 16, and a large kitchen with an island can reach 40 or more. Inside any given footage, the spread comes from three things: whether the boxes are being replaced or just refaced, the door material and style, and whether anything behind the cabinets is moving.
Refacing replaces everything you touch and see — doors, drawer fronts, hinges, hardware — and keeps the carcasses, where most of the cost and all of the demolition live. It runs roughly a third to a half of replacement and takes days rather than weeks. The test is whether the boxes are sound and the layout works. If both are true, refacing is the best value in this calculator.
A flat slab door is the least machining; shaker is the standard; raised panel is more; and inset — where the door sits flush inside the frame rather than over it — is the most demanding thing a cabinet shop does. Reno-area humidity swings hard between a dry summer and a cold winter, and wood moves with it, so a shop that does inset well builds for that movement.
Washoe County lists cabinets and countertops among the interior finish work that needs no building permit. Rearranging water, waste or vent pipes does need one, and so does a new electrical circuit — which is how a job goes from an exempt finish project to a permitted one without anything visible changing.
This calculator works from the 2026 cost figures published on this site for Spanish Springs. What it cannot see is what is behind your walls, how level your floors and cabinets actually are, or what your existing plumbing and wiring will allow. We will come out, measure the kitchen and give you a written scope with no pressure attached.
Book a free estimatePublished 2026 figures for this area put cabinet refacing at $3,000 – $9,000, stock or semi-custom replacement at $6,000 – $16,000, full custom cabinet installation at $12,000 – $30,000+, and cabinet work that also involves layout changes at $15,000 – $35,000+. Where you land inside those is decided mostly by linear footage, the door material and style, and whether anything is moving behind the cabinets.
Refacing is worth it when the cabinet boxes are structurally sound and the layout already works, because you are keeping the two things that are expensive to redo — the carcasses and the demolition — and replacing everything you actually touch. Open a base cabinet and press on the bottom and the back. If it is solid, reface. If it is particleboard that has swollen under the sink, or you need the layout to change, refacing is money spent on the wrong problem.
A small galley is usually 12 to 16 linear feet, a typical kitchen 20 to 22, and a large kitchen with an island 40 or more. Measure along the wall at the base cabinets and count the island separately — it is priced differently because it is a freestanding build rather than a run against a wall.
Generally no. Washoe County's list of work that does not require a building permit explicitly includes interior finish work such as cabinets and countertops. What does require a permit is rearranging the water, waste or vent piping, adding new electrical circuits, mechanical work, and anything structural — so a like-for-like cabinet replacement is exempt while moving the sink to a different wall is not. Spanish Springs spans unincorporated Washoe County and the City of Sparks, so confirm which applies to your address with the relevant building department.
Semi-custom lines typically run four to eight weeks, and full custom longer. That is usually the longest wait in the whole project, which is why the sensible sequence is to order early and demolish late. It also matters that the countertop cannot be templated until the cabinets are physically installed, so a cabinet delay pushes the countertop and the backsplash with it.
No. It is a planning estimate built from the figures published on this site for Spanish Springs. It cannot see how level your floors are, what condition your existing boxes are in, or what is inside the wall behind them. Use it to set a budget and ask better questions, then get the kitchen measured on site.
Planning the whole kitchen? Start at the Spanish Springs kitchen calculator hub, or read more about our custom cabinet installation service.