We fix cabinet doors that hang crooked, hinges that pulled loose and drawers that came off their slides, we change pulls and hinges, and we hang new boxes in kitchens, baths and laundry rooms. Serving Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany and nearby. One repair visit usually runs $150-$450, labour only, going by Portland-area market data .
If counters, flooring and appliances are changing too, start with our kitchen remodel page. The work is done by Slava, who brings 7 years of hands-on experience.
Which cabinet jobs do we take on?
Repairs first: a door that drifts out of line, a hinge whose screws spun out of the side panel, a drawer front coming off, a slide that dropped off its rail.
Hardware second: knobs, pulls and hinges, one cabinet or a whole room, including soft-close upgrades.
Then full installs: runs of kitchen boxes, wall units over a toilet or washer, and possibly a single unit like a pantry tower . Painting the boxes is a separate trade on cabinet painting; vanities and medicine cabinets are on bathroom refresh.
How much do cabinet repairs and installs run near Portland?
Market ranges for labour only; Slava hasn't set his own rates yet.
| Work | Priced per | Low end | High end | Usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repairing a door, hinge or drawer | visit | $150 | $450 | $250 |
| New pulls, knobs or soft-close hinges | visit | $120 | $500 | $250 |
| Installing a kitchen's worth of cabinets | kitchen | $1,500 | $8,000 | $3,500 |
Figures derive from what Portland trades charge per hour (November 2026). Boxes, pulls and hinges are a separate purchase.
An install climbs with the box count, pulling out the old set, a crooked floor, filler strips cut to an uneven wall, crown and kick-plate trim, boring every door for pulls, and boxes that arrive flat. A repair or a hardware swap takes about two hours; a kitchen is closer to 30 labour hours .
Against a big-box store's quote, check that it covers removal, fillers, trim, pull drilling and hooking the sink back up. Any residential job above $2,000 calls for a written, signed contract under Oregon rules, plus three notices the state requires; if a smaller cabinet job grows past that figure, the contract has to follow within five days.
Should a sagging cabinet door be repaired or replaced?
Usually repaired. Most modern doors hang on concealed cup hinges with two or three adjusting screws, so a door that knocks into its neighbour can often be brought back in a few minutes. When the screws have chewed through particleboard, a longer screw won't hold; the hole needs to be rebuilt or the hinge moved to fresh material.
Slides get matched by length and mounting style, so the drawer box stays. The one thing we'd call a replacement is a sink base that swelled after a slow leak, because wet particleboard doesn't come back . Fixing what you have is often the cheapest of the three options, ahead of refacing or new boxes .
Will you put in cabinets from IKEA, Home Depot or Lowe's?
Possibly . Have the order sheet, every carton delivered and the appliance spec sheets ready. We'd open the cartons and look for shipping dents before anything old gets torn out. We aren't connected to any of these stores.
Doing it yourself, one upper or new pulls is a reasonable Saturday project. A full run is harder: bases are set from the floor's highest spot, every box is screwed into framing, and uppers need support while they go up.
How big should new pulls be, and can doors be made soft-close?
Designers often size a pull at roughly one third of how wide the drawer is. When replacing pulls, keeping the same hole spacing saves you from filling and touching up the old holes, and a drilling template keeps every pull in the room on one line.
For soft-close you can clip a damper onto the existing hinges or swap to new hinges with the damping built in. Older face-frame cabinets and frameless European-style boxes take different hinges .
Who handles the sink, the dishwasher and the counter during a cabinet swap?
Bases go in first, the counter is templated on them, then uppers follow . Counters are on countertops and backsplash.
Under the state codes office's rules, replacing an exposed sink or faucet in the same spot counts as minor plumbing with no permit needed, while Portland wants a plumbing permit for new fixtures like dishwashers or for moving pipes. Who unhooks and reconnects your current sink and dishwasher, us or a plumber, is still open . We never relocate a sink or touch a gas range. Under-cabinet lighting too .
How are cabinets different in a 1960s or 70s west-side house?
Much of Cedar Hills went up in the 1950s-60s, a lot of Cedar Mill in the 1960s-70s, and Beaverton's run from the 1960s to the 1990s. Original kitchens in houses that age rarely have a flat floor or a plumb wall, so new boxes get shimmed and fillers scribed. Soffits over old uppers may hide a duct or a pipe . Rough plaster behind the old set goes to drywall repair.
Houses built before 1978 may have lead paint on old cabinets and walls, and work that would disturb it is something we decline. For earthquakes, uppers belong on studs rather than drywall anchors, and latches keep dishes inside; that's part of seismic retrofit.