Bluffton Custom Cabinets builds and installs custom cabinets for kitchens, bathrooms, and the rest of the house across Bluffton and the Lowcountry. Most calls start the same way — a kitchen that works fine but looks tired, a bathroom vanity that was never quite right, or a new home in Okatie that needs cabinets worth the house around them.
We handle the whole range: custom kitchen cabinets built to your room, cabinet refacing when the boxes are sound and only the face needs to change, and bathroom vanity cabinets sized to the inch. We also build built-ins and closet systems for the rooms that never have enough storage.
Here is how it works. You call or send the form, we come measure in person, and you get a free written estimate before anything starts. No showroom markup games, no pressure at the table. The price we write down is the price, and it names the tier, the wood, and the finish so you can hold us to it.
Cabinets are priced by the linear foot — one foot of cabinet run, uppers and lowers on the same wall counted once. These are the published national ranges we bid from, trimmed to what Lowcountry jobs actually land at. Run your kitchen through the same math, then get the exact number in writing, free.
Installed, by the linear foot: stock runs $100–$285, semi-custom $190–$615, and custom $475–$1,140. A typical 20-foot semi-custom kitchen in maple lands around $3,800–$12,300 before counters. Angi's national average for a full cabinet job is $6,191, with most projects between $1,935 and $10,769 — a Bluffton kitchen built to order usually sits in that same band. Countertops are priced separately.
New doors and drawer fronts plus a new skin on your existing boxes: $120–$350 a linear foot for a typical mix, with laminate at $40–$100 and solid wood doors at $160–$390. Refacing only works when the boxes are sound and the layout stays — when it fits, it lands at roughly half the cost of new cabinets and takes days, not weeks.
You supply the cabinets, we hang them level and true: $45–$110 a foot for stock, $70–$135 for semi-custom, $180–$270 for custom work that needs scribing and fitting. Removing and hauling off the old cabinets adds $15–$20 a foot when you want it on the same ticket.
A prefab vanity installed runs about $140–$360 a foot of width; a custom vanity built to the room runs $280–$750 a foot. Most single vanities land between $500 and $2,000 installed — small jobs carry minimums because the trip, the setup, and the hookup are the same either way.
Sprayed paint on sound cabinets: doors $65–$110 each, drawer fronts $30–$100, and the boxes and frames $25–$36 a foot. A typical 20-door kitchen lands around $2,050–$3,725. Refinishing — strip and re-stain — prices a step higher (doors $75–$125, drawer fronts $35–$115, boxes $29–$41 a foot; the same kitchen refinished lands $2,350–$4,250) and has its own calculator entry below. Painting is the right call when the layout works and the boxes are solid — it is not a fix for failing cabinets.
Strip and re-stain, priced by the piece: doors $75–$125 each, drawer fronts $35–$115, and the boxes and frames $29–$41 a foot. The typical 20-door kitchen lands $2,350–$4,250 — inside HomeGuide's published refinishing range of $1,500–$4,500. Refinishing keeps the wood and changes the tone; it is the right call on cherry, walnut, and oak that should never be painted over.
Ranges are the published numbers we bid from: Angi's national cabinet data (installation $100–$1,200 per linear foot by tier; average project $6,191; refacing by material), HomeGuide's cabinet guides (per-box and per-foot bands, vanity totals, painting per-door pricing), and Fixr's national averages — trimmed about 5% for the Bluffton market, the same method our fleet's cabinet rate card documents.
A note on materials. These ranges are figured on semi-custom cabinets in maple, the middle of the market. Wood moves the number: oak runs a little under maple, cherry and walnut run over it, and painted finishes price by the work, not the species. Particleboard boxes with a custom face are not custom cabinets — when you compare quotes, ask what the box is made of. We confirm the exact wood, box construction, and finish at the in-person estimate, in writing, before any work starts.
Measure along the wall. Uppers + lowers on the same wall count once. Count an island foot for foot.
Figured on semi-custom maple. Ceiling-height or stacked cabinets add about 10% — the written estimate shows it as its own line.
Your existing boxes stay — this is new doors, drawer fronts, and a new skin on the boxes.
Refacing needs sound boxes and a layout that stays. If either fails, the estimate visit will tell you straight.
The cabinets you bought, hung level and true. Cabinets, hardware, and countertops are yours to supply.
Labor only. If the walls are out of plumb — common in older Beaufort County homes — scribing time is in these bands. Removing and hauling off the old run adds $15–$20 a foot, figured into the written estimate.
One vanity measured across the front. Two vanities? Add both widths together — prices are mostly minimums at this size.
Old-vanity removal usually runs $150–$500 and is quoted on the visit, not guessed here.
Grain-filling open-grained oak can add up to 50% on labor, and cabinets over 8 feet add about 10% — both get named on the written estimate.
The old finish comes all the way off before the new stain goes on — that stripping labor is the difference from painting.
Free — no obligation. Your calculator numbers ride along with the request.
Your estimate is attached automatically. Add your info and tell us about the project — the room, what you are changing, anything we should know before we come out. Prefer to talk? Call (854) 209-5153.
The kind of cabinet work we do around Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Beaufort County — what the job was, what it cost, and what the homeowner says after.
The projects below are representative of the work we do around Bluffton and the Lowcountry — the kind of jobs, the way they're priced, and what homeowners tell us after. Verified customer projects replace these examples as jobs close.
24 feet of semi-custom maple cabinets with a working island, soft-close everything, and a pull-out pantry wall in a Ridgeland kitchen that had not been touched since the house was built.
Final price: $9,800
Our kitchen was original to the house and it showed. They measured twice, showed me the price in writing, and held it. The island alone changed how the whole house works — everybody ends up there now.
30 feet of custom cabinets for a Sea Pines kitchen remodel, scribed to walls that were nowhere near plumb, finished for salt air.
Final price: $21,500
Beach houses eat cheap cabinets. These were built for the humidity, and the finish is the first one that has held up to a summer here. Worth every dollar over the box-store quote we almost took.
A 6-foot custom double vanity with a linen tower for a Sun City primary bath — storage the builder never put in.
Final price: $3,400
The builder vanity had two sinks and no drawers. Now everything has a place. They matched the new vanity to the trim color so it looks like it was always there.
10 feet of built-in library cabinets and window-seat storage in a historic Beaufort home, built to match 1920s trim profiles.
Final price: $6,900
Matching new work to old trim is where most people fail. They profiled the existing molding and built to it. Guests assume the shelves are original to the house.
22 feet of refacing in real wood veneer with new soft-close doors — the boxes were solid, the face was dated oak from the 90s.
Final price: $3,900
I could not justify tearing out good boxes. New doors, new skin, new hardware, and it reads as a new kitchen. Done in four days and the price never moved.
26 doors, 10 drawer fronts, and 24 feet of boxes sprayed in a warm white for a Pooler kitchen that needed light more than it needed new cabinets.
Final price: $3,600
The cabinets were good wood in a bad color. The sprayed finish looks factory — no brush marks, no drips. My kitchen is the bright room of the house now.
Custom Kitchen Cabinets
A kitchen built around your room, not a warehouse shelf. We measure in your home, build to the inch, and install with our own crew — stock, semi-custom, and fully custom tiers, priced per foot in writing before we start.
When the boxes are solid and the layout works, refacing gives you a new kitchen face for a fraction of a tear-out — new doors, new drawer fronts, real wood veneer or laminate over the boxes you already own.
Vanities sized to your bathroom instead of the two sizes the big stores stock — single, double, and linen towers, with the drawer space a builder vanity never has.
Library walls, window seats, mudroom storage, and closet systems that end the pile-on-the-chair problem. Built-ins publish at $250 to $1,200 a foot depending on detail — your written estimate pins it down.
Good wood in a bad color is a painting job, not a replacement. We spray doors, drawer fronts, and boxes for a factory finish — doors run $65 to $110 each, and most kitchens land well under a tear-out.
It starts with a free visit. We come to your home, measure the room, and talk through what is not working — storage, layout, finish, or all three. You hear real numbers at that visit, not a ballpark that grows later.
Then you get the price in writing: the tier, the wood, the finish, and the total, per foot where that is how the work is priced. The number we write is the number you pay. If something in the walls changes the job, we show you before we touch it.
Install is our own crew, start to finish. We protect floors and counters, keep the room usable as long as we can, and walk the finished work with you before the final bill.
Installed per linear foot: stock runs $100–$285, semi-custom $190–$615, and fully custom $475–$1,140, with the wood moving the number — oak at the low end, walnut about 30% over maple. A typical 20-foot Bluffton kitchen in semi-custom lands between about $3,800 and $12,300 before countertops. The calculator on this page runs the same math; your free written estimate pins it to your room.
Refacing is worth it when the boxes are solid wood or good plywood and the layout works — you keep the structure and replace the face for $40–$390 a foot depending on material. If boxes are particleboard, water-damaged, or the layout itself is the problem, replacement is the honest answer and we will tell you that at the visit.
Refacing and painting usually run 4–5 days in the home. A full custom kitchen is measured in weeks from order to install day because the cabinets are built to your room — we give you the schedule in writing before you sign, and install itself is typically 2–4 days.
No. The visit, the measuring, and the written estimate are free, and the estimate names the tier, wood, and finish so you can compare it line by line with anyone else's.
Bluffton Custom Cabinets is a local cabinet builder serving Bluffton, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, and the rest of the Lowcountry. One crew measures, builds, and installs your cabinets — nobody hands your kitchen off to a stranger.
Ready when you are — call (854) 209-5153 or send the form and we will call you back to set up your free estimate.
