What Do Cabinet Services Cost in Bellevue, WA — and How Long Do They Take?
October 23, 2026
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Custom Touch Interiors provides cabinets services in Bellevue from one showroom at 13029 NE 20th St: kitchen, bath, bar and built-in cabinetry from Canyon Creek, Hallmark, Bertch and Merit, selected alongside your tile, slab and flooring, and installed by our own project managers and installers. Below is what cabinets cost here, how long they take, and when refacing is the smarter call.
By Chellaigne Vert, Owner · Last updated October 2026
For a typical Eastside kitchen, cabinetry is usually the single largest line on the budget — often around a third of the total — and the number moves with six things: how many boxes you need, how the boxes are built, the door style, the finish, how many modifications the layout requires, and installation. Regional data puts a midrange Seattle-area kitchen with semi-custom cabinets at roughly $45,000 to $90,000 all-in, and the cabinet portion tracks that spread.
A few things move Bellevue pricing specifically:
A flat per-linear-foot number quoted before anyone has seen your kitchen is a guess. Bring measurements or a floor plan to the showroom and you’ll leave with a real one.
The labels describe how much the factory will deviate from its catalog — not quality by themselves.
Stock means fixed sizes in 3-inch increments, a short list of doors and finishes, no modifications. It’s the fastest and least expensive route, and it works well when the layout is simple and the walls are true.
Semi-custom is standardized boxes with a long modification list: custom widths and depths, extended heights, dozens of door styles, and finishes you can specify rather than pick from a shelf. This is where most of the Bellevue kitchens we do land. Canyon Creek — built in Monroe, about 35 minutes northeast of the showroom — covers this tier with two frameless collections and a framed one, from the value-priced Katana line up to Millennia and Cornerstone. Bertch (Iowa) and Merit (built in Surrey, B.C.) give us two more semi-custom options with different door catalogs and price points.
Custom is built from drawings, not a catalog. You get inset doors, odd angles, a matched finish to an existing piece, and whatever the room needs. You pay for the drafting and the time.
What rarely gets explained: frameless versus framed changes the kitchen more than the label does. Frameless boxes give you roughly an inch more interior width per cabinet and full-overlay doors with tight reveals — the look most Medina and Clyde Hill rebuilds ask for. Framed boxes give the traditional face-frame look and scribe more forgivingly into the out-of-square walls of an older home. Both are on our floor side by side.
Plan on the cabinet order being the long pole in a Bellevue kitchen remodel. As of 2026, semi-custom lines generally run in the range of 6 to 10 weeks from signed order to delivery, and fully custom or inset work commonly runs 10 to 14 weeks or more. Painted finishes and specialty doors add time at the factory; a locally built line like Canyon Creek saves time on freight, not on finishing.
The part that catches homeowners is what happens after delivery. Countertops can’t be templated until the bases are set and level, and quartz or stone fabrication is its own two-week-ish clock after templating. So the realistic sequence is: measure and design, order, wait, install cabinets, template slab, wait again, install slab, then backsplash. Picking your countertop slab on the same showroom visit as the cabinets doesn’t shorten fabrication, but it does mean the two decisions already agree with each other when the templater shows up.
If the project moves plumbing or electrical, permitting runs on its own timeline. Bellevue Development Services issues a single-family remodel permit with no plan review for non-structural kitchen work, often the same day, but inspections are still required and a field inspector can push a project into full plan review if the scope grows.
Usually yes — refacing a kitchen (new doors and drawer fronts, veneer or paint on the existing boxes, new hardware) typically costs a fraction of new cabinetry because the boxes, the demo and much of the labor stay out of the quote. Whether it’s worth it depends on two things: are the existing boxes sound, and is the layout staying exactly as it is.
Refacing is the right answer when the boxes are solid plywood or well-built older construction, the layout works, and the goal is the look. One of our Bellevue customers did precisely this — refinished her existing cabinets with another company, then came to us for new countertops and backsplash, and told us afterward she gets compliments on the kitchen constantly.
Refacing is the wrong answer when the boxes are particleboard that’s swelled near the sink or dishwasher, when drawers are falling off their guides, when you want deeper drawers or a different island, or when the 8-foot-ceiling soffit kitchen is the thing you actually dislike. New doors on a layout you don’t like is money spent to keep what’s wrong.
Our cabinet work is new cabinetry, so we have no stake in talking you out of a reface. Bring a photo of the inside of a base cabinet and we’ll tell you honestly which side of the line you’re on.
Because Pacific Northwest light is not the light in the catalog photo. A warm white that looks right under studio lighting reads cool and faintly blue in a north-facing Bellevue kitchen on a gray January morning, which is most mornings. Stained woods shift too — a medium walnut can go muddy under our overcast light.
The showroom floor exists to solve this. Take a door sample home, set it against your wall, and look at it at 8 a.m. and again at 6 p.m. Then set it next to the slab and the backsplash tile, which are on the same floor, under the same light, a few steps away. A builder partner, R. Sanford of Lochwood-Lozier Homes, put it this way about working with our team: the color-selection meetings are where the coordination happens, and that’s where Custom Touch excels. Our builder and designer program runs on the same floor for the same reason.
And open the drawers. Drawer-box construction, soft-close hardware and how the finish wraps the door edge are what a rendering can’t show and a bad cabinet hides until year three.
The showroom sits in the Wilburton area just off SR-520 and I-405, which puts most of the Eastside within a short drive. For cabinet projects we work across Bellevue — Enatai, Woodridge, Eastgate, Wilburton and the West Bellevue neighborhoods — and regularly on Mercer Island, in Medina and Clyde Hill, and out through Kirkland, Redmond and Issaquah. Completed kitchens are in the cabinet gallery, and the install side of the business is described on our installations page.
If your project includes a backsplash or bathroom tile, we’ve written a separate guide to tile services in Bellevue — same showroom, same installers.
What do new kitchen cabinets cost in Bellevue?
Usually the largest single line in a kitchen budget — often around a third. Regional data puts a midrange Seattle-area kitchen with semi-custom cabinets at roughly $45,000 to $90,000 all-in. Box count, construction, door style, finish, modifications, installation and (since October 2025) import tariffs set the cabinet number itself.
Custom, semi-custom or stock: what actually changes?
How far the factory deviates from its catalog: fixed sizes and a short finish list (stock), standardized boxes with deep modification and finish options (semi-custom), or built from drawings (custom). Frameless versus framed construction changes the look and storage more than the label does.
How long is the lead time on custom cabinetry?
As of 2026, roughly 6 to 10 weeks for semi-custom and 10 to 14 weeks or more for custom and inset work, plus about two weeks of slab fabrication after the cabinets are set.
Is refacing worth it or is replacing better value?
Reface when the boxes are sound and the layout stays. Replace when boxes are swollen or failing, when you want a different layout or deeper drawers, or when the footprint is the real problem.
Why look at doors and finishes in person before choosing?
Pacific Northwest light shifts whites cooler and stains muddier than catalog photos show, and the door has to agree with the slab and the tile. Take a sample home, check it morning and evening, then compare it against your countertop and backsplash on the same floor.
Bring a floor plan, measurements, a photo of your current kitchen — or nothing at all. Plan a showroom visit and we’ll walk the cabinet displays with you.
Custom Touch Interiors
Adress:13029 NE 20th St Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 883-0555
Hours: Monday & Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Tuesday–Thursday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM · Saturday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Sunday closed
Serving Bellevue and the surrounding Eastside, including Enatai, Woodridge, Eastgate and Wilburton, and nearby Mercer Island, Medina, Clyde Hill, Kirkland, Redmond and Issaquah.
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