Custom Cabinets, Refacing & Built-Ins
Sioux Falls Elite Custom Cabinets builds and installs custom cabinets for kitchens, bathrooms, and the rest of the house across Sioux Falls and the towns around it. Most calls start the same way — a kitchen that works fine but looks tired, a bathroom vanity that was never quite right, or one of the new homes going up in Tea and Brandon 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.
South Dakota puts cabinets through a real test — dry heated air all winter that shrinks wood, humid summers that swell it back, and a lot of cooking in between. We build and finish for that swing, and we measure every room in person — Brandon, Harrisburg, and everywhere between — before we quote it.
Not sure what yours will run? Start with the calculator just below — then call us and we will come give you the free written estimate.
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 Sioux Falls-area 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 Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls 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 Sioux Falls-area 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 (605) 937-6803.
On our published rate card: stock cabinets run $100–$285 a linear foot, semi-custom $190–$615, and full custom $475–$1,140. A typical 20-foot semi-custom Sioux Falls kitchen estimates at $3,800–$12,300 before we measure; your free written estimate pins your kitchen exactly.
Reface when the boxes are solid and the layout works — it runs $120–$350 a linear foot and finishes in days. Replace when the boxes are damaged or the layout itself is the problem. We will tell you which one your kitchen is at the measure visit, in writing, even when the honest answer is the cheaper job.
Refacing runs 3–5 days. Painting about a week. A new semi-custom kitchen typically installs over two weeks after a 4–6 week build window, and full custom runs longer. Every written estimate carries the real schedule for your job.
Yes — installation-only is $70–$135 a linear foot at the semi-custom standard, with old-cabinet removal at $15–$20 a foot when you need it. Both numbers are printed on the estimate before we start.
Sioux Falls and the towns around it — Brandon, Tea, Harrisburg, Dell Rapids, Hartford, Lennox, and the rest of our service area. The measure visit and written estimate are free anywhere in it.
Yes. We measure in person, and you get a written estimate that names the tier, the wood, the finish, and the price. The price we write is the price — if something in the walls changes the job, we talk about it before it changes the bill.
Ready when you are — call or send the form and we will set up your free in-home measure and written estimate.
The kind of cabinet work we do around Sioux Falls — what the job was, what it cost, and what the homeowner says after.
The projects below are representative of the work we do around Sioux Falls and eastern South Dakota — the kind of jobs, the way they're priced, and what homeowners tell us after. Verified customer projects replace these examples as jobs close.
A 22-linear-foot semi-custom kitchen in a Brandon family home — shaker doors, a navy island with seating, and soft-close everything, measured and installed by our own crew.
Final price: $8,900
Two other quotes were a number and a shrug. These folks measured twice, named the tier and the finish in writing, and the kitchen went in on the days they said it would.
An 18-linear-foot refacing in Tea: sound boxes kept, new doors and drawer fronts, new skin on the frames, and hardware throughout — done in days while the family kept cooking in the kitchen.
Final price: $3,950
Our boxes were fine and I could not face a full remodel with two kids. New doors, new fronts, four days, and it honestly looks like a new kitchen. The price never moved.
A 5-foot custom double vanity built to the inch for a Harrisburg primary bath — furniture-style legs, dovetailed drawers, and room for two at the morning rush.
Final price: $2,650
The store vanities were all an inch too wide or a drawer short. This one fits like it grew there, and the drawers actually clear the plumbing. Worth every penny.
Fourteen linear feet of living-room built-ins in Dell Rapids — a full wall of bookcases with closed storage below, scribed tight to the walls of an old house.
Final price: $5,900
The wall was dead space for ten years. Now it is the room. They scribed everything to walls that are not straight — this is an old house — and you cannot find a gap.
A 20-door Hartford kitchen sprayed in a warm white — doors and drawer fronts finished in the shop, boxes sprayed in place, new hardware throughout. The layout never changed; the kitchen did.
Final price: $2,850
I got three quotes to replace and one to paint. The paint quote came with the math printed, and the finish looks factory — no brush marks, no drips, doors like glass.
A 26-linear-foot full custom kitchen in Sioux Falls — dark-stained oak throughout, fluted fronts on the island, marble counters with a full-height splash, and drawers laid out around how Anna actually cooks.
Final price: $19,800
We interviewed four shops. This was the only written estimate that named the wood, the tier, and the finish — and the only crew that asked how we cook before they drew anything.
New builds in Tea and Brandon, older homes near downtown, acreages out past Harrisburg — the cabinets differ, the standard does not: measured in person, priced in writing, installed by our own crew.
