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Which Part of a Kitchen Remodel Costs the Most in Davie, and What Comes Second

Which part of a kitchen remodel costs the most in Davie is the cabinets, almost every time. They are the largest single line on most quotes, and the gap between the cheapest boxes and the best ones is wider than the gap between any two countertop materials. After that, the biggest mover is not a material at all. It is whether the sink, the range or a wall has to move.

Boxes stay
$28,458
JLC Cost vs Value 2025, national
Boxes come out
$82,793
the same room, rebuilt
Which part of a kitchen remodel costs the most in Davie: a finished kitchen with wood cabinets running along two walls, a light quartz countertop and a stainless range
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Why the Cabinets Lead Every Quote

Cabinets are the only part of a kitchen that gets built to your room. A countertop is cut from a slab and a faucet comes out of a box, but the boxes on your walls are made to the dimensions of a kitchen that already exists, in a quantity your floor plan decides. Two houses on the same street can take a very different amount of cabinetry, and the quote follows the cabinetry.

The second reason is that the spread inside the category is enormous, and most of it disappears from view once the doors are hung. Consumer Reports splits cabinets into stock, semi-custom and custom, and its kitchen cabinet buying guide sets out what separates them: solid wood drawer sides with dovetail joinery against stapled particleboard, plywood shelves against thinner board that sags, full-extension guides against integrated rails. None of that shows in a photograph. All of it shows on the invoice, and all of it shows the first time somebody pulls a loaded drawer all the way out.

The Part That Is a Decision, Not a Material

After the cabinets, the next big mover is not something you pick off a sample board. It is whether the sink, the range or a wall stays where it is.

Moving a fixture sounds like one plumbing line and one electrical line. It is neither. It re-plans the room. The National Kitchen & Bath Association rebuilt its kitchen planning guidelines on the 2024 International Residential Code, and the ground a kitchen plan has to cover shows the size of the ripple: clear floor spaces, activity centers, electrical planning, ventilation, cabinetry and casework, code compliance. Move the sink and you have moved supply and drain lines, changed the counter run above them, changed the outlets around it, and changed what has to be reviewed before any of the work starts.

That is why a quote for a kitchen that keeps its layout and a quote for the same kitchen with the sink on a different wall are not two versions of one job. They are two different jobs that happen to be in the same room.

A finished kitchen with a long run of shaker base cabinets, a quartz countertop and brushed nickel handles on the drawer fronts

The Cheapest Decision Comes Before the Demolition

Everything above says one thing in three ways. The money gets decided early, by choices that cost nothing to make and a great deal to undo. The biggest of them has a published price on it.

The 2025 Cost vs. Value Report from the Journal of Light Construction prices a minor kitchen remodel, which it defines as a 200 square foot kitchen with 30 linear feet of cabinets where the boxes stay and the fronts and hardware are replaced, at $28,458 nationally. It prices a major remodel, where the boxes come out and the room is rebuilt, at $82,793. That is the same room twice, with one decision sitting between the two numbers.

Which of them you are in is not settled by taste, and it is not settled at the showroom. It is settled by whether the boxes are sound and whether the layout has to change, and both of those can be answered before anybody quotes anything. Get them wrong and you buy an expensive answer to a question you did not have. Get them right and the parts that cost the most turn out to be the parts you actually wanted.

Why the Answer Is Sharper in Davie

Davie's housing stock has a median construction year of 1987, which puts more weight on this answer here than it would carry in a newer town. In a kitchen that age, the cabinet boxes are the variable. If they are square, dry and solidly built, the cheapest path in the project is open to you: keep them, and change what you see and touch. If the base cabinets around the sink have been living with a slow leak and South Florida humidity, the particleboard underneath has usually given up, and keeping them stops being a saving. That one look inside the sink base, done before anything is quoted, decides which budget you are in.

A finished kitchen with white shaker cabinets, a quartz countertop and a stainless undermount sink below a window

The three price bands being advertised around here, and what each one is actually measuring, are laid out on our Davie kitchen remodeling page.

Common Questions

In a Davie kitchen, are cabinets still the biggest cost if the boxes stay?

Usually not. Keeping the boxes takes the largest line off the quote and leaves the doors, drawer fronts and hardware. In that version of the job the countertop is often the biggest single item.

Do appliances count toward what a Davie kitchen remodel costs?

Often they are not in the remodeler's quote at all, which is one reason two quotes for the same kitchen can look nothing alike. Ask whether appliances are included before you compare any two numbers.

Which parts of a Davie kitchen remodel move the total the least?

Hardware, backsplash and fixtures. They do a lot for how the room feels and very little to the bottom of the invoice, which makes them the wrong place to look for savings.

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None of this settles what your kitchen costs, and it is not meant to. It settles the order. The cabinets first, then whether anything moves, then everything else. Two quotes that differ by a lot are usually not disagreeing about the price of a countertop. They are describing different answers to those first two questions, and the only way to compare them is to make both of them say out loud which answer they assumed.

Want to know which of these your kitchen is?

Tell us whether the cabinet boxes are sound and whether the sink stays where it is. Those two answers put your kitchen in a band before anybody quotes you anything, and you will hear them in that order.

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