Cabinets and countertops in Orangetree typically run $14,000-$45,000, with most jobs finished in 2 to 4 weeks
That price covers new cabinet boxes, doors, drawer fronts, hardware, and the countertop material you choose, installed in an Orangetree kitchen up to about 200 square feet. Your specific layout, material grade, and whether any plumbing or drywall gets moved pushes you to the high end of that range. The timeline breaks into roughly a week for demolition and prep, a week for cabinet installation, and another week for templating, fabricating, and setting the countertops. Call (844) 638-7249 to talk through your kitchen with someone who can give you a real number, not a guess.
How we do cabinets and countertops, from the first walk-through to the final wipe-down
Most homeowners have never ordered custom cabinets or watched a countertop slab get templated. Knowing the sequence removes the anxiety. Here is exactly how it goes on an Orangetree job.
1. On-site measure and material selection (Day 1-3)
We come to your home, take laser measurements of every wall, corner, soffit, and window opening, and note where the plumbing stub-outs and electrical boxes sit. You sit with us and decide cabinet door style, wood species or thermofoil finish, hinge type, drawer glide hardware, and whether you want pull-out trays, soft-close, or dovetailed drawer boxes. We also pull countertop samples from our suppliers so you see the actual slab, not a catalog photo. This stage takes two to three days because the decisions are dense and they lock in the final price.
2. Permitting and order placement (Day 3-7)
Because many Orangetree homes were built right around the 1992 Hurricane Andrew code overhaul, any cabinet work paired with electrical or plumbing changes triggers a permit review under current wind-load and flood-elevation codes. We pull the permit, submit the cabinet order with full shop drawings, and finalize the countertop slab reservation at the fabricator. The clock on cabinet lead time starts here, typically 3 to 5 weeks for semi-custom. You get a project calendar showing exactly which days the crew arrives and what happens on each.
3. Demolition and rough prep (2-3 days)
Existing cabinets, countertops, backsplash, and soffits come out. If there is water damage behind the old sink base or delaminating drywall at the dishwasher opening, we find it here and replace only what is needed. This is also when we rough-in any relocated plumbing or additional electrical circuits you chose earlier, a frequent ask in Orangetree homes where the original 1988-2005 kitchens were wired for far fewer appliances than today’s islands and under-cabinet lighting demand. Drywall gets patched, textured, and primed so the new cabinets mount to a clean, flat surface.
4. Cabinet installation (3-5 days onsite, depending on kitchen size)
Uppers go in first, then base cabinets. Every box is shimmed level and screwed to the studs, not just to the drywall. Crown molding and light rail get cut and installed at this stage. Once the cabinets are set, a countertop templater comes out with a digital laser rig to capture the exact as-built footprint, because even the best installer will have millimeter variances a pre-cut slab cannot absorb. Templates go to the fabricator, and fabrication takes 5 to 10 business days depending on the material and edge profile you chose.
5. Countertop install and final trim (1-2 days)
The slab arrives on a dedicated stone truck. Seams get color-matched epoxy, sinks get undermounted with mechanical fasteners and silicone, and the cooktop or range gets set and leveled. Backsplash tile goes in next if it is part of the scope, followed by final plumbing hookups, toe-kick installation, and a full operational check of every drawer, door, and soft-close mechanism. You walk the kitchen with our lead installer and we do not call the job done until you sign off.
The choices you will actually make when ordering cabinets and countertops
Most websites give you a blur of brands. Here are the real decisions, what they cost, and who each option is right for.
- Cabinet construction: stock, semi-custom, or full custom. Stock boxes come in fixed widths and limited door styles and land at the low end of the price range. Semi-custom, what we install most often in Orangetree, lets you modify depths, add roll-out shelves, and choose from a wide door catalog without the lead time or expense of full custom. Full custom is milled to your specific dimensions and finish, best for odd angles or a very specific look, and it adds 4 to 8 weeks and a noticeable cost increase.
- Door material: solid wood, plywood with veneer, or thermofoil. Solid hardwood doors feel substantial and can be refinished, but they expand and contract with Florida humidity cycles. Plywood with a real wood veneer is more stable and costs a bit less. Thermofoil, a PVC-based wrap over MDF, resists moisture extremely well and cleans easily, a strong choice in kitchens that get heavy daily use.
- Countertop surface: quartz, granite, quartzite, or solid surface. Engineered quartz needs no sealing, resists staining, and has the most uniform color consistency. Natural granite costs less on average but requires periodic sealing and brings one-of-a-kind veining. Quartzite, a natural stone harder than granite, handles heat impressively well. Solid surface like Corian can be shaped into integrated sinks and coved backsplashes with no seams.
- Edge profile and sink mounting. An eased or pencil edge is standard and clean. Ogee or waterfall edges add fabrication time and cost. Undermount sinks sit below the slab and make wiping debris into the sink effortless. A flush-mount or drop-in sink costs less to cut and set.
We bring physical samples from Cambria, KraftMaid, and other supplier lines to your Orangetree home so you see color and finish under your own lighting. That step alone prevents half the reorder mistakes we see from online-only selections.
What cabinets and countertops cost in Orangetree, FL
A full cabinet and countertop replacement in Orangetree lands between $14,000 and $45,000. Here is what pushes a project toward one end of that range or the other.
The footprint is the biggest driver. A 10-by-10 galley kitchen uses fewer linear feet of cabinetry and a smaller slab than a 200-square-foot L-shaped kitchen with an island. Then comes material grade. Stock cabinets with a standard laminate countertop sit at the entry point. Semi-custom cabinets with a Level 1 quartz tighten the middle of the range. Full custom hardwood cabinets with a quartzite slab and a mitered waterfall edge on the island push toward the upper end. Plumbing and electrical changes add real money: moving a sink drain 4 feet or adding a dedicated circuit for an induction cooktop requires rough-in work and permit time, both billable. Finally, the condition of the subfloor and walls matters. In homes from the late 1980s or 1990s, we sometimes open a wall and find termite damage or old citrus-era moisture intrusion behind the sink base, and that gets fixed before a single cabinet hangs.
Every estimate comes to you as a written line-item quote. It breaks out materials, labor, any required trade permits, and what is included versus what is an optional upgrade. There is no change order unless you ask for one. This approach, upfront pricing with no surprises, is how we earn trust on a project you will live with for decades.
What Orangetree homes specifically do to a cabinet and countertop job
Orangetree was built on former citrus-grove land in phases from roughly 1988 through 2005, which means two things for a kitchen renovation. First, the original drainage infrastructure, old subsurface tile lines from the grove era, still sits beneath many lots. We have opened walls during cabinet demolition and found evidence of past moisture migration that traced back to those buried drainage remnants. Before we install anything, we verify that the subfloor and sill plates are sound, because cabinetry mounted to a compromised substrate fails within a few Florida rainy seasons.
Second, homes permitted before the 1992 post-Andrew code rewrite live in a different regulatory world than the ones built after. A kitchen that adds electrical circuits, moves a gas line, or changes the window opening in a pre-1993 Orangetree home often triggers a full wind-load compliance review as part of the permit process. This is not a bureaucratic delay we complain about. It is a safety measure that protects your home during the next storm. We factor that review time into your project calendar from the start so you are never surprised by a red tag or a stop-work order.
The relative isolation of Orangetree in eastern Collier County also means material runs take longer. There is no stone yard or cabinet distributor around the corner. We schedule deliveries a day ahead of when the install crew needs them, which keeps the job moving without anyone waiting on a truck stuck in I-75 traffic out of Fort Myers.
For homeowners who are already reconfiguring the kitchen, this is also a logical moment to consider a Tub-to-Shower Conversion in Orangetree in a nearby bathroom, since the construction team is already on site and the dust containment is already set up. Others planning a broader scope may fold the cabinet work into a full Kitchen Remodeling in Orangetree.
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Frequently asked - cabinets and countertops in Orangetree
Most kitchens finish in 2 to 4 weeks once demolition begins. The cabinet lead time from the manufacturer is the variable that determines whether you land at 2 weeks or 4. The on-site work, demo, rough prep, cabinet install, template wait, and slab setting, is typically 10 to 14 working days spread across that window. We give you a day-by-day calendar before a single tool comes off the truck, and the timeline accounts for the Collier County permitting window on your specific home’s build year.
If the job is a same-footprint cabinet swap with no plumbing, electrical, or structural changes, it often falls under a finish-only scope that does not require a building permit. The moment you move a sink, add an outlet, or alter a soffit, the permit triggers. In Orangetree, where many homes sit right on the pre- and post-Andrew code boundary, we pull the permit when there is any ambiguity because an unpermitted kitchen can stall a home sale years later. Our estimate includes the permit line item if one is required, and our Kitchen Remodeling crew handles the full submittal.
Not unless you ask us to add something that was not in the original scope. We write a fixed-price, line-item quote. The only exception is when demolition uncovers a condition nobody could have seen, like rotted subfloor under a dishwasher that has been leaking for years. When that happens, we show you photos, give you a specific fix price, and you decide before we proceed. No one likes change orders, least of all us.
You can, but it costs more in the long run and adds complexity. Countertop templating requires the cabinets to be set at final height and level. If you install cabinets now and wait six months, the templater still has to come out then, and you pay a second mobilization charge. Scheduling both together also means the undermount sink and cooktop get set correctly the first time. Most homeowners in Orangetree batch the two, and if the budget is the hold-up, our 0% financing for 18 months spreads the full project cost without interest.
The cabinet manufacturer’s warranty covers defects in materials and workmanship, typically for a limited lifetime on semi-custom and custom lines. The stone fabricator warranties the countertop seams and mounting. On top of those, every Groundwork Construction Co. installation is backed by our 730-Day Done Right Promise: if it is not done right, we make it right. That covers our workmanship for two full years, one of the longest guarantees in the residential construction space, and it is in writing.
Free estimate for cabinets and countertops in Orangetree
Call (844) 638-7249 to schedule a free on-site estimate. We come to your home, take real measurements, walk you through samples from KraftMaid, Cambria, and our other supplier partners, and hand you a written quote that spells out every line item. There is zero pressure, just straight answers from someone who builds kitchens for a living. Background-checked, uniformed crew, backed by the 730-Day Done Right Promise, built to last, backed in writing.
Written by Derek Hollenbeck, Owner at Groundwork Construction Co., serving Orangetree with transparent pricing and full-scope kitchen construction.