Aurora Trusted Kitchen
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Kitchen finish samples on a pale honed quartz counter: a painted shaker door, stone offcuts, tile chips and a brass pull

Refacing, cabinets, countertops

Kitchen remodeling in Aurora, CO

Start with what stays. Say which parts of the kitchen should go, from the cabinet doors to the whole room, and the request goes to a kitchen remodeler who works in Aurora.

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Small kitchen remodel or full renovation: the scope sets the budget

The closest thing to a local benchmark is the Cost vs Value report from the Journal of Light Construction, which prices the same kitchen jobs in each market every year. Its minor remodel keeps the cabinet boxes and puts new shaker-style fronts on them, with new laminate counters, a new sink, new appliances and new flooring, in a 200-square-foot kitchen. Its major remodels replace the cabinets as well.

Journal of Light Construction and Zonda, Cost vs Value report, job cost. 2024 is the latest edition with a Denver figure; the 2025 edition reports the Mountain region. Opened September 25, 2026. Market figures, not a quote.
Scope Denver, 2024 Mountain, 2025
Minor remodel, midrange$25,898$28,490
Major remodel, midrange$79,702$81,538
Major remodel, upscale$154,027$159,439

Nearly all of the gap between the first two rows is what happens to the cabinets. Keeping the boxes brought the Denver job to about a third of the price of replacing them. For a line-by-line breakdown, read what a kitchen remodel costs in Aurora.

A small kitchen changes the arithmetic less than people hope, because most of the cost scales with length, not floor area. Fixr counts a kitchen under 150 square feet as having 16 to 25 linear feet of cabinets, against 25 to 30 for one up to 250 square feet, and HomeGuide puts countertop area at 20 to 30 square feet in a small kitchen and 30 to 40 in an average one. A small kitchen remodel in Aurora is cheaper, but it isn't proportionally cheaper, and a new range or sink costs the same in a small room as in a big one.

Five painted shaker cabinet door samples fanned out on a white quartz counter beside a brass knob
Door samples in five paint colors. The finish is one of the smaller lines in a budget.

Pick the scope before you meet a kitchen remodeler

Almost every decision in a remodel follows from one question: how much of the kitchen stays. Answer it first and the rest narrows quickly. These three scopes each keep something, and each has a page that explains what it replaces, what it costs and where it stops making sense.

Three checks usually settle it. Open the cabinet under the sink: a swollen or soft floor in there means the boxes are on their way out, and refacing them would be money spent on a failing frame. Ask whether anything needs to move, because a sink, range or wall in a new place means new cabinets at the least. Then look at the counters on their own. If the cabinets are fine and the laminate or tile is what dates the room, the countertop page is the one to read first.

Base cabinet boxes with their doors removed, and new painted shaker doors and drawer fronts stacked in front of them

Cabinet refacing

The layout works and the boxes are solid. Only the doors, drawer fronts and frames get replaced.

Cabinet refacing in Aurora
A new dovetailed drawer box on soft-close runners in an unfinished new base cabinet

New kitchen cabinets

The boxes themselves are failing or the layout is changing, so the cabinets come out and new ones go in.

Kitchen cabinets in Aurora

What a full kitchen renovation in Aurora replaces

When nothing stays, the drawing fills in: new boxes, new doors and drawer fronts, a new countertop and a new backsplash. The appliances are left out of it on purpose, because they are a separate decision and a newer fridge or range can stay through a full remodel.

A full renovation is also the only scope where the layout can change, and that is where the work reaches behind the walls. The City of Aurora's homeowner handbook says replacing cabinets, countertops, sinks and appliances usually needs no permit. Moving a sink, switching a stove from gas to electric, or installing a new range or exhaust hood does, and so does any work that changes the wiring or plumbing inside a wall.

Flooring is the other surface a full remodel tends to pull in. If the new cabinets sit on a different footprint from the old ones, the floor that was hidden under the old boxes shows, so decide about the floor at the same time as the layout.

What a full kitchen remodel changes
Cabinet boxes, doors and drawer fronts, the countertop and the backsplash.
What stays
The appliances, in this drawing.
The full scope as a drawing. No particular room is shown.

Aurora kitchens, by the decade the house was built

Half of Aurora's homes were built before 1985 and half after, according to the Census Bureau's latest five-year survey. A kitchen in a house at that midpoint is about forty years old if nobody has redone it.

The age of a house doesn't choose the scope for you. A 1970s kitchen that was redone in 2005 is a different job from a 1995 kitchen still wearing its original cabinets. What the date does tell you is which questions to ask first: what the cabinet boxes are built from, whether the countertop is the original one, and whether anyone has already opened the walls.

Close to two thirds of occupied homes in Aurora are lived in by their owners. If you rent, a remodel is your landlord's decision before it is anyone else's.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates, Aurora city, Colorado. Shares are computed from the published counts.
Aurora housingValue
Housing units150,242
Median year built1985
Built before 198037.8%
Built 1980 to 199934.2%
Built 2000 or later28.0%
Occupied homes lived in by the owner63.3%

Questions about kitchen remodeling in Aurora

  • What is the biggest expense in a kitchen remodel?

    Usually the cabinets. Bob Vila's kitchen remodel cost guide says cabinets and their hardware typically take about 40 percent of the budget. That is why the scope question comes first: a job that keeps the cabinet boxes takes the largest line out of the budget before anything else is decided.

  • Can I remodel my kitchen for $5,000?

    Not the whole kitchen, but one scope can fit. Fixr puts professional cabinet painting at $2,500 to $6,500 for an average kitchen, refacing the cabinets in a small kitchen at $4,400 to $6,875, and an average countertop replacement at $3,000. The three scope pages explain what each of those keeps and replaces.

  • Is $30,000 enough for a kitchen remodel?

    For a scope that keeps the cabinet boxes, the published figures say yes. Cost vs Value priced its minor kitchen remodel at $25,898 in Denver for 2024 and $28,490 across the Mountain region for 2025. For a job that replaces the cabinets it falls well short: the same report put a midrange major remodel at $79,702 in Denver. Houzz's 2025 kitchen study found a national median, as of mid-2024, of $20,000 for a minor remodel.

  • What is the typical cost to remodel a kitchen in Colorado?

    No published source gives a statewide or Aurora-only average. The closest local figure is Cost vs Value's Denver report: $25,898 for a minor midrange remodel, $79,702 for a major midrange one and $154,027 for a major upscale one, all for 2024. The guide to what a kitchen remodel costs in Aurora takes the budget apart line by line.

Sources

From a description to a quote

  1. Say what stays

    Tell us which parts of the kitchen you want gone and which you want to keep. Rough is fine, and photos help.

  2. One remodeler reads it

    Your request goes to a kitchen remodeler who works in Aurora and the Denver metro.

  3. You decide on the price

    Expect the room to be measured before there is a firm number. You owe nothing unless you accept a quote.

Describe the kitchen you have and the one you want

Two or three sentences is enough to start: the part that bothers you most, and anything you already know you want to keep.

Describe your kitchen

Tell us about the kitchen

It takes a few minutes, and sending it doesn't commit you to anything.

Kitchen remodel request

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