Kitchen Remodel Cost in Portland: What the Data Shows

The Remodeling 2025 Cost vs. Value Report (www.costvsvalue.com), the newest edition published, has no Portland figure. Its nearest dated figures are for its Pacific region, whose city list runs from Medford, Oregon to Seattle, Spokane and Kennewick in Washington, along with five California cities; Portland is not on it. Those figures are for three defined kitchen projects in one 200-square-foot kitchen, not for yours, so this page gives each one with what it includes. Every cost figure here is from that report.

Three kitchen projects in the Pacific region

Minor kitchen remodel, midrange. In a functional but dated 200-square-foot kitchen with 30 linear feet of cabinets and countertops, the cabinet boxes stay and the fronts are replaced with shaker-style wood doors and drawer fronts and new hardware. The range and refrigerator are replaced with energy-efficient models, and laminate countertops, a midpriced sink and faucet, resilient flooring and paint finish it. The report’s Pacific-region job cost is $29,728.

Major kitchen remodel, midrange. The same size of kitchen gets a functional new layout: 30 linear feet of semi-custom wood cabinets including a 3-by-5-foot island, laminate countertops, a double-tub stainless steel sink, an energy-efficient range with a vented hood, a built-in microwave, a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, custom lighting, resilient flooring and paint. The Pacific-region job cost is $86,480.

Major kitchen remodel, upscale. The same size of kitchen gets 30 linear feet of top-of-the-line custom cabinets with built-in sliding shelves, stone countertops with an imported ceramic or glass tile backsplash, a built-in refrigerator, a commercial-grade cooktop and vent hood, a wall oven, a built-in microwave, a high-end undermount sink with a water filtration system, new general and task lighting, and tile or wood-look flooring. The Pacific-region job cost is $171,950.

For context, the report’s national averages for the same three projects are $28,458, $82,793 and $164,104. The report also estimates how much of each project’s cost a sale of the house would recoup: in the Pacific region, 129.1% for the minor midrange project, 57.2% for the major midrange and 38.8% for the major upscale.

The minor project keeps the cabinet boxes and replaces the fronts, which is what cabinet refacing does on its own; the report’s project adds appliances, counters, flooring and paint. The major projects bring in new kitchen cabinets, and the countertop goes from laminate in the midrange projects to stone in the upscale one. Cabinet painting, which replaces nothing, is a smaller job than any of the three.

What these figures are, and what they are not

The publisher is plain about the limits: “The Cost vs. Value Report provides an accurate snapshot of the national housing market but it is less successful at accurately predicting an individual remodeling project for a particular address.” Each figure is the cost of one defined project in one 200-square-foot kitchen. We do not adjust the figures for Portland, average them with the national ones or turn them into a price per square foot, and you should not use them as a quote: the remodeler prices your kitchen after the free consultation. The full kitchen remodel, and how to check a remodeler before you hire, are on our page about kitchen remodeling in Portland.

Sales tax: Washington and Oregon

In Washington, the Department of Revenue treats constructing and improving new or existing buildings as retail services subject to sales tax when provided to consumers, and says the taxable amount includes labor, materials, permits and other fees, profit and subcontractor charges. Contractors collect it at the rate of the place where the work is done, on the full contract price. Oregon has no general sales tax. So a kitchen in Clark County carries sales tax on the whole contract and one in Oregon does not; our page on kitchen remodeling in Vancouver, WA gives the current Vancouver rate.

How this page was put together

The figures and project definitions were read from the report’s Pacific-region, national and project pages on October 12, 2026, and the 2025 edition was still the newest that day. The report is published once a year, and its terms allow its figures in running text only, so this page has no price table and no calculator. We publish no other kitchen prices: the other cost guides we read either forbid reuse, cover a different place or year, or contradict each other.

© 2025 Zonda Media, a Delaware Corporation. Complete data from the Remodeling 2025 Cost vs. Value Report can be downloaded free at www.costvsvalue.com.