Kitchen Options, Inc. of New England, known as Kitchen Options and K.O.N.E., was founded by Ray Lentine. Ray’s experience with refacing started back in 1986, when he witnessed the transformation of his Mother’s kitchen. His Mother had several estimates for a complete ripout that were in the mid to upper teens. Ray’s brother suggested looking into something that none of the oher Lentines had ever heard of: Kitchen Cabinet Refacing. The estimate came to just under $6000. Mrs. Lentine bought.

This was 1986. She sold her house and moved to Florida in 2000. The refaced kitchen, 14 years later, looked like the day it was installed. The house was on the market for just a few days.

Also in 1986 Ray became The Marketing and Sales Director for a National Franchise called “Mr. Build.” This was a franchise that took existing contractors and gave them a name that all homeowners recognized. The premise was ill conceived. The franchisor sold a lot of franchises, but the contractor franchisee was still missing an important ingredient to make them successful. They had a “name,” but owning a franchise did not make them businessmen/women. Most of the franchises lasted for just a few years.

The two years with Mr. Build introduced Ray to literally all types of businesses within the home building/home remodeling industry. Not only did he learn the inner business workings of everything from plumbing to electrical, from framing a house to finish carpentry, from ripping out kitchens to installing alarm systems and not to mention kitchen refacing. (Just a couple months AFTER his mother had had her kitchen refaced.)

Ray stayed with franchising (Children’s Orchard and Matco Tools) till 1994. It was then he joined Sears Home Central and became the Sales Manager for Sears Kitchens for Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. From 1996 to 2004 his office averaged just over 1000 refaced kitchens per year. This experience made Ray one of the countries most knowledgeable kitchen and cabinet refacing experts.

Things changed when K-Mart bought Sears. Ray will not allow anything negative to be written here about a company that gave him his beginnings in a fascinating business. But policies changed and it was time for Ray to strike out on his own.

Today the Kitchen Options Corporation is one of the largest kitchen cabinet refacing companies in the Northeast. It’s headquarters is located in Oxford, Massachusetts. Being that Kitchen Options is a refacing company, there are no showrooms. Our showroom is your home. We bring everything to your home so you can see all of the doors and counter samples in the light of your own kitchen.

We have sales representatives in Southeastern Massachusetts to cover the South Shore and Cape Cod and other Massachusetts sales reps are in Allston, Uxbridge (2) and Danvers. Our Rhode Island reps are in Saunderstown and Warwick. Connecticut has representatives in Somers that also covers Western Massachusetts. The Oxford Office, which is just 6 miles from the Connecticut border off Rte 395 and minutes from Greater Worcester can send representatives to all of Eastern Connecticut and Central Massachusetts.

Kitchen Options can be seen at all of the home shows in Boston, Springfield, Worcester, Providence, Hartford and Hyannis. Almost all of the larger country fairs are attended with a 20’ Kitchen Options booth. There are a few home shows in the fall, but most take place from late January through early April. The first country fair of the year (July), attended by Kitchen Options, is the Barnstable County Fair in Falmouth, Massachusetts.. There are only a few Massachusetts fairs, but eastern and central Connecticut has many - the biggest being Brooklyn, Woodstock and Durham. There are two large fairs in Rhode Island: Cumberlandfest and the Washington County Fair. There are many other events we attend and this website will give you our schedule.

Finally, Ray has been the host of a live radio call-in show since 1990. It first started on a small station in Marlboro, but since 2006 “The Ray Lentine Show” was heard on WBIX THE Business Station in Boston. Ray and his wife adopted two girls and they are now both 5 years old. Time with the family and the success of Kitchen Options has, with some regret, forced Ray to make a “time” decision. The show came out third. (Actually 4th. Ray is also a professional freshwater bass fisherman.) Ray’s show was about the business of owning a home.