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Cabinet painting and refinishing

A kitchen with white painted upper cabinets and darker painted lower cabinets, with stainless steel appliances and a patterned tile backsplash.
  • Family-owned and operated
  • Free estimates, no obligation
  • Sherwin-Williams products
  • We leave the place as we found it

Kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, built-ins and vanities. Refinishing rather than replacing keeps the boxes you already have and changes the part you actually look at, and it is a fraction of the disruption of a remodel.

Why we take the doors away

Cabinets are the most looked-at surface in a kitchen, and they are looked at from a foot away. A brush leaves marks at that distance. So doors and drawer fronts are removed, labeled, carefully prepared, and then sprayed in a controlled setting before being reinstalled, which is how a cabinet ends up with a factory-like finish rather than a painted one.

The frames and boxes stay where they are and are prepped and finished in place. The doors are rehung on their own hinges, in their own openings, because they were labeled on the way off.

A run of raised-panel wall cabinets finished in cream with crown molding, against a sage-green kitchen wall.
Cream kitchen cabinetsEdwardsburg, MI

What that means for your kitchen

The kitchen stays usable. The doors are away for the part of the job that produces the dust and the smell, which is the part you would least want happening beside the fridge.

We will tell you at the estimate how long the doors will be off, based on how many there are and what condition they are in.

What affects the price

The number of doors and drawer fronts rather than the size of the room, the material they are made from, their current finish and condition, whether the boxes are being done as well, and the finish chosen. We use Sherwin-Williams products.

One-year satisfaction guarantee. Our painting work carries a one-year satisfaction guarantee.

A close view of painted kitchen wall cabinets with arched door panels and dark round knobs.
Arched-panel kitchen cabinetsMishawaka, IN

Common questions

How long does cabinet painting take?

Longer than a room, because the doors and drawer fronts leave the kitchen. They are removed, prepared and sprayed in a controlled setting, and they go back on when the finish has cured properly rather than when the schedule would prefer. You get a timeline with the estimate so you know how long the kitchen is in pieces.

Do you remove the doors and drawer fronts?

Yes. Every door and drawer front comes off, and the boxes are prepared and painted in place. Painting doors on their hinges is how you get runs at the edges and a hinge that is stuck to the frame, so it is not something we do.

Do you spray cabinet doors?

Yes, in a controlled setting away from the kitchen. That is what produces a factory-like finish rather than brush marks, and it is the main reason cabinet work is a different process from painting a wall.

Can oak cabinets be painted?

Yes. Oak has an open grain, so the question is whether you want that grain still visible through the finish or filled and smoothed first. Both are real options and they are different amounts of work. We will show you what each one looks like at the estimate rather than decide it for you.

What affects cabinet refinishing cost?

The number of doors and drawer fronts, the material and its condition, whether the grain is being filled, and whether anything has been painted before. A cabinet door that has already been painted twice takes preparation that a factory finish does not. Those are the things that decide the number, and they are found in person.

Ready for a free, no-obligation estimate?

Tell us what you need painted and we will come and look at it. Free, and there is nothing to sign.