A sprayed finish, not a brushed one
Doors and drawer fronts come to the shop and get sprayed lying flat in a booth. Frames are masked and sprayed in your kitchen. No roller texture and no brush marks in the window light.
What painting cabinets actually involves
Almost all of the work happens before any color goes on. Doors come off and get labeled, hardware comes off into bags marked by door, and everything gets degreased. Kitchen cabinets carry years of cooking grease, and paint over grease peels off in sheets the first time a fingernail catches it. Then it gets sanded, the oak grain gets filled if you want a smooth painted look, and it gets a bonding primer.
Doors get sprayed lying flat in our booth and dry on racks, which is the only way to get a finish with no runs and no brush marks. Frames get sprayed in place behind plastic sheeting with a fan pulling air out a window, so the dust and the overspray stay in that one room. Your doors are gone about a week and the kitchen works the whole time.
- Doors and drawer fronts sprayed flat in our booth
- Hardware bagged and labeled door by door
- Degreased, sanded and primed before any color
- Oak grain filled when you want a smooth finish
- Frames masked and sprayed in the kitchen
What paint will and will not fix
Paint is the cheapest way to change how a kitchen reads, and on a 2000s builder kitchen with sound oak boxes it is often the smartest money in the house. A painted door in white or greige with new hardware can take ten years off a room for a fraction of what new boxes cost, and it takes days rather than weeks.
What it cannot do is change a door style. A raised panel oak door painted white is still a raised panel oak door, and the arch across the top still says 2003. Thermofoil is the other one we turn down. That white film peels where it gets hot beside an oven and paint will not hold on it. In both cases new doors on your existing boxes is the better answer, and we would rather sell you that than a finish that fails in a year.
Thinking about cabinet painting?
Book a free design visit and we will measure the room.
Get a fixed quote on cabinet painting
About a week for a normal kitchen. We take them on a Monday and hang them back the following week. You keep using the kitchen while they are at the shop.
A sprayed conversion finish is far harder than wall paint and it holds up to daily use. Anything chips if you swing a cast iron pan into it, so touch up paint comes with the job.
No. The film peels and nothing holds on it for long. We will price new doors on your existing boxes instead, which usually costs less than you expect.
Yes, and a painted island against an off white or stained perimeter is one of the most common things we do. Both get sprayed the same week so the colors are chosen together.
Yes. New knobs and pulls go on when the doors come back. If you are moving from knobs to pulls, the old holes get filled and sanded before the finish goes on rather than after.
That works, and a painted upper over a stained base is a real look rather than a compromise. We spray both anyway, so the only question is which color goes where.
Book a free design visit.
Send a photo of the room and rough measurements. We quote after we see it in person.
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