Cabinet refinishing that reads as factory millwork
A fraction of the cost of new cabinets. Doors and drawers come off and get sprayed flat, boxes are masked in place, and every face gets the three-pass millwork standard.
Cabinet Refinishing
Refinishing costs a fraction of replacing, and done properly nobody who did not watch it happen can tell which one you paid for. Done badly it is obvious from the doorway forever, which is why this is the service where preparation and outcome are most tightly linked.
Cabinet doors are millwork. That means they get Level 3 or Level 4 preparation as a matter of course, not as an upgrade line on a proposal.
Step 01
Doors off, hardware bagged, boxes masked
Every door and drawer front comes off and gets labeled so it goes back on the opening it came from. Hinges, pulls and knobs come off and get bagged by opening rather than thrown in one tub, because a kitchen with mixed hardware never quite closes right afterwards.
The boxes stay where they are and get masked in place, floor to ceiling, with the range hood bagged and the counters covered.
- Doors and drawers labeled to their own openings
- Hardware removed and bagged per opening
- Boxes masked in place, floor to ceiling
- Kitchen usable between coats
Step 02
Degrease, sand, bonding primer
A kitchen cabinet has years of cooking grease in the finish, particularly around the pulls and above the range. Paint over that and it fails at exactly the points people touch. So it gets degreased first, then sanded, then a bonding primer that is chosen for the substrate rather than for the price.
Then the light comes out. Three passes across every face and every edge, sanding the high spots and filling the low ones each time.
- Degreased before anything else happens
- Sanded and bonding-primed for the substrate
- Three passes with a light on every face
- Grain filled where the door is meant to read smooth
Step 03
Sprayed flat, and put back properly
Doors and fronts are sprayed lying flat, which is the only way to get a film that levels out with no brush marks and no sag along a bottom rail. Then they get time to cure properly before anybody stacks or hangs them.
Everything goes back exactly where it came from, hinges get adjusted so the gaps are even again, and the doors close the way they did before we arrived.
- Sprayed flat for a level film with no brush marks
- Cured before stacking, not just dry to the touch
- Hinges adjusted so door gaps are even
- Two-tone and island accent colors
Before you sign
What your written scope covers
Same document on every job. A very clear scope of work ensures you know exactly what you are getting, and there is more on how we put one together over on our standard.
Get it in writing- Door and drawer count, and what stays as it is
- Substrate identified, and the primer chosen for it
- Preparation level per face, Level 3 or Level 4
- Product, sheen and number of coats
- How long the kitchen is out of full use
Often booked together
While we are already at the house
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and stairwells. Every piece of millwork prepped to PCA Level 3 or 4, every wall quoted at the level it can genuinely reach, and all of it written down before we start.
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