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Degreased before anything else
Doors are cleaned of cooking grease first, because paint over grease lifts at the handles within a year.
Cabinet refinishing
Cabinet painting in Louisville is mostly preparation, and the finish fails or holds depending on how much of it was done.
Cabinet painting in Louisville covers taking the doors and drawer fronts off, degreasing, sanding, priming and spraying them flat in the shop, then painting the boxes and face frames in place with the room masked.
The grain does not disappear on open-grained wood. Oak painted white still reads as oak up close, and filling the grain to get a smooth slab look is extra work that has to be quoted for.
Doors are cleaned of cooking grease first, because paint over grease lifts at the handles within a year.
Fronts are finished flat in the shop, so there are no brush marks and no runs down a stile.
The primer is chosen for what is underneath, since bare oak, old varnish and thermofoil each need a different one.
Each stage is signed off before the next one starts.
We measure the room itself rather than working from the plan, because walls are rarely square and the plan is rarely what got built. Every opening gets checked.
You get a layout and a written estimate broken down by stage, so you can see what the doors cost against the boxes against the install. Free, nothing to sign.
Cabinetry is built to the measurements we took, in the wood, door style and finish you picked. Lead time depends on the scope and we tell you before you commit.
Scribed to the walls, levelled, and fixed properly. Hardware adjusted so every door and drawer sits straight before we leave.
Grease removal is the step that decides whether the finish lasts.
Anyone who wants a color the wood cannot give them. Stain works within the range of the timber, so if you want an off-white kitchen or a deep green one, paint is the only route that does not involve new doors.
It also rescues mixed material. Where some fronts are hardwood and others are a different species or a panel product, paint puts everything on the same footing.
Doors come off, get labeled, and go back to the shop. They are degreased, sanded, primed with a product chosen for what is underneath, then sprayed and left to cure properly before handling.
Boxes and frames are done in place behind masking. Everything is rehung and adjusted at the end, and the finish wants a few weeks of gentle use before it reaches full hardness.
Nationally, painting runs about $1,200 to $7,000, most commonly $1,500 to $5,000. That puts it near refinishing, which runs $2,000 to $4,500, and well under refacing at $4,000 to $9,500.
Door count and condition drive it. Grain filling for a smooth finish, and stripping fronts that have been painted badly once already, both add real time.
Color choice does not change the price, with one exception. Very deep colors and pure whites both take more coats to cover evenly than a mid tone does, and that shows up as shop time rather than as material.
If the wood underneath is worth showing, covering it is a shame and cabinet refinishing in Louisville keeps it visible. Where new work has to sit alongside existing woodwork, cabinet staining & color matching is the job.
Paint will not change a door profile you dislike. While the kitchen is apart, pull-out shelves for cabinets in Louisville are easy to add, and we work across the metro including cabinets in Lyndon.
Get a free written estimate and we will look at your Louisville cabinet doors before quoting.
On open-grained wood like oak, yes. Painted white oak still reads as oak up close. Filling the grain for a smooth slab look is possible and it is extra work that gets quoted separately.
The kitchen is usable straight away and the finish reaches full hardness over a few weeks. Go gently on the doors during that time.
Sometimes, with the right primer, and it is less reliable than painting wood. Where the thermofoil is already lifting, new doors are the honest answer.
Almost always because the doors were not degreased before sanding. Kitchen doors carry cooking grease and paint will not stick to it.
We stay inside about 20 miles of Louisville, close enough to measure, template and install without the schedule slipping. These are the areas we cover most often.
Tell us the room and what you want out of it. You get a written estimate broken down by stage, free, with nothing to sign.