Cabinet Painting in Daytona Beach

Is painting cabinets cheaper than replacing them?

By a wide margin. New cabinets mean buying the boxes, tearing the old ones out, and usually redoing the countertop and backsplash as well, because they rarely sit right on a new layout. Painting the cabinets you already have skips every part of that.

Refacing sits in between. It replaces the doors and drawer fronts and puts a veneer over the boxes, so it costs more than paint and less than new cabinets. It makes sense when the doors themselves are damaged or you want a different door style.

The test is the boxes. If they are solid and square and the doors still close properly, paint is the right answer. If they are swollen from a leak, sagging, or the layout does not work for how you cook, no finish will fix that and you are better off replacing them.

We will tell you which of those you have when we look at the kitchen, including when the answer is the one that does not get us the job. Same approach on every service we quote, which you can read about on the main site.

How long will your kitchen be out of action?

Days, not weeks. The doors and drawer fronts come off and get finished away from the room, so the kitchen stays usable for most of the job. You lose the cabinet doors, not the kitchen.

Expect the boxes taped off and the counters covered while the frames are being coated. Move everyday dishes and the coffee things out onto the counter before we start, because the shelves need to be empty and stay empty.

The finish also needs time to cure after it stops feeling tacky. We will tell you when you can load the shelves back up and when you can close the doors without the paint sticking to itself. Those are two different days, and rushing the second one is the most common way a good cabinet job gets ruined.

Will painted cabinets hold up to daily use?

They will when the prep was done and the right product went on. Doors around a stove carry a film of cooking grease that no paint will stick to, so every door gets degreased, then scuff sanded, then coated with a bonding primer before any color goes near it.

The finish coat matters just as much. Wall paint on a cabinet door stays soft and marks with a fingernail. We use a cabinet and trim enamel that dries hard, wipes clean, and takes a damp cloth over a splash without dulling.

The doors are sprayed rather than brushed. A sprayed door has no brush marks in it, which on a flat panel front is the difference between looking refinished and looking painted over. We use the same enamel on interior trim and doors.

What does the process involve?

Doors, drawer fronts and hardware come off first and get labeled, so every one goes back into the opening it came out of. Cabinets are rarely as identical as they look and a swapped door usually shows.

Everything is cleaned with a degreaser and then sanded. Gouges and chipped edges get filled. The boxes and face frames are masked off from the counters, walls and floor.

Then bonding primer, a sand between coats, and two finish coats. Doors go back on last with the hinges adjusted so they hang straight, and the hardware goes back on or is swapped for whatever you picked.

We walk it with you at the end and touch up anything you point at before the truck gets loaded. Other finished jobs are on our work page.

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