- Kitchen cabinet painting
- Kitchen cabinet refinishing
- Kitchen cabinet refacing
The question is, what is the difference between these three services? Lots of times when people see their kitchen dated, started to fade, or even like to remodel it to a different look, they look for the nearest service company by searching on Google or Facebook, so it all depends on the type of service they look for. They search for cabinet painting, refinishing, or refacing, assuming all the same, but in reality it is not.
The kitchen cabinet painting service is when we change the colour of an old kitchen cabinet from a stain-grade or paint-grade kitchen to a new solid colour. Keeping the same doors and cabinets all the same, the process of doing kitchen cabinet painting starts by removing the doors and parts from the kitchen so we can work on them in our shop, more in a controlled environment. The remaining parts, like side gables and trim, we spray on site after we prep the kitchen area for spraying.
One of the most important steps that we start with is degreasing the doors and panels. It’s very important to do so; otherwise, it will affect and contaminate any product we will use after, and the primer won’t stick properly. The second step after degreasing is dent and scratch repairs before we start sanding. Sand all the doors and panels to make sure it’s all ready for priming.
Spray primer coats, making sure doors are sealed properly with the right type of primer.
After we primer, we sand again, making sure doors are smooth and clean, ready for the paint top coat. The final step for the kitchen cabinet painting is to spray the final colour top coat; normally we spray two wet coats to achieve six mills of wet paint.
Doors have to dry for a full day before we can wrap and install.
We deliver doors to the site, install them with handles, and do all adjustments for all doors and drawers. The final result is making an old, dated kitchen look new.
Kitchen cabinet refinishing is a service we offer for painted kitchens or stained wood kitchens. If a customer has a stained wood kitchen and the stain colour is not to his/her liking or the kitchen doors are fading and peeling off, it’s time to refinish.
The first option is to do a full dip and strip for the whole entire kitchen cabinet doors and panels.
We strip the wood to bare wood, repair dents and scratches, wash it again, sand all door parts, stain wood again, apply sealer coats, and finally apply clear top coats. This process is the most expensive of the kitchen refinishing services because it requires lots of labor hours and materials.
The second option is we offer our customers a colour shift or colour toning service. If the kitchen wood stained doors and panels are in very good condition but the customer like to darken the colour, we can offer him this service. The process is we will clean, scuff the wood doors and parts, then spray the kitchen a clear tinted top coat; this will tone the stain colour for the kitchen.
The third option is very similar to kitchen cabinet painting, in which we shift the wood-stained kitchen to a solid-painted kitchen to modernize the overall kitchen. The process is exactly what we explained in the kitchen cabinet painting service.
Kitchen cabinet refacing service is different from refinishing and repainting. Refacing a kitchen cabinet is to replace all doors and drawer fronts with new ones. Sometimes customers are not only happy with the colour and look of their kitchen, but they are bored of the look of the door design they have and looking for a new design look. This is when we have to replace all doors and parts of the kitchen. Doors normally come unfinished with no paint or stain.
After we make new doors, we machine for hardware and start the process of finishing them, paint, or stain. Then we will finish the rest of the kitchen cabinets on site to match the new door colour. This process will give the customer a new look for his/her kitchen.
Why kitchen cabinet painting, refinishing, refacing?
The answer to this question all goes down to the budget. If we compare the numbers between any of the three services mentioned and building a brand new kitchen, the difference is huge.
Nowadays, a new custom-designed kitchen for a 10 x 20 area will cost anywhere between 25 and 40 thousand dollars; bigger kitchens with fancy islands and details can reach a price of 180 thousand dollars. When customers like to update the look and buy refinishing services, they are saving lots of money; it’s a fraction of the cost of a new kitchen. I
‘ll give an example if a new kitchen costs 40 thousand dollars to build compared to kitchen refinishing or kitchen repainting costing about 10 thousand dollars, or even kitchen refacing will cost about 15 thousand dollars for the same size kitchen. The bottom line is saving money and still achieving amazing results with Masters Wood Finishing.