Cabinet painting and refinishing across Tampa Bay

A full kitchen spray refinish typically runs $3,500 to $7,500 depending on cabinet count and door style, versus $12,000 to $25,000 or more for full cabinet replacement with comparable quality boxes. Refinishing makes the most sense when the boxes and doors are still structurally sound, since you're paying for finish quality, not new carpentry. We'll tell you honestly if your cabinets are better candidates for replacement instead.

Doors and drawer fronts get sprayed in a controlled setup away from kitchen dust and airflow, since a real spray finish needs a clean, temperature-stable environment to lay flat without dust nibs. Cabinet boxes stay in place and get hand-finished with a matched coating system. This combination gets you a factory-smooth finish on the parts you touch most without emptying your entire kitchen for a week.

A proper cabinet-grade coating system, applied after real degreasing and sanding, holds up to daily opening, closing, and the occasional bump the same way factory-finished cabinets do. The failure point for most bad refinishing jobs isn't the paint, it's skipped degreasing, since Florida kitchen grease film left under fresh paint causes peeling and chipping within months no matter how good the topcoat is.

Yes, a full color change is one of the most common reasons homeowners refinish instead of replace. Darker cabinets going lighter usually need an extra coat of primer to fully block the old color from showing through, which we account for in the quote. We'll walk you through sheen options too, since a satin or semi-gloss holds up to kitchen use better than a flat finish.

Doors and drawers typically come off for 5 to 7 business days while they're sprayed and cured in the shop, and you can use the kitchen with open cabinet boxes during that window, just without doors. Full cure hardness for daily handling takes another week or so after reinstall, so we ask you to go easy on slamming doors and drawers during that early period.