Cabinet Painting in Highland Park, TX
A sprayed, factory-smooth finish on the custom cabinetry you already have. We refresh dated painted cabinets and take dark traditional kitchens lighter. No brush marks, no tear-out, at a fraction of what new cabinetry costs. Serving Highland Park and the Park Cities across DFW.
We Are Fully insured.
Our Standards
Sprayed, not brushed.
Doors come off and get labeled.
A hard, washable finish.
Free, written estimates.
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Refinishing Cabinetry in an Older Highland Park Home
The cabinetry in a Highland Park kitchen is usually custom, often beaded inset, and replacing it runs deep into five and six figures. If the boxes and doors are solid wood and sound, and in these homes they usually are, a sprayed repaint gets you a new-looking kitchen for a fraction of that. We will be straight on the exception: if the doors are delaminating particleboard, paint will not fix the substrate, and we will tell you replacing is the better money.
Two jobs come up most here. The first is refreshing cabinetry that was painted years ago - a dated cream, almond, or glazed white - back to a clean, current color. The second is taking a dark, traditional stained kitchen lighter. On stained wood we prep and prime for a real bond and fill the grain where it would otherwise telegraph through the finish.
On color, Highland Park stays classic. Warm and creamy whites, soft greige, a soft green, and the look that turns up over and over in these kitchens - a lighter perimeter with a navy or blue painted island, balanced by walnut or wood accents and aged brass or matte-black hardware. We sample the color and sheen on a real door before the whole kitchen is committed.
The finish matters as much as the color. We spray a hard, washable urethane that stands up to daily kitchen life, and we keep the prep careful on older painted cabinetry. Get the color and the hardware right and the kitchen reads redone, not repainted.
What We Refinish in a Highland Park Home
Cabinetry runs all through a home this size, and most of it is custom. If it is built of wood, we can refinish it. Here is what we handle.
Kitchen cabinets
The main event, and in these homes it is usually custom - often beaded inset and face-frame cabinetry with glass-front uppers. Doors and drawers come off and get sprayed to a smooth, hard finish that takes daily kitchen use, so the whole room reads new without moving a box.
Islands and two-tone
The look that shows up again and again here is a lighter perimeter with a navy or blue painted island as the focal point, balanced by walnut or wood accents. We paint the island a deeper color and swap the hardware to aged brass or matte black to finish it.
Butler's pantries, bars, and built-ins
The butler's pantry, the wet bar, the library and study built-ins, the mudroom lockers. We refinish them to match or accent the kitchen, so the cabinetry reads as one hand throughout the home.
Bathroom vanities
Primary, guest, and powder-room vanities, common in the larger baths of an established home. The same sprayed finish in a moisture-resistant system that holds up to steam and daily use, in a color that ties back to the rest of the house.
How We Get a Factory-Smooth Finish
A good cabinet finish is sprayed, not brushed, and it is mostly about the prep. Here is the order we work in.
Doors and drawers come off
We remove and label every door and drawer front so each goes back exactly where it came from, and we spray them in a controlled space rather than in the middle of your kitchen.
Clean, sand, and prep
We degrease and degloss, scuff-sand for a real bond, and fill the grain on open-grain wood so it does not ghost through. On older painted cabinetry we keep the prep careful and contained.
Prime, then spray the finish
We prime with a bonding primer, then lay down thin, even coats of a hard cabinet-grade urethane finish. Sprayed coats are what give you the smooth, no-brush-mark look that holds up to a working kitchen.
Reinstall and set the hardware
We rehang the doors, reset the drawers, and install your hardware - new brass or matte black if you are updating it - then walk the whole kitchen with you before we leave.
We Know Highland Park Kitchens
We refinish cabinets in homes across Highland Park - the streets off Beverly Drive and Armstrong Parkway, the houses near Highland Park Village and Preston Road, and the established homes throughout the Park Cities. Custom, traditional kitchens, butler's pantries, and built-ins, in homes held to a high bar.
We are a Fort Worth-based painting company, and we bring the same craftsmanship east to the Park Cities. These are working kitchens in busy households, so we set up our spray space cleanly, coordinate with your designer on color and hardware, and keep one crew on it from the first door we pull to the last one we hang.
Highland Park and the Park Cities
We are based off Cordova Avenue in southwest Fort Worth and refinish cabinets throughout Highland Park and the towns around it.
The Park Cities and nearby
University Park, Preston Hollow, and the surrounding Dallas neighborhoods.
Across the metroplex
Fort Worth and the rest of DFW. In Highland Park or nearby? Just ask.
Get Your Cabinet Painting Estimate
Tell us what you are working with - kitchen, vanities, or built-ins - and we will come look at the cabinetry, check the boxes and doors, and talk color and hardware. No pressure and no hard sell.
Cabinet Painting Questions
Do you take the doors off, or paint them in place?
The doors and drawer fronts come off and get labeled, so each goes back exactly where it started. We spray them in a controlled space and mask and spray the boxes on-site. You get a smooth, even finish with no brush marks, and nothing ends up on the wrong cabinet.
How durable is a painted cabinet finish?
It holds up to daily kitchen life because we spray a hard, washable cabinet-grade urethane in thin coats, not wall paint rolled onto a door. The other half is prep: degreasing, deglossing, and sanding for a real bond is what keeps the finish from chipping at the edges.
Can you refresh cabinets that are already painted?
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do here. We degloss, repair, prep, and respray cabinetry that was painted years ago — a dated cream, almond, or glazed white — back to a clean, current color and a smooth finish.
Can you take dark stained traditional cabinets to a lighter color?
Yes. We prep and prime stained wood for a real bond, fill the grain where it would otherwise show through, and spray it to a clean lighter color. A dark, traditional kitchen can come current without tearing out good cabinetry.
Should I paint my cabinets or replace them?
If the boxes and doors are solid wood and in good shape, which most Highland Park custom kitchens are, painting gets you a new look for a fraction of replacing custom cabinetry. If the doors are delaminating particleboard, paint will not fix the substrate, and we will tell you replacing is the smarter spend.
What cabinet colors are homeowners choosing now?
Classic. Warm and creamy whites, soft greige, and soft greens, with the recurring Highland Park look of a lighter perimeter and a navy or blue painted island, finished with brass or matte-black hardware. We sample the color and sheen on a real door first, since it reads differently in your kitchen's light.
Can you refinish butler's pantries, bars, built-ins, and vanities too?
Yes. The butler's pantry, wet bar, library and study built-ins, mudroom lockers, and bath vanities all take the same sprayed finish, and we match them to the kitchen so the cabinetry reads as one hand throughout the home.
Which areas do you serve around Highland Park?
Highland Park and the surrounding Park Cities — University Park and Preston Hollow — plus the rest of Dallas and back across to Fort Worth and DFW. If you are nearby and do not see your area, just ask.
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