Cabinet refinishing
Solid post-war cabinet boxes under a finish that has dated. Refinishing keeps the carcasses and changes everything you actually see.
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Cabinet painting, interior painting and front door finishing in Brown Deer.
Post-war ranches and split-levels, where refinishing almost always beats replacing on the numbers. Your local painter for cabinet and interior painting that stops short of a renovation.
Brown Deer sits directly north-west of us, and much of it went up in the same post-war decades that built Glendale — brick and clapboard ranches, split-levels, three-bedroom Cape Cods, mostly on flat, regular lots with attached garages.
It is sensible housing, and it responds well to sensible work. The boxes in a 1960s kitchen are frequently in better structural condition than a modern flat-pack replacement would be, and the reason the kitchen looks tired is almost always the finish and the hardware rather than the cabinetry underneath.
The other recurring jobs here are hollow-core interior doors that have never been anything but builder-grade, ceilings carrying dated texture, and settlement cracks that have been filled once already and come back. None of it is glamorous and all of it changes how a house feels.
Ten minutes from the shop
Brown Deer is close enough that small jobs stay viable — a single door, one ceiling, a patch of damaged drywall. Those are the jobs that quietly get declined by crews traveling in from the far side of the county.
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Straight talk
Most Brown Deer kitchens do not need the expensive finish.
We offer a Renner Aquaris 2K catalyzed finish as an upgrade, and on a good number of Brown Deer kitchens we will tell you not to buy it. A properly prepared and sprayed standard enamel is genuinely hard-wearing, and on a household that cooks normally and wipes rather than scrubs, the extra hardness is margin you will never actually spend.
Where it does earn its money is the kitchen that takes a beating — a young family, a hard-used drawer bank, the doors either side of the range. If that is your kitchen, we will say so just as plainly.
What matters far more on either spec is the preparation. Degreasing, deglossing and the right bonding primer decide whether a cabinet finish is still intact in year five. That is the part nobody can see when it is done right, and the part that is unmistakable when it is skipped.
Questions
Common questions in Brown Deer
Is it worth refinishing a 1960s kitchen or should we replace it?
Take the doors off and look at the boxes. If the carcasses are solid, square and dry, refinishing costs a fraction of replacement and keeps a layout that already works. If the boxes are water-damaged at the sink run or the frames have moved, we will tell you that refinishing is putting a good finish on a bad problem.
Can hollow-core doors be made to look better, or do they need replacing?
Sprayed, they look considerably better than they do brushed — the flat faces are exactly the surface that shows brush marks worst. What spraying cannot do is make a hollow-core door feel solid. If you want the weight, that is a replacement, and then it is worth spraying the new ones before they go on the hinges.
Our ceiling texture has been patched before and the repair still shows. Why?
Almost always because the texture was matched by eye rather than by sample, or the patch was flat-finished and then textured over without feathering the compound far enough out. Matching old texture is most of the work and the reason a repair either disappears or announces itself.
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Cabinet painting and front door finishing in Brown Deer.
Tell us what needs doing — or email a photo — and we’ll tell you what is involved. The walkthrough and the written estimate are free.
(414) 436-1464