Cabinet Painting

Cabinet painting is one of the most effective ways to add character to your space.

Painting your walls will set the overall tone of your home, but your cabinets can add another layer of depth and give it more character and personality.

You can also use bolder colors and textures for your cabinets than you can for walls, as using them throughout your home can be visually overwhelming. This can be matte black, bold navy, forest green, and so on.

Cabinet painting is also a great way to breathe new life into your home. Even the most well-designed spaces can get old after a while, and professional cabinet painting can instantly change up the look of your space dramatically.

This is especially so if your cabinet’s color is starting to fade or wear out.

While cabinets obviously take up less space than your walls and won’t be as impactful, cabinets are still one of the largest and most noticeable features as compared to the other elements of your home.

As such, if you’re trying to enhance or update your interior’s aesthetics, besides painting your walls, bathroom and kitchen cabinet painting are going to be your next best options.

Also, like with interior and exterior painting, you’ll get a refreshed, updated space without having to fork out too much. To make a big, noticeable impact, besides painting, most other projects like bathroom remodeling, siding replacement, and home renovation are going to put a large hole in your pocket.

Painting is undoubtedly the most cost-effective way to make a serious impact on your aesthetics, so it’s perfect for those looking for a breath of fresh air in their space without actually making any expensive structural changes.

The thing is, painting kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities is much harder than painting walls.

Even normal wall painting is already a tedious task that requires practice to get the right techniques. Cabinet painting is a different beast, requiring even more patience, more steps, harder techniques, and you’ll have a much smaller margin for error.

When you’re painting kitchen cabinets, there’s going to be a layer of grease and grime, as cooking releases grease, steam, and smoke. When these settle onto your cabinet and you try to paint over them, your paint may bubble or not stick at all, or eventually peel off.

For your bathroom vanities, there are even more substances — soap, toothpaste, hairspray, and water marks will over time lead to a waxy residue that, like grease and grime, either doesn’t let your paint adhere properly or causes it to eventually chip off.

Before you even start painting, you need to degrease the surface. Otherwise, all your efforts will be wasted.

And that’s not all. After the degreasing, you need to sand them to roughen the surface, or your primer and paint won’t bond properly. This sanding also needs to be done multiple times to ensure the paint adheres properly and will stay on for the long term.

Then, during the painting itself, as compared to painting walls, there are more panels and grooves, and those are harder to paint. Achieving a smooth finish is going to be harder than with walls.

If you opt for spraying instead of painting, which is easier, you’ll need to ensure proper ventilation, and you need to cover up the surroundings to prevent your spray paint from getting on them. You also need to ensure proper ventilation.

Even with spraying though, which is easier, you still need to control the distance carefully and make sure to spray evenly.

In addition, you’re going to need to remove your cabinet doors and drawers, paint them and the rest of your cabinet separately, then piece everything back together once you’re done.

Once the painting is done, the job still isn’t finished. You need to wait for the paint to cure, which usually takes anywhere from a week to multiple weeks. During this time, you need to maintain optimal conditions too, maintaining the ideal temperature, ensuring proper ventilation, and making sure the area is clear of dust, which can get stuck in the finish.

If you don’t wait for the paint to cure, it won’t stick on the surface for as long, and the finish will be more susceptible to dents, scratches, and peeling.

As you can see, bathroom and kitchen cabinet painting are very tedious tasks that require more skill and experience to pull off. The worst part is that your margin for error is very thin — if you make a mistake and the paint chips, peels, or looks uneven, you might have to start over, because there’s no easy fix when it comes to cabinets.

This is why when it comes to cabinet painting, it makes more sense to engage a cabinet painting company and leave it up to the cabinet painter to take care of this arduous project.

When you enlist the services of cabinet painters, you’re not just paying for their expertise, but also paying for them to take on the mental and physical strain of performing these taxing tasks.

Engaging professional cabinet painting services may cost more than DIYing, but you’ll get far, far better results and save yourself a ton of unnecessary stress and fatigue.

If you’re looking for a cabinet painting service that you can count on, give Renewed Walls Painting a call today at 919-759-6676. You can count on us to deliver the highest quality work, completed on time and within budget, every time.