A cabinet finish is only ever as good as the surface underneath it, and how long yours holds up comes down to how much the people doing the work cared while they were doing it.
Nice painters. Nice paint job.
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You got here about thirty seconds ago, so there’s no reason to take our word for any of this yet.
Before you call anyone
Will the finish hold up? Can I keep using my kitchen while it’s happening? Is the price fair, and what happens if I see something I don’t like halfway through? Here’s where we answer all of that, in writing.
When a cabinet finish fails, it’s the prep that gave out, hardly ever the color. Yours get degreased, sanded, and sprayed with architectural coatings built for cabinets and furniture, two to four coats depending on what shape they’re in. Nobody can honestly promise a good finish in one coat, so we don’t.
See why it lastsOnce we mask it off, the kitchen is our work zone, so plan on eating out or keeping it simple for a few days, no cooking or meal prepping until we’re done. The doors and drawer fronts cure on our spray racks offsite, we mask everything before we start, and we leave it orderly at the end of every day. The sooner we can do it right, the sooner it’s yours again.
How that works on siteOur cabinet pricing sits online for anyone to read before we ever meet, and every proposal you get from us is a fixed price in writing for the whole job.
Read our cabinet pricingIf something catches your eye mid-job, you shouldn’t have to work up the nerve to bring it up. Say it the day you notice it. And no job is finished until you and your crew leader have walked the whole thing together.
How that works on siteThe part you never see
Good paint matters, so we spec architectural coatings made for cabinets and furniture. Past that, a finish is only ever as good as the surface underneath it.
Cabinets live a harder life than your walls do, taking grease and steam and the odd knock and a thousand openings a year. Most of how the finish ages is settled before the first coat ever goes on, back in the degreasing and sanding and priming that never show up in a photo. On your kitchen we give that part the time it takes.
The doors, drawer fronts, and cabinet boxes get sprayed for a smooth, furniture-grade finish, and whenever your kitchen and its surfaces suit it, that fully sprayed finish is what we do as standard. If your cabinets are carrying an unknown coating from some past project, we might instead go with a durable enamel and hand-finish the boxes, and we’ll tell you which of the two yours calls for when we see them. And if you’ve been wanting new pulls or hinges, this is the moment for it. The doors are already off, so we put them on while we’re there.
How many coats your cabinets take, two to four, depends on the shape they’re in and the color you’re going to.
Your project is assigned to a Michael Hines Painting crew, not a rotating collection of whoever is available that morning. Every painter on your project is our employee, and an experienced crew leader stays with the job from beginning to end.
They know what you asked for, what has already been done, and what comes next. They’re also the person you talk to each day. You never have to find out who’s in charge.
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Fewer than 1%
of completed projects have required a callback for touch-up work after the final walkthrough.
Awards do not paint houses. People do.
Still, winning that kind of recognition year after year tells you what the people doing the work are held to. It’s the same bar we work to on every kitchen we refinish in Linden.
Same cabinets, new life
Most kitchens don’t need new cabinets. The ones you’ve got are usually solid, they’ve just gone tired and dark on you.
Same kitchen, same cabinets. We refinished them instead of tearing them out.
The quotes don’t match
You’ve got a few cabinet quotes in front of you, and they’re not close.
It’s almost never the cabinets themselves. It’s what the quote leaves vague. Is the finish getting sprayed for a smooth result, or brushed and rolled on so you can see every stroke a year later? Are they reinstalling every door and every piece of hardware, or is that quietly left to you? Are the people spraying your cabinets the company’s own crew, or subcontractors brought in for the week to keep the number down? The gap between a cheap quote and a fair one is usually buried in what nobody wrote down, and you don’t find it until you’ve already said yes to someone. So we write ours down. Our cabinet pricing is published before we ever meet, and the proposal names exactly what you’re getting.
Read before we ever meet
What refinishing costs by kitchen size, in plain language, on our site right now.
See our cabinet pricing guideNo guessing after your written proposal
We’re rarely the lowest bid, and I’d rather you hear that from us now than feel blindsided by it later. Sometimes it runs the other way too. If your cabinets are honestly better off replaced than refinished, we’ll tell you that while we’re standing in your kitchen.
Book Your Estimate OnlineAfter you tap the button
Six steps, and you can see every one of them coming.
You book online: pick a real time on a real calendar, about ninety seconds.
The visit: we look over your cabinets, and you walk us through whatever’s been on your mind.
A written proposal: the scope and the price, fixed.
Your crew arrives: your kitchen masked and floors protected before the doors come off.
Every day after: a crew leader on site, with an update going to our office and to you.
The final walkthrough: we walk the whole job together before anyone calls it done.
Pick a real appointment time on a real calendar, whenever works for you. If you decide to hire us afterward, 10% holds your project dates, never more than $1,000.
Day three, on your job
It’s day three. The doors and drawer fronts are off getting sprayed, your kitchen isn’t quite itself, and there’s a spot on one of the cabinet frames you’ve looked at twice now, wondering whether to say something.
On our jobs you never have to work up to it. Your crew leader is standing right there, and the small stuff is exactly what you want to raise early, while it’s still small. We get an update from the crew every day, and so do you.
Anybody can type the word care onto a website. In your kitchen it means your counters, floors, and appliances covered before we start, the dust off the sanding kept in check, and the room left orderly at the end of every day, the kind of cleanup customers bring up in their reviews before we ever ask.
By the time we reach the final walkthrough, you’ve had the whole job to speak up. We walk it together at the end as one last check that nothing slipped past either of us before we call it done.
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The founder answers to his own name in every review.
Read them all on GoogleStraight answers
Answered here the same way we answer them standing in your driveway.
Both. We paint cabinets and change their color, and we stain and refinish cabinets that are already stained. It goes past kitchens too: bathroom vanities, laundry cabinets, entertainment centers, bookcases, and other built-ins.
Yes, and usually without stripping them down. Depending on what you’ve got, we’ll sand and blend the stain where the old finish has worn through, mix custom toners to shift the color or change it outright, or just freshen up the tone that’s already there. We’ll look at your cabinets and tell you what’s doable when we come out.
Any finish will take damage if you go at it hard enough, but when cabinets chip it’s almost always the prep that let go rather than the paint. Degreasing, sanding, a bonding primer, and architectural coatings built for cabinets and furniture are what hold a finish tight through years of daily opening and closing. Fewer than 1 percent of our completed projects have needed a touch-up call after the final walkthrough.
It comes down to the size of your kitchen and what shape the cabinets are in, so any honest number needs us to come measure the kitchen first. Our published cabinet pricing lays out the ranges by kitchen size before we ever visit, and your written proposal is what fixes the final price.
The room stays masked and protected while we work, and the doors cure on our racks off site, so most of the kitchen keeps working around us. Your crew leader will walk you through what stays usable day by day when the job starts.
Yes, wherever your kitchen suits it. Our standard is a fully sprayed, furniture-grade finish across the doors, drawer fronts, and boxes. If yours are carrying an unknown coating from some past project, we might go with a durable enamel and hand-finish the boxes instead, and we’ll show you samples and tell you which way yours calls for when we come out.
No. Every painter on your project is a Michael Hines Painting employee.
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See our Linden painting company page. Cabinet painting nearby: Clements · Lockeford · or see everywhere we work.
The 90 second step
Reach us however suits you, by the form here or a call or a text. Whichever you pick, we come see the cabinets in person, then a written, fixed price. Nothing is due until you decide to hire us.
Michael Hines Painting · Ione, CA 95640 · (209) 256-4587