Painting a kitchen is cheaper than replacing it, and sometimes it is the wrong economy. The decision turns on one thing that has nothing to do with how the doors look: whether the boxes behind them are sound.
Open the cabinet under the sink and put your hand on the bottom panel. If it is soft, swollen or crumbling at the edges, it is particleboard that has been wet - and painting the door in front of it is putting a new face on a box that is already failing.
Then open a wall cabinet and push up on the underside. If it flexes or the fixings feel loose, the screws are no longer holding in the carcase material. That is not a finish problem and paint will not reach it.
If both checks pass and the layout works, painting is a reasonable answer.
Sound boxes, a layout that works, and only the colour is tired. That is a real situation and it is common in houses from the 1990s and 2000s where the cabinets were decent and the finish is simply of its decade.
Painting cannot move a wall cabinet, cannot add a drawer bank, cannot change a cabinet depth, and cannot fix a corner that wastes half its space. If any of those is on the list, the paint is money spent before the real job.
Rest supplies and fits new cabinets; we do not paint existing ones. That is a different trade and worth saying plainly.
Replacing means new all-plywood boxes with a strict no-particleboard policy, new doors in one of nine stocked collections, and a 12-month limited warranty on cabinets, hinges and drawer glides. It also means the layout can change - drawer bases where doors were, a proper corner solution, tall storage that was never there.
There is a middle route: unfinished doors, finished on site to match work that is staying. That is the honest way to extend a kitchen rather than replace it - see natural wood and unfinished.
Atlanta kitchen cabinets covers the ordering process end to end and Atlanta cabinetry the same work in other rooms. Design consultation models the layout in 3D first; installation and assembly are available for a fee. Shop cabinets lists all nine collections.
No. Rest supplies and installs new cabinets; painting existing ones is a different trade.
Open the cabinet under the sink and feel the bottom panel. Soft or swollen means particleboard that has been wet, and paint will not fix it. Then push up under a wall cabinet - flex means the fixings are no longer holding.
Cheaper up front. It becomes the more expensive route if the layout is wrong or the boxes are failing, because the paint is then money spent before the real job.
Yes, and unfinished doors finished on site are the reliable way to match existing work. Stain and paint colours across different lines will not match exactly.
Yes - 7 to 10 business days, or same-day collection in Norcross. Service areas lists every city.
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