Cabinet painting
Repainting, refinishing and spray finishing for cabinets across Miami-Dade and Broward. Licensed, insured painters, a firm written price, and the number of days your kitchen is out of use agreed before anyone starts.
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Four words, four budgets
Cabinet work is asked for under four different phrases in this region, and together they run to roughly seventeen hundred requests a month. That much is unsurprising. What is surprising is what happens to the price of reaching those people, because it runs backwards.
When we priced all four in Miami-Dade and Broward, cabinet painting and painting kitchen cabinets came back heavily contested and cheap to reach. Cabinet refinishing came back the opposite way: barely contested, and roughly seven times more expensive per enquiry.
That inversion is not a quirk of the auction. Few companies chase the refinishing request, and the ones that do are willing to pay a lot for it, which only makes sense if the job at the end is worth several times more. The volume words sit in a crowded market of quick repaints. The quiet word sits in front of a small number of firms who expect a large invoice.
You are on the other side of that. Type one phrase and you land in a race to be cheapest. Type the other and you are read as a bigger budget before anyone has seen your kitchen. Neither is wrong, but knowing which room you walked into is worth more than any negotiating tactic.
What the region searches for
Measured in Miami-Dade and Broward, not nationally. A national average would flatten exactly the difference that matters here.
Five different jobs
Two companies can use the same word for genuinely different work. It is the single most common reason quotes for the same kitchen land thousands apart, and it is settled with one question at the walkthrough.
Your doors and boxes stay. Degreased, deglossed or sanded, sealed with a bonding primer, finished in a cabinet-grade enamel. This is what most people mean and it is the bulk of the work done here.
Stripped back to the timber, then stained or clear-coated again. Closer to woodwork than to decorating, considerably slower, and not every company offers it at all.
New doors and drawer fronts fitted to the boxes you already own, with matching veneer on the frames. None of it is painting. A quote covering this is a carpentry quote wearing a painter's title.
Doors come off and get sprayed in a masked-off corner of the house or the garage. Faster, cheaper, and the result depends entirely on how well that corner was sealed off from the rest of the house.
Doors leave, get finished in a booth under controlled conditions, and come back. The best finish available, in exchange for a kitchen with open boxes for several days.
Worth naming because it is the real alternative. Cabinets are the only surface in the house where repainting competes against buying new, which is why the decision feels heavier than painting a wall.
What actually moves the number
Kitchen cabinets are not priced by the square foot the way a wall is. They are priced by how many separate pieces have to be removed, labelled, prepared, coated on both faces and rehung. A galley kitchen with twenty-two doors and eight drawers is a smaller job than an open-plan kitchen with the same run of counter and forty pieces on it.
The second driver is what the doors are made of, and it is the one that surprises people. Raw timber, previously painted timber, thermofoil and laminate each accept a primer differently. The laminate door nobody expected to be laminate is the one that lifts a year later, and the honest version of that conversation happens before the quote, not after the failure.
Take five minutes and count. Doors and drawer fronts, separately, including the pantry and any island. Walking into a quote with that number changes the conversation, because it is the number the estimator was going to spend the first ten minutes working out.
Bring these to the walkthrough
Why cabinet finishes fail
Almost every cabinet finish that peels was applied over something invisible. Years of cooking leave a film on the doors around the hob and above the extractor that a wipe with a damp cloth does not remove. Paint bonds to that film instead of the door, and it comes away in sheets months later, usually starting at the doors nearest the cooker.
A proper cleaner, not soapy water, on every face. The step that is skipped most and costs the most to skip.
The existing finish has to lose its sheen or nothing mechanical holds. Corners and profiles are done by hand.
Chosen for the substrate underneath, not for the colour going over it. This is where laminate is either handled or ignored.
Cabinet enamel is hard to the touch in a day and fully hard in weeks. Slamming doors early leaves marks that never come out.
The same principle governs everything else that peels in this climate. If you want the long version of it, why paint fails faster here reads six failure modes one at a time.
Hinges, handles and colour
Hardware is treated as a detail and it is not. Old hinges going back onto freshly coated doors will show every scratch they arrived with, and swapping to soft-close or to a modern pull almost always means new boring positions, because handle spacing is not standardised. Decide it early enough that any drilling happens while the doors are already off, not after they are hung.
Colour is the other one. A kitchen reads under warm downlights, daylight from one direction and whatever bounces off the countertop, and a chip chosen in a showroom rarely survives all three. Tape a sample to a door, look at it at breakfast and again at night, and only then commit. Once doors are sprayed, changing your mind is not a touch-up, it is the whole cycle again.
Ask for the sheen in writing too. Satin hides handprints better than gloss and shows brush marks less, which is why most kitchens here end up there.
Where to go next
Cabinets are one piece of an interior job. If the walls, trim and ceilings are on the list as well, price them together rather than separately.
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