Kitchen Cabinet Painting & Refinishing
Sprayed Factory-Style Finishes for a Fraction of Replacement Cost
Cabinet Painting
A new kitchen for a tenth of a new kitchen
Solid cabinet boxes in a dated color are the best value in home improvement. Revolve Construction refinishes kitchen and bath cabinets across the St. Louis metro — degreased, sanded, bond-primed, and sprayed with a hard cabinet-grade finish that looks factory-applied and holds up to daily use.
Why homeowners and businesses trust Revolve
Degrease, then sand, then prime
Kitchen cabinets carry years of cooking film. Skip the degreasing step and the best primer in the world will peel off in sheets a year later. We clean, scuff-sand, and bond-prime every surface.
Sprayed, not brushed
Doors and drawer fronts come off, get numbered, and are sprayed flat in a controlled space. That's what eliminates brush marks and gives the finish its factory look.
Cabinet-grade coatings only
We use hard-curing enamels formulated for cabinetry, not wall paint. It matters the first time somebody drags a pot across a door.
What we offer
Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Full kitchens — boxes, doors, drawer fronts, and end panels — in your color and sheen.
Bath Vanity Refinishing
Moisture-tolerant systems for vanities, linen cabinets, and built-ins.
Two-Tone & Island Accents
Contrasting islands, lowers, and hutches to modernize without a full replacement.
Hardware & Hinge Updates
New pulls, knobs, and soft-close hinges installed and drilled during the refinish.
Built-Ins & Millwork
Bookcases, entertainment centers, mantels, and wainscot finished to match.
Trim & Door Packages
Add interior doors and trim to the same spray schedule for a consistent whole-house finish.
Related Services
Interior Painting
Add walls, ceilings, and trim to the same schedule for a consistent whole-house finish.
Painting
Interior, exterior, cabinets, and commercial painting across the St. Louis metro.
Exterior Painting
Full exterior repaints with rot repair handled in-house.
Commercial Painting
Millwork and casework finishing for offices, retail, and multi-family.
The Best Dollar-for-Dollar Upgrade in a Kitchen
If your cabinet boxes are solid and the layout works, replacing them is largely paying to throw away functional carcasses. A full kitchen cabinet replacement in the St. Louis market typically runs $15,000 to $40,000-plus installed. Refinishing the same kitchen usually lands between $3,500 and $9,000 and takes about a week instead of a month, without demolition, countertop removal, or a kitchen that is unusable for the duration.
The catch is that cabinet refinishing done badly looks terrible and fails fast — brush marks, doors that stay tacky, finish peeling off around the handles within a year. Nearly all of that comes from two skipped steps: degreasing and bond-priming. Done right, a refinished kitchen looks factory-finished and holds up to daily use.
Degrease, Sand, Bond-Prime, Spray
Kitchen cabinets accumulate years of aerosolized cooking oil, especially the doors above and beside the range. No primer bonds to that film. Our first step is a thorough degreasing with a purpose-made cleaner, then a scuff sand to break the sheen on the existing finish, then a bonding primer engineered to grip factory conversion varnish, thermofoil, or old oil-based enamel.
Doors, drawer fronts, and removable shelving come off, get labeled and numbered, and are sprayed flat in a controlled area — that is what eliminates brush marks and drips and gives the finish its uniform, factory look. Boxes, face frames, and end panels get sprayed in place with the surrounding kitchen fully masked and contained.
The topcoat matters as much as the prep. We use hard-curing cabinet-grade enamels rather than wall paint, because a cabinet door gets dragged with pots, wiped with cleaner, and slammed several times a day. Those products also need real cure time — usable in days, fully hardened over a few weeks — and we tell you that up front so you treat them gently in the first stretch.
What Refinishes Well and What Does Not
Solid wood, MDF, and quality plywood cabinet doors refinish beautifully. Oak refinishes well too, but the open grain will still read through paint — that is a look some people love and others do not, and we show you what to expect before you commit rather than after.
Thermofoil and laminate cabinets can be painted with the right bonding primer, but peeling or bubbling thermofoil should be replaced instead. Doors with delaminated veneer, water-swollen bottoms under a sink, or broken frames should be replaced or repaired first. We assess honestly — talking someone into refinishing cabinets that should be replaced produces an unhappy customer in eighteen months.
This is also the time to change hardware. New pulls, knobs, and soft-close hinges get drilled and installed during the refinish, when the doors are already off and the finish is fresh. Adding interior doors, trim, or a built-in to the same spray schedule costs far less than doing it as a separate project later.