Cabinet Refinishing in St. Rose, LA

It also makes the substrate question worth asking early. Newer kitchens are more likely to include thermofoil or melamine fronts alongside wood, and those are a different conversation: they can be done, it depends entirely on their condition, and we would rather look before promising anything than commit to a finish that will not hold.

Where the doors are solid wood or wood veneer the method is the standard one and it works well: doors and drawer fronts off and numbered, hardware off instead of being cut around, everything degreased properly, then sand, prime and thin coats with real cure time between them and no attempt whatsoever to hurry the part of the process that is doing the actual work. Thin coats. Real time.

Degreasing is the step that decides it. A kitchen deposits cooking oil on every surface within reach of the hob for as long as it has existed, and no primer made will stick through that, which is exactly why the cheap version of this job lifts at the door edges inside a year.

Levee-side humidity lengthens the cure through the summer, so a July kitchen carries more days than the same kitchen in November. We build it in instead of rushing it.

The corridor is worth one mention indoors as well. On the streets closest to River Road there is more airborne deposit settling on everything, kitchen surfaces included, which simply means the degreasing step matters here for two reasons, not one and gets the time it needs.

Boxes are done in place. You lose the cupboards, not the kitchen.