Top Shelf Cabinet & Design
Fort Lauderdale
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Top Shelf Cabinet & DesignFort Lauderdale, FL
Top Shelf Cabinet & Design
Cabinetry

Cabinet Refinishing & Painting
A sprayed factory finish, not a brush and a hopeful afternoon.

Sprayed in a controlled finish, not brushed in your kitchen. Doors come to the shop and come back hard-cured.

The difference between a cabinet paint job that lasts nine years and one that chips in nine months is almost entirely preparation and cure. Kitchen cabinetry takes fingernails, grease, steam, and cleaning product every day, and a brushed latex coat over a factory catalyzed finish will not survive that no matter how carefully it went on.

We degrease, sand, and prime with a bonding primer made for the finish underneath, then spray. Doors and drawer fronts come off to the shop where they get sprayed flat and cure properly. Boxes are sprayed in place under containment with the room under negative pressure so your house does not end up coated in overspray.

Cabinet Refinishing & Painting completed by Top Shelf Cabinet & Design in South Florida
What's included

What you get when you hire us for cabinet refinishing & painting.

  • Full degrease and scuff-sand of every surface, including door edges
  • Bonding primer matched to the existing factory finish
  • Doors and fronts sprayed off-site and hard-cured before rehang
  • On-site containment with negative air for box and frame spraying
  • Grain filling on oak when a smooth painted look is the goal
  • New hinges and hardware installed on rehang
How it goes

From the first visit to the punch list.

Seven steps, in order, every time. You always know which one you are in.

Step 01

The first visit

Vincent comes out, measures the room, and looks at what you already have. If your boxes are worth keeping he will tell you so, even though refacing is the smaller job. You get a straight read on what the space can do.

Step 02

Design and drawings

We draw the room in 3D — elevations you can actually read, not a rendering with fake pendant lights. You see cabinet heights, drawer configurations, and where every filler lands before anything is ordered.

Step 03

Materials in your light

Door samples, finish samples, and hardware come to your house. Showroom lighting lies. A white that looks warm in the showroom can read grey under your north-facing window, and you should find that out now.

Step 04

A real calendar

At contract you get dates, not a range — order date, expected delivery, install week, template day, countertop install. If a supplier slips, you hear it from us in writing the day we hear it.

Questions

Cabinet Refinishing & Painting — the questions we get most.

How long before I can use the kitchen normally?
You can use it within a day of rehang, but the finish keeps hardening for two to three weeks. During that window, close doors gently, skip abrasive cleaners, and do not stack anything against a painted surface. After full cure it behaves like any factory finish.
Can you paint oak cabinets without the grain showing?
Yes, but it takes a grain-filling step and it adds time. Some people want the grain to read through, which is a legitimate look and costs less. We will show you both on a sample door before you decide.
Will my kitchen smell like paint for a week?
Not with the way we sequence it. The doors — which are most of the surface area — are sprayed at the shop. The in-place box spraying is done under containment with air moving out of the house, and modern waterborne finishes have very little odor to begin with.

Ready to talk about cabinet refinishing & painting?

Vincent does the first visit himself. He measures, he looks at what you already have, and he tells you straight what the room can do — including when the answer is less work than you expected. No charge for that visit.

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