Cabinet Painting in Houston

Cabinet refinishing is the single highest-impact interior project across Memorial, Hunters Creek Village, the Galleria Area, and West Houston. Kitchens that reach out are usually one of two houses: a 1990s or 2000s Memorial or Jersey Village build with honey oak that has read dated since roughly 2015, or a newer Summerwood or Willowbrook kitchen with builder-grade maple that never suited the client. Both refinish beautifully, but oak needs its heavy grain filled if the client wants a truly smooth face, and maple needs a stain-blocking primer. Our writeup on the best paint for cabinets walks through the coatings we actually use.

Two-tone kitchens dominate the requests we see across Memorial, Hunters Creek Village, and West Houston: warm off-white perimeters paired with a saturated island in deep navy, forest green, or warm charcoal. Older Garden Oaks and Heights-adjacent remodels lean into layered heritage tones with brushed brass or matte black hardware. The finish schedule is built for a sprayed, hand-leveled result on doors and drawer fronts, with brush-and-roll only where a spray simply cannot go without masking the whole house.

Gulf Coast kitchens run hard through hot humid summers and long shoulder seasons, and heavy-cooking households push soot and grease onto cabinet fronts long before the finish itself fails. Crews degrease with a real cleaner, sand for adhesion, and use a cabinet-grade waterborne alkyd that cures hard enough that soap and a rag do not lift color months later. Cabinet work sequences cleanly with any interior painting already on the scope, and exposed soffit drywall can fold in drywall repair.