Cabinet Painting in Lake Murray

Cabinet refinishing is the single highest-impact interior project across Chapin, Lexington, Irmo, and Seven Oaks. Kitchens that reach out are usually one of two houses: a 1980s or 1990s Irmo or older Lexington build with honey oak that has read dated since roughly 2015, or a newer Chapin or Lexington 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 around Lake Murray: warm off-white perimeters paired with a saturated island in deep navy, forest green, or warm charcoal. Lake-shore custom remodels lean into water-informed blues and greens 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.

Midlands kitchens carry a lot of interior humidity through summer months, and cook-heavy months 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.