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Recommendation for Painter/Spray-Painter for Kitchen Cabinets in Durham

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Recommendation for Painter/Spray-Painter for Kitchen Cabinets in Durham

Hi RFD,

If anyone has any recommendations, that would be great!
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When I bought my house 2 years ago, we got quotes from ~8 companies for our kitchen (standard 10x10 with island approximately 4 foot by 3 foot). The quotes were $4000-$8000.

We also got quotes to just replace all the cabinets with MDF cabinets. That quote was $7000.

We ended up buying some TSP, sand paper, spray gun, primer, and Benjamin Moore Advance and repainted the cabinets ourselves. Took a lot of work, but saved us at least $4k. They look brand new even today, 2 years later.
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iEyeCaptain wrote: When I bought my house 2 years ago, we got quotes from ~8 companies for our kitchen (standard 10x10 with island approximately 4 foot by 3 foot). The quotes were $4000-$8000.

We also got quotes to just replace all the cabinets with MDF cabinets. That quote was $7000.

We ended up buying some TSP, sand paper, spray gun, primer, and Benjamin Moore Advance and repainted the cabinets ourselves. Took a lot of work, but saved us at least $4k. They look brand new even today, 2 years later.

I did the same. Had real maple doors. Took off all doors, lightly sanding, degreaser/deglosser, and then sprayed them with semigloss latex using a cheap spray gun I got from amazon for like $50 (This One).

Took a long time to do so not for everyone (due to limited room to spray and store multiple doors while paint dried over 3 coats each door front and back...1 primer coat, 2finish coats). Did all the uppers first and then all the lowers. They came out perfect and factory smooth finish. You'd never know it was a DIY job.

Think total coast was like <$400 including all misc items and products VS multi thousands+ pro costs.
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Yup. Took two weeks for us. Two full weekends and every weeknight after dinner.

We also chose new pull hardware, so we had to remove the existing pulls, putty up the holes, drill new ones, install new pulls.

We got lazy with the back of the cabinets, we just roller painted those.. lmao.
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