A MESSAGE FROM INDIANA'S #1 TERRE HAUTE CABINET PAINTING TEAM:
Terre Haute, IN property owner,
We refinish kitchen and bath cabinets in place: doors and drawer fronts stripped, sanded, primed and sprayed. You keep the boxes and the layout you already have and spend a fraction of what replacing them costs. We work across Terre Haute and the towns around it.
You do not hate the kitchen. You hate the colour of it, or the finish that has worn through around the handles. Replacing the cabinets means tearing out boxes that are perfectly sound and living without a kitchen for weeks, and it is not what the room actually needs. You want somebody who turns up, tells you straight what it needs, and does it properly the first time. The typical Terre Haute property dates to around 1958, so the housing stock here is largely post-war. With roughly 85 freeze-thaw days a year, anything that traps water moves and cracks.
We come and look at what you actually have, and measure it, rather than pricing it off a photograph you sent.
It says what is included and what is not, which is the only way to hold two quotes side by side and read them honestly.
If this can wait a season, we will say so. If it is worse than you thought, you will hear that from us first.
You might know this as kitchen cabinet refinishing. Same work, either name. Everything below is work we handle directly, not passed to a third party.
Every door, drawer front, hinge, and pull comes off and gets numbered so it returns to the exact opening it came from. Boxes rarely stay perfectly square over decades.
Cabinets near a cooktop carry a film of cooking oil that no primer will stick through. Surfaces get washed with a degreaser, rinsed, then scuff-sanded to kill the factory sheen.
Loose joints, chipped edges, and blown-out screw holes get fixed first. On oak, open grain is filled if you want a smooth painted face instead of visible grain texture.
The primer is picked for the substrate: shellac or a bonding primer over knotty wood and old stain, a specialty adhesion primer over thermofoil, melamine, or laminate fronts.
Doors are sprayed flat in a controlled area, two thin coats with a light sand between. Spraying is what removes brush marks and gets close to a factory-looking surface.
Doors go back on, hinges are adjusted so reveals line up, and new hardware is drilled from a jig. Bumper pads keep fresh finish from sticking to the frame.
A cross-section of the jobs we handle around Terre Haute — different sizes, different conditions, same standard.
We work Terre Haute and the towns around it every week. We also cover Brazil, Tecumseh, Clinton, St. Mary of the Woods, Fontanet, Lyford, Shepardsville and Seelyville. We know what the buildings here are like and how they age.
The crew on your job is licensed, insured, and on our books – we do not hand your work to a subcontractor and hope.
We do cabinet painting specifically. It is not an add-on to a general contracting business. A door comes off and gets examined at the edge to identify wood, MDF, thermofoil, or laminate. That single check determines the primer, the risk, and a large share of the price.
You get the number before the work starts, and it does not move unless something is found that changes the job – which we show you first.
Anything to do with cabinet painting. To start with: removal and labeling, degrease and deglaze, repairs and grain filling, bonding primer, sprayed topcoats, reinstallation and adjustment. If you need something that is not on that list, call and ask – we can usually quote it or tell you honestly who should.
We cover Terre Haute, IN and the surrounding towns – Brazil, Tecumseh, Clinton, St. Mary of the Woods, Fontanet, Lyford, Shepardsville, Seelyville, Fairview Park, Farmersburg, Cloverland, Vermilion, Prairieton, New Goshen, Billtown, Burnett, Rosedale, Universal, Staunton, Centenary, Lakewood, Prairie Creek, Cory, Libertyville, and more. If you do not see your town listed, call anyway and we will tell you straight whether we can get to you.
Removal and labeling – Every door, drawer front, hinge, and pull comes off and gets numbered so it returns to the exact opening it came from. Boxes rarely stay perfectly square over decades.; Degrease and deglaze – Cabinets near a cooktop carry a film of cooking oil that no primer will stick through. Surfaces get washed with a degreaser, rinsed, then scuff-sanded to kill the factory sheen.; Repairs and grain filling – Loose joints, chipped edges, and blown-out screw holes get fixed first. On oak, open grain is filled if you want a smooth painted face instead of visible grain texture.. Which one is right depends on what we find when we look at it, and we will walk you through the trade-offs rather than picking for you.
Removal and labeling is the one we are asked about most often in Terre Haute. Every door, drawer front, hinge, and pull comes off and gets numbered so it returns to the exact opening it came from. Boxes rarely stay perfectly square over decades.
Most jobs land between $1,000 and $10,000 per kitchen, depending on condition and scope. We come out, look at it, and give you a written estimate at no charge. We are not the cheapest outfit in Terre Haute and we will not pretend to be – but you will know exactly what you are paying for before anything starts.
Door and drawer count: Labor scales with the number of pieces, not the size of the room. A galley kitchen with 30 doors costs more than a large kitchen with fewer, larger slab fronts and open shelving. That is usually the biggest single swing in a quote, which is why we look before we price.
Yes. We stand behind what we do and we put the terms in writing with the estimate, so the guarantee is not a handshake you have to remember later.
Call us at (812) 251-0215, or fill in the quote form on this page. We will get back to you, set a time that suits, and come look at the job.
Free estimate, in writing, from a Terre Haute team that does this every day.
Call us whenever suits. We handle every size of job, residential and commercial, across Terre Haute and the towns around it.
Your partner,
Terre Haute Cabinet Painting