We stay focused on painting kitchen cabinets

You have a lot of choices for hiring a cabinet painting company in the Kansas City area. The design trend for painted kitchen cabinets caused a lot of interest to fill the demand. House painters will tell you, “Yes, we paint cabinets!” They weren’t all that interested in cabinets before.

Others have jumped into the cabinet painting market too. These are people who have some level of DIY skills and think painting cabinets is an easy way to make money.

Spreading too thin

On the other hand we’ve seen companies expand from refinishing cabinets to offering total kitchen remodeling. Now they offer granite or quartz counter tops, tile back splash replacement as well as painting. They say it’s a convenience so you have a one-stop shop.

We’re doing what we’re good at

We made the decision to stay focused on what we’re good at. Yes, we know enough about kitchen remodeling that we could do it all. But we’d have to hire sub-contractors for everything but the painting. And the time we’d spend managing the job would be a distraction from giving you a great finish for your cabinets.

Too many people cut corners

We’ve had more calls this year to fix problems with other people’s poor quality. The sad fact is that a lot of old-time painters rush through a job and cut corners. And newbie painters just don’t know enough to do the job right.

When the paint is chipping off in a few months, or sometimes a few weeks, we know someone cut corners.

Of course you can’t expect paint to be like Captain America. It will chip if you hit it hard enough. But when we do additional work for our clients, the cabinet painting we did still looks good after several years of normal use.

We give you good quality and value

Your kitchen is usually the hub of your home. When you want help making it a place you love again, give us a call. We can help you be sure the job is done right.

Call us now: 913-441-5508

For three years we’ve told ourselves we need to retire our Home Show booth and start fresh. But we put all of our energy and focus into making sure our client’s have great looking cabinets. Sure, getting ready for the Home Show is at the back of our mind, but we always come to the point we have to take our ten-year-old booth out of storage and spiff it up for the show.

Of course, it’s our cabinet door finishes that are the star attraction. The walls of our booth are only the background.

But last year we hit a crisis. Our home renovation forced us to act. Our Home Show booth is stored in our lower level. We never considered his when we rebuilt our basement stairs and extended our living room floor.

We had only inches to spare as we contorted the center section or our booth up the stairs. After last year’s show I cut the booth in pieces and set it on the curb to be hauled away.

So this year we have a new booth as well as some new cabinet finishes.

One of the trends we see in kitchen cabinets is a sleeker glaze look when cabinets are painted. The old-world, dirty white finishes are out. The cabinets are still glazed and have dimension and character, but they are calmer finishes that call less attention to themselves. They don’t have to make a statement or stand out.

The result is that your kitchen decor becomes a background. This is good because it gives you the option to dress your kitchen up or down merely by changing some accessories.

Besides updating our glazed doors we included a new finish we call “Patty’s Hutch.” We create this finish with specialty paints from two sources: Caromal Colours and Pure Earth Paint.

This new finish got a lot of attention at the Home Show. We also just completed a refinish of a built-in desk and cabinets. I’ll have before and afters and a story about that project coming up soon.

We have one more show this year: the Johnson County Home and Garden show. If you are in Kansas City that weekend come by the show and see our new booth and finishes.

We’re working for a long-time client, refinishing her kitchen cabinets, fireplace mantle and entertainment center. The picture above is of the powder room we did 8 years ago. It still looks good and still fits the style of the house. As I looked closer at the finish I realized we did it using a sponge.

Now, we began our business back in the days when sponge painting was all the rage. And lots of DIY types were slapping paint on the wall with a sea sponge. Some of them even started small businesses doing sponge painting and “rag-rolling”. But it only took a few years for sponge painting and rag rolling to become “not cool”. If everyone had it and everyone was doing it then it wasn’t “special” any more. And part of the reason sponge painting fell from popularity so quickly is that there were a lot of amateurs doing it and getting amateur-looking results.

The reason I mention this brief history of sponge painting is to point out that we used a sponge on these walls 5 years or so after sponge painting was passe’. You see, we didn’t settle for being amateur DIY types who decided to start a business. We made it a point to find the best faux finishing schools in the nation and attend classes. And we learned the latest styles and techniques, but we didn’t just give our clients the new “hot” look. We took time to make sure that any faux finish we we did would fit the style of the house and would give a look that would stand the test of time. And we had the training to use a sea sponge to create a look that didn’t look like sponge painting.

And now our business is focused almost entirely on refinishing kitchen cabinets. But we still use the same care give our clients a look that’s going to stand the test of time. We’ve been doing faux finishes and refinishing kitchen cabinets for a long time. And we have a portfolio of some really creative and cool finishes we can do on kitchen cabinets. But our focus is on making your house look good, not to show how creative we are. We will always work hard to make your home look amazing with a style that will look good years from now.