Yes. Elite Edge Painting refinishes kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, laundry room cabinetry, and built ins for homeowners throughout Vancouver, WA and the surrounding Clark County area. Every project includes removing and labeling doors and drawer fronts, thorough degreasing, sanding, a bonding primer matched to your cabinet material, and multiple sprayed coats of a durable cabinet grade finish. We can also fill and redrill hardware holes if you are changing knobs or pulls. We are locally owned, licensed and insured, and estimates are free. Call (360) 550-0237.

Dramatically, and it is usually the reason homeowners call us in the first place. Refinishing typically costs a small fraction of new cabinetry, because you are keeping the boxes, the doors, the drawers, the hinges, and the layout you already paid for and changing only the finish. It also avoids everything that surrounds a cabinet replacement, including demolition, countertop removal and refitting, plumbing disconnection, potential electrical work, and weeks without a functioning kitchen. If your boxes are sound and the layout works for you, refinishing gets you most of the visual result of a new kitchen for a very different number.

Refinishing keeps everything you have and changes the coating on it, so your existing doors and boxes get cleaned, sanded, primed, and sprayed a new color. Refacing keeps the boxes but replaces the doors and drawer fronts entirely and applies a veneer to the exposed box faces, which costs considerably more and lets you change door style. Replacing tears out everything and starts over, which is the only option if the boxes themselves are failing or the layout genuinely does not work. Refinishing is the right answer when you like your door style and your layout and simply want a different color and a fresh surface.

Yes, and this is the question that matters most for the majority of Clark County kitchens, since so many were built with oak. Oak has deep open pores, and if you simply paint over it the grain telegraphs right through the finish, giving you white cabinets with visible oak striping. Some homeowners like that look. Most who ask for white cabinets are picturing something smooth and are disappointed when they get the alternative. Getting a smooth result requires a grain filling step before priming, which adds labor and cost but is the difference between cabinets that read as modern and cabinets that read as painted oak. We show you both at the estimate so the choice is yours rather than a surprise.

No, and this is why we identify the material before quoting rather than after starting. Solid wood and wood veneer doors refinish beautifully. MDF doors, common on painted cabinetry, also take a new finish well as long as they have not swollen from water. Thermofoil, which is a vinyl film heat wrapped over a substrate, is the problem case. Where the film is intact it can sometimes be coated with the right bonding primer, but once it has started peeling or bubbling, usually near the dishwasher or above the range, coating over it will not hold. Laminate has similar limitations. We will tell you honestly if your cabinets are not good candidates rather than take the job and hand you a finish that fails.

Because it is the single most common reason cabinet jobs fail. Kitchen cabinets accumulate years of airborne cooking oil, and that film is largely invisible, so a surface that looks clean and feels clean can still be contaminated enough that no coating will bond to it. The heaviest buildup is on the doors around and above the range and on the uppers where warm air carries it. If a crew wipes things down quickly and goes straight to sanding, the sanding just spreads the grease around, and the finish starts peeling near the stove within the first year. Proper degreasing takes time and it is not a step we shorten regardless of the schedule.

Doors and drawer fronts are sprayed, always. Spraying is the only method that produces the smooth even surface people are picturing when they imagine refinished cabinets, and brush marks on a cabinet door are visible from across a kitchen and impossible to ignore once you notice them. Doors are removed and finished off the cabinets so they can be sprayed flat, which prevents runs and gives an even film on both faces. Boxes and face frames are finished in place with the surrounding kitchen fully masked. Anyone quoting a brushed cabinet job at a low price is selling you something that will not look like the photos you are comparing it to.

A typical kitchen runs about one to two weeks from start to doors rehung, depending on the number of doors and drawers and how much prep the existing finish requires. The good news is that you keep using your kitchen throughout. Your appliances, sink, and counters all stay in service, and the cabinet boxes remain usable while the doors are away being finished, so you are cooking in an open shelf kitchen rather than eating takeout for a month. There will be a few days when boxes and face frames are being coated in place and access is limited. We tell you exactly which days those are so you can plan around them.

Cabinets are priced primarily on door and drawer count rather than kitchen square footage, since that is where the labor lives. The other major factors are the material, whether grain filling is needed for a smooth finish on oak, how much degreasing and repair the existing cabinets require, whether you are changing hardware, and whether it is a single color or a two tone scheme. A small bathroom vanity and a large kitchen with an island and a pantry are very different projects. We count doors and drawers, identify the material, and give you a written estimate with the scope itemized and the price locked. Call (360) 550-0237 for a free estimate.

Properly done, it holds up for many years of normal kitchen use, and the coatings made specifically for cabinetry cure far harder than wall paint or standard trim enamel. That said, no refinished surface is quite as bulletproof as a factory applied conversion finish baked on in a plant, and anyone claiming otherwise is overselling. The wear points are what you would expect, the edges around handles, the doors under the sink, and anything that gets hit by a chair or a pan. What determines longevity more than anything is the preparation underneath, particularly the degreasing, and giving the finish adequate cure time before the kitchen goes back to full use.

Doors can be rehung and used gently once the coating has set, but full cure takes considerably longer, and cabinets need that cure time more than any surface in the house because they touch each other every time they close. During the cure window, close doors gently rather than letting them swing shut, avoid stacking heavy items directly against shelf fronts, and hold off on cleaning the surfaces with anything but a dry cloth. Damp Vancouver conditions extend cure times, so we give you a specific timeline based on the product used and the season rather than a generic number. Respecting that window is what prevents the doors from imprinting against the frames.

Yes, and doing it during a refinish is by far the best time. If new pulls have a different hole spacing than the old ones, the existing holes get filled, sanded flush, and coated over, and new holes are drilled in the correct positions. Done as part of the refinish this is invisible. Done afterward on finished doors it is a repair you will always be able to see. Changing from knobs to pulls, or moving to longer pulls, is common and straightforward. Buy your hardware before the project starts so we can drill to the actual spacing rather than to what a listing claimed the spacing would be.

White and off white remain the most requested and the safest for resale, with warmer whites having largely displaced the stark cool whites that were popular a decade ago. Greige and soft greens have grown steadily. Two tone schemes with a darker island or darker lowers against lighter uppers are very popular and add depth without committing the whole kitchen to a dark color. What matters most in Vancouver specifically is light. Kitchens here spend much of the year under gray skies, and a dark cabinet color that looks striking in a magazine can make a north facing Clark County kitchen feel like a cave in January. We test samples in your actual kitchen before you commit.

Sometimes, and it depends on what you are asking for. If your cabinets are solid wood and you want to go darker, restaining is achievable. If you want to go lighter or shift away from an orange tone while keeping visible wood, that requires sanding back to bare on every door and face frame, which is very labor intensive on cabinetry and often approaches the cost of other options. Veneer doors add risk because the veneer is thin and can be sanded through. If the goal is simply to refresh existing stained cabinets that have dulled, a clean and recoat of the clear finish is often the better and far cheaper route. We assess your specific cabinets and lay out the realistic options.

Minor damage is routine. Dings, small chips, worn edges, and loose joints get repaired, filled, and sanded as part of the prep. The common problem area in any kitchen is the cabinet under the sink, where a slow leak swells the box bottom and the lower door, and swollen material cannot simply be coated over. Depending on the extent, individual doors can sometimes be sourced or a box floor rebuilt, and in some cases the honest answer is that one section needs replacement while the rest refinishes fine. We check the sink base specifically at every walkthrough and flag anything that needs addressing before quoting.

Far less than most people expect, largely because the doors and drawer fronts leave the house. Those are the pieces that generate the most sanding dust and all of the spray, and they are finished off site. What happens in your kitchen is the degreasing and sanding of boxes and face frames, which is contained with masking, plastic barriers over openings to adjacent rooms, and floor and counter protection. Appliances and countertops are covered. Sanding does produce dust regardless of containment, so we clean at the end of each working day rather than leaving it to accumulate until the project finishes.

Wait out the full cure window before cleaning with anything but a dry cloth. After that, use a soft cloth with mild soap and water and skip anything abrasive, ammonia based, or labeled as a degreaser, since those strip the finish over time. Wipe up splatters near the range and around the sink promptly rather than letting them sit and bake on. Do not hang wet towels over a cabinet door, which is a surprisingly common source of finish failure on the door beside the sink. Touch up product for the exact color is left with you at the end of the project for the occasional chip.

Yes, and vanities are one of the highest value small projects in a house. A single vanity refinished with new hardware transforms a dated bathroom for very little money, and it is a common add on when we are already doing a kitchen. Bathrooms and laundry rooms bring their own considerations because of constant moisture, which means the finish selection and the attention to sealing edges matter more than in a kitchen. The vanity area around the sink and the cabinet beside a washer are the spots that fail first, so we check both for existing water damage before quoting.

Elite Edge Painting serves homeowners throughout Vancouver, WA and the surrounding Clark County area including Camas, Washougal, Battle Ground, Ridgefield, Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, Felida, Orchards, Brush Prairie, Hockinson, La Center, and the greater Portland metro area. If you are not certain whether your address falls inside our service area, call us and we will confirm right away. We are locally owned and based here, which matters on cabinet work specifically because doors leave your home for finishing and come back, so a local crew keeps that turnaround short and keeps us close if anything needs adjusting after installation.

Call Elite Edge Painting at (360) 550-0237 or send us a message through the contact form and we will come out to your Vancouver home. At the walkthrough we identify your cabinet material, count doors and drawers, check the sink base and the doors around the range for damage, discuss whether grain filling is needed for the finish you want, and talk through color, sheen, and hardware. You get a written quote with the scope itemized so you know exactly what is included, and an honest answer about whether refinishing is the right call for your cabinets. No pressure and no obligation. Elite Edge Painting is locally owned, licensed and insured.