Cabinet Painting in Goose Creek, SC Without Losing Your Kitchen
Doors off, degreased, bonding primer, thin cured coats.
Cypress Prime does cabinet painting in Goose Creek, SC and across the Charleston area, for kitchens and bathrooms. Doors and drawer fronts come off and get labeled, every surface is degreased and sanded, a bonding primer goes on, and the finish is applied in thin coats so the grain of the brush never shows. Boxes are painted in place with the openings masked, which is what keeps the kitchen usable while the work happens. Cabinet refinishing done this way holds up to hands, water and cleaning products, which is the whole test in a kitchen. Interior work carries a 1-year written warranty, and you get the scope in writing before we start. We are licensed and insured.
The decision behind the search
Painted Kitchen Cabinets or New Ones: The Honest Comparison
Most people asking about cabinet painting are really asking whether to paint or replace. Here is the comparison without the sales pitch.
| What you are comparing | Cabinet painting | New cabinets |
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | Days | Weeks, plus lead time on the order |
| Your kitchen during the work | Usable, with the openings masked | Torn out |
| What changes | Color and finish | Layout, sizes and storage |
| What stays | The boxes, the layout, the storage you already have | Nothing |
| Worth it when | The boxes are solid and you are tired of the color | The layout is wrong or the boxes are failing |
| Not worth it when | The boxes are water-damaged or coming apart | The only real problem is the color |
If we look at your cabinets and the boxes are failing, we will tell you that painting them is money in the wrong place.
Three shortcuts we do not take
Why Cabinet Painting Fails, and What We Do Instead
Cabinets are the hardest painting job in a house, and most failures come from the same three shortcuts.
- 1
Grease left on the surface
Kitchen cabinets carry a film of cooking oil that you cannot see and paint will not stick to. Every door gets degreased before anything else happens.
- 2
No bonding primer
Factory finishes are slick on purpose. Paint applied straight onto them peels at the edges within a year, usually right where fingers land.
- 3
Coats too heavy
A thick coat looks like coverage and dries into brush texture and soft edges. Thin coats, fully cured between them, are what make a painted door read as factory-finished.
What is in the scope
Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinet Painting
Kitchen cabinet painting
Doors, drawer fronts and boxes, including the inside edges people actually touch. Hardware removed and reinstalled, or replaced if you are changing it.
Bathroom cabinet painting
Vanities take water and humidity that a kitchen never sees, so the prep and the finish are chosen for that instead of borrowed from the kitchen.
Hardware and hinges
We reuse what works and tell you when a hinge is the reason a door sits crooked, instead of painting around the problem.
Priced after we look
What Cabinet Painting Costs Around Charleston
We do not publish a price, because the number depends on the door count, the current finish and the condition of the boxes. A twelve-door kitchen with a factory finish in good shape and a thirty-door kitchen with peeling laminate are not the same job.
What you get instead of a number on a page: a visit, a look at the actual cabinets, and the scope in writing with the warranty attached.
Service area
Where We Do Cabinet Painting
Based in Goose Creek and working across the Charleston area, within about 30 miles.
- Goose CreekOur base
- Charleston
- Summerville
- North Charleston
- Mount Pleasant
- Hanahan · Ladson · Moncks Corner · Cane Bay · Nexton
- and nearby areas
If your town is not on the list and you are in that radius, ask anyway.
Owner-supervised on every job
Why Homeowners Around Goose Creek Call Our Cabinet Painters
The owner does the estimate visit himself and does the work, so nothing gets lost between the person who priced it and the person holding the brush.
His background is the trade: painting, drywall, texture and finish work, learned on high-end homes where the finish had to hold up to inspection. He is also trained as a designer, which matters more on cabinets than anywhere else in a house: how a color reads against a countertop, how much sheen a kitchen can carry before it looks plastic, whether a finish line is actually straight where the door meets the frame.
We are licensed and insured, and the warranty is written before the work starts.
Proof
See Our Work
Before and after photos of real kitchens and bathrooms in the Charleston area.
What homeowners say
What Homeowners Say
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Before you hire
Questions About Cabinet Painting
Can I use my kitchen while you paint the cabinets?
Yes, and that is how we plan the job. Doors and drawer fronts are finished off site or in a controlled spot, and the boxes are painted in place with the openings masked. You lose the doors for a few days, not the kitchen.
How long do painted kitchen cabinets last?
Done with proper degreasing, a bonding primer and thin cured coats, the finish holds for years of normal kitchen use. Skipping any of the three is what makes cabinet painting peel, and that is what the warranty is about.
Is cabinet refinishing the same thing as cabinet painting?
People use both words for the same job, and that is what we do here: the existing boxes and doors, prepped and finished in a new color. Refinishing that strips back to bare wood and stains it is different work, and we will say so if that is what you want.
Can you paint cabinets that were painted before?
Usually yes. It depends on what is under there and how well it is holding. Send photos of an edge and a corner and we will tell you whether it needs stripping first.
Do you change the hardware?
We can reuse yours or install new hardware you have chosen. If a door sits crooked because of a worn hinge, we will point it out rather than paint around it.
Quality spaces. A brighter tomorrow.
Ready for a Different Kitchen Without a Remodel
Same layout, same storage, different room.