A kitchen in the style of a house thirty to forty years old, with the original wood-tone cabinets making the room look dated. The owner was preparing to sell and wanted the white finish buyers expect today.
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Residential interiors

Wood-tone cabinets turned white before a sale

A kitchen in the style of a house thirty to forty years old, with the original wood-tone cabinets making the room look dated. The owner was preparing to sell and wanted the white finish buyers expect today.

When
Spring 2026
Surfaces
Kitchen cabinet doors and boxes

What we found

Solid wood cabinets in the original wood tone, in good structural condition but dated, with cooking grease on the surfaces.

How the work was done

  1. Clean all of the cooking grease off the surfaces first.
  2. Take the cabinet doors off.
  3. Prime, then sand.
  4. Two top coats.

How it turned out

The kitchen reads as modern once the doors go back on. Keeping the solid wood boxes costs far less than replacing the kitchen, and cabinets of that timber quality are hard to buy now. The existing handles were reused.

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Described by Mayda Painting from its own record of the job. Scope and method are as carried out on this project; every property is assessed on site.

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