Our Cabinet Refinishing Process & Timeline
Exactly what happens during the week your kitchen is being transformed.
Cabinet refinishing is more involved than wall painting, but the process is predictable. Here's exactly what we do during a typical Omaha kitchen refinish and what each day looks like.
Day by day
This is a typical 30-linear-foot Omaha kitchen schedule.
- Day 1 — Mask kitchen, remove all doors, drawer fronts, and hardware. Number and bag everything. Doors and fronts leave for the off-site spray shop.
- Day 2 — Clean and degrease boxes. Sand all surfaces. Repair small dings.
- Day 3 — Prime boxes. Doors are being sprayed off-site in parallel.
- Day 4 — Sand primer, apply first finish coat to boxes.
- Day 5 — Second finish coat on boxes. Doors begin cure cycle.
- Day 6–7 — Reinstall doors, drawer fronts, and hardware. Final walkthrough.
Why we spray doors off-site
Doors are the most visible cabinet surface and the part that takes the most abuse. Spraying them in a dust-controlled shop gives a glass-smooth factory finish that's impossible to match with brush-and-roll on-site. Boxes are sprayed or finished by hand on-site with the same M.L. Campbell coatings.
Cure window
Doors are reinstalled once they're handle-hard, but full cure takes about 30 days. During that window, treat the finish gently — no aggressive cleaners, no banging hardware. After cure, the finish is bulletproof for years.
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