Let 2026 be your year to update your central Texas home. Life is too short for dull, outdated spaces. Cabinet painting makes such a difference, you’ll be delighted with the change!
Experience the joy of making your kitchen a welcoming place you’ll love!
There are a lot of cabinet painters in the greater Austin and San Antonio areas. But cabinet painting and refinishing is an art as well as a science.
Here’s why Paper Moon is different:
We love the magic that happens when a homeowner sees their freshly painted kitchen for the first time. Cabinet painting should be an exciting and stress-free experience!
Picking the right cabinet color can be maddening, but you don’t have to make this journey alone! Our color consultants are certified True Colour Experts®, so your kitchen looks perfectly curated and put together.
Unlike most cabinet painting companies, we don’t use outside subscontractors! Our full-time Paper Moon painters, at both our Austin and San Antonio locations, are part of our family and believe in our mission. They know how to make your cabinets look beautiful and silky-smooth.
Everyone says that they’re “expert cabinet painters” in Austin or in San Antonio. Don’t just Google “cabinet painters near me” and pick the cheapest option! From seeing what’s possible, to picking just the right colors, to experiencing the magical “reveal” at the end, we’ll help restore the joy in the process! We want you to be thrilled with your gorgeous updated kitchen.
Cabinet painting brought the magic to this cosmetic upgrade
Hover to see the “before” of this hopelessly outdated San Antonio kitchen! The cabinet refinishing (and removing the old wallpaper) did the heavy lifting in this stunning transformation.
Our samples prove the right cabinet refinishing can make even heavy-grained oak feel smooth
If you’re saddled with a kitchen full of grainy oak, fear not! We bring our own painted samples, done on red oak with a heavy grain, to every estimate. You can see and feel the difference our process makes. There’s hope for your kitchen yet!
Our cabinet painters are masters in their craft
There’s nothing more stressful than realizing your “least expensive” cabinet painter (or your sweet partner) just can’t make your cabinets look right, and now you’ve wasted time and money. Part of the joy of transforming a kitchen is watching true experts at work! We think our skilled men and women are the best cabinet painters in Austin. 🙂
Paper Moon cabinet painting to the rescue!
Hover to see the “before” of this kitchen that felt so dark and heavy despite being pretty spacious. The Austin, TX homeowners were thrilled with the results.
Green cabinets in an East Austin bungalow
Hover for the “before” of this East Austin cabinet painting project in a bold deep green. The homeowner was thrilled to personalize her kitchen with her own fun, East Austin style. (We think the baby steals the show.)
Picking color is part of the excitement of cabinet painting or refinishing!
What should be the funnest part of a cabinet painting project, is often the most agonizing. Our True Colour Expert® color consultants do more than help you find a color you love. They’ll help ensure your new cabinet color blends well with your walls, counters, and backsplash, for a kitchen you’ll be proud of.
If the layout of your kitchen is fine, you don’t need the hassle or expense of a full remodel. Our expert cabinet refinishers can make even old, worn-out cabinets look like new, with a silky-smooth, gorgeous and durable finish, in a color that looks great in your space. And most kitchens take just a week or less!
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High-Gloss Walls and Hand-Painted Wallcoverings in a European-inspired Home
A Home Full of Sophistication, Color and Pattern
A Historic Bungalow’s Transformation, as seen on HGTV
From Outdated to Contemporary – an Updated Transitional Home
A Fresh White Home with High-Contrast Black Cabinetry
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Warm Textures and Colors Add a Rich, Organic Vibe
Upscale Student Residential Housing at UT Austin
Cabinet refinishing modernized this all-wood kitchen
Hover for the “before” of this two-tone kitchen in the Rollingwood area of Austin, TX. Quality cabinet refinishing modernized this kitchen with fresh, updated colors.
Finding the right cabinet painter will make your life easier
Don’t just pick any “cabinet painter near me”! The right cabinet painting experts will give you the freedom to sit back and enjoy the process of beautifying your home, without having to stress or micromanage.
We love making the magic happen!
In yet another Austin cabinet painting project where the homeowner invested a lot of love, we were delighted to help make their vision a beautiful reality. This is why we love what we do!
Customize your built-ins and bookshelves in your home bar, library, or office
Hover to see how this San Antonio homeowner transformed her home bar and lounge area by having Paper Moon paint the walls and custom built-ins in this rich, sophisticated green.
Our cabinet painters transformed this dark, outdated kitchen
Another great kitchen before-and-after! This kitchen in northwest Austin now feels fresh and open, thanks to the right paint color choices – navy for the island, and a soft white to go with the new backsplash.
Love your kitchen again!
Your kitchen is often the “home base” of a rich, full life filled with joy and connection. Let us help make it a place you love!
Want the details on our cabinet painting process? We’ve spent a lot of time perfecting our system of painting even old cabinets with a flawless, durable finish. Our top-rated, experienced cabinet painters fully disassemble your cabinets, do extensive prep work, use a heavy-bodied primer to fill any grain, and spray on your color using only the best products and equipment.
But it takes more than technical skill to transform your kitchen into a special and welcoming space you’ll be proud of. Our whole team at Paper Moon works with you to give you a great experience from start to finish.
We know tackling a home improvement project can be stressful. But updating your kitchen should be a fun and exciting process! And cabinet painting gives you the most bang for your buck, because your cabinets take up the most visual square footage in your space. Refinishing your cabinets has more impact on the look and feel of your kitchen than almost anything else.
With the right team behind you, you can update your kitchen into a space you’ll love, and have fun doing it. Take the first step, and schedule your estimate today!
We’re known for our top-notch interior and exterior home painting in Austin, San Antonio, and throughout Central Texas. We also do wallpaper installation or, if you need it, wallpaper removal. And we create gorgeous lime wash paint or plaster finishes as well. We’ll paint, limewash, plaster or wallpaper just about any surface in your home except the floors or countertops!
We use fast-drying lacquer for a smooth, durable, and easy-to-clean finish! Lacquer for cabinets can be tinted to any color and sheen you like, including matte, satin, and high-gloss finishes. And nothing beats its silky smoothness. We bring sample cabinet doors that we’ve painted to your estimate consultation, so you can see and feel their beauty for yourself.
We always remove the doors and drawers before painting cabinets! Leaving them in place would be a rookie mistake. There’s no way to get a clean, professional result if you’re trying to tape around the hinges and hardware to spray around them. And brushing or rolling the paint in place won’t yield that gorgeous smooth finish you expect from a professional cabinet painting company.
Most kitchen cabinet painting projects can be done in one week! Of course, if you have a particularly large kitchen or additional spaces like a butler’s pantry, it might take a few days more. But we’ve perfected our system to minimize the time needed to give your cabinets a beautiful factory finish, you can can back to a kitchen you’ll love as soon as possible.
Better your cabinets yourself is almost never a good idea, and takes far longer for the untrained individual than you’d expect. A typical kitchen contains more than 50 “pieces” – cabinet doors, drawer fronts, and shelves – that all must be taken down, hardware labeled and removed, and then processed. This includes thorough cleaning and sanding, two coats or primer on BOTH sides, filling any dings or cracks, and spraying two coats of color. All of this is done with spray equipment that takes practice to master. Not to mention properly masking off your kitchen itself to avoid any paint or overspray getting on your floors, counters, or appliances. Then once everything is sprayed and finished, it must be reassembled and all hardware put back in place. This is a serious undertaking that is not for the faint of heart, contrary to many click-bait reels and videos out there.
We explain more about why taking on cabinet painting as a DIY project is not the wisest choice in this post here!
Good, thorough prep is essential to make sure your beautiful new finish lasts for many years! This includes cleaning to remove any grease or oil residue, sanding and especially priming to ensure your fresh cabinet finish sticks to your cabinets properly. We use the right kind of primer for your cabinet type, including a heavy-bodied primer to fill the wood grain if you have oak or alder cabinets, to make sure your new finish is silky smooth with no visible grain afterwards. And of course we fill any cracks or dings in your cabinets during the priming stage, so that your freshly-painted cabinets look like new when done!
After nearly a decade of seeing many kitchen cabinets painted white, we’re now seeing a resurgence of color, either in rich, deep colors like greens, or soft, warm neutrals like creams, mushroom, or taupe colors. And of course a sophisticated black cabinet will never go out of style! We’ve listed our favorite black and green colors, and of course we always include a professional color consultation with every project, to find you just the right color that will work in your own home, with your existing countertops and backsplash. Whether you want a vibrant green, navy blue, perfect white, or soft cashmere color, we’ll help you find it!
This is a great question that often comes down to your existing kitchen layout and your home improvement budget. If your layout if awkward or no longer meets your needs, you might consider a full kitchen remodel, complete with new cabinets, countertops, backsplash, and even appliances. This is the priciest option, and will cost tens of thousands of dollars and cause some significant disruption in your home while work goes on. But if your existing layout works, there’s no need to rip out your entire kitchen. Replacing your cabinets would mean demolishing or removing the existing cabinets and counters. If your cabinets are sound and laid out well, painting them a fresh color is an excellent option, and will cost less than a third, on average, than getting new cabinets. Even grainy oak cabinets can be made to look like new with our cabinet painting system. And if your cabinet doors and drawers are in a style you no longer like, they can be replaced (often called “refacing” your cabinets) and the new doors and drawer fronts painted, together with your base cabinets, to completely transform your cabinet, for a fraction of the cost.
Make sure that your cabinet painter uses a quality cabinet paint such as lacquer, that they remove the doors and drawer fronts before painting, that they prime properly, and especially that they’ll spray your finish!! Anything less will result in a substandard finish that will look DIY or amateurish at best, and will flake off at worst. And of course you’ll want to make sure they are fully insured, including workman’s compensation, and have a solid reputation to stand by their work, for your own piece of mind. We explain more about how to find a great cabinet painter here.
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