Can I Use My Kitchen During Cabinet Painting?
Can I use my kitchen during cabinet painting? We get asked this often enough that we wanted to answer this question in detail. Professional painters like us want their clients to feel at ease when they’re in the middle of a painting project. After all, we know that just about any part of a remodel […]
How a Color Consultant Can Save your Project
Before I got trained as a color consultant, I used to stress over picking paint colors. I’d come home from the paint store with ziploc bags full of paint chips. No such thing as too many choices, right? Somewhere among all those paint chips would be the perfect color, the one that would make […]
Will I Still See the Grain on Painted Cabinets?
Homeowners ask me all the time if they’ll still see the grain on painted cabinets, or whether they should just tear the old cabinets out and start fresh. Whether or not you’ll still see the grain is probably the number one factor that determines which direction their kitchen improvement project will take. If you have […]
Should I Paint my Kitchen Cabinets Myself?
As a lover and purveyor of interior design on a dime, I’ve wondered, “Should I paint my kitchen cabinets myself?” I’m always looking for inspiration and how-to’s on just about any interior design or home improvement topic, and I have to admit the amount of “Professional DIYers” I follow on Instagram is astronomical. The tufted […]
Painting Cabinets – How the Pros do it
Painting cabinets is a pretty tempting DIY project. How do the pros do it? I remember looking at my hideous pickled-oak cabinets and thinking, “I should just paint those! I’ve got time, how hard can it be?” I used to be pretty handy back in the day, and I’d try household projects all the […]
How to Pick the Right White Kitchen Paint Color
If you want a fresh, white kitchen, selecting the right white kitchen paint color for your walls or cabinets can be massively frustrating! After all, there are hundreds of whites out there, in all variations of undertones: blue-whites, yellow-whites, pink-whites. Navigating undertones is tricky, but if just need a little guidance to make the […]
How Much Does It Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets?
What does kitchen cabinet painting cost? We sat down with our San Antonio team to discuss our painting process and estimate some ballpark figures based on a small, medium, and large set of kitchen cabinets. You can view our video, or just read on! Let’s start by covering some of the benefits of hiring […]
Updating a Tuscan Brown Home? Here are 6 Tips
If you’re ready to start updating your Tuscan brown home, where do you begin? What will have the most impact immediately? Do you start with painting the walls? (Not a bad plan!) New rugs? Furniture?? Moving out of the Dark Ages (the “Brown Phase”) actually starts with decluttering! Because most homes designed during the […]
Painting Kitchen Cabinets: Before, or After Changing the Counters and Backsplash?
We’re often asked whether we recommend painting kitchen cabinets before or after the new countertops and backsplash are installed. You might be worried about damaging the freshly-painted cabinets during new counter or tile installation. But maybe you’re itching for an updated kitchen NOW – we’ve all been there! – and want to get the painting done, at […]
