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.