Plenty of Tampa homeowners searching for cabinet painting have a kitchen that a paint job genuinely serves. Plenty of others are about to spend real money coating boxes that are already failing. The difference is worth five minutes of honesty before you spend anything.
The Test: Open a Base Cabinet and Look
Painting rewards a kitchen where the structure is sound and only the finish is tired. Check the boxes where they fail first: under the sink for water swelling, the bottom edges of doors for delamination, the hinges for sag, the drawer slides for grind. Solid oak and maple builder cabinets from the 1990s and 2000s, common across Westchase, Carrollwood, and New Tampa, usually pass this test, and a sprayed coat of paint modernizes them for less than replacement.
If your kitchen fails the test, paint is a bandage on a structural problem. Swollen particle board does not un-swell under a new color. A layout with a dead corner and three cabinets you cannot reach stays that way in any color. That is the kitchen where replacement wins.
What Each Path Costs and Who Does It
Painting is not our trade. Our sister company, Westchase Painting Company, sprays cabinets as part of a painting business that carries a 5.0 Google rating, and if paint is your answer, that is the honest referral and we make it.
New cabinets are our whole business, and the price is public: up to 15 new cabinets for $5,497 installed, soft-close on every door and drawer, basic pulls included, sales tax paid. For reference, the boxes alone in a typical 15-cabinet kitchen list for $6,929 at the manufacturer’s published prices before delivery, assembly, install, or tax; the full book is on our catalogue and pricing page. Paint refreshes the cabinets you have. That number replaces them outright.
Get the Straight Answer Free
Ask for the estimate and we look at your actual boxes in your actual kitchen. If they deserve paint, we say paint and hand you to the painters. If they are done, you get the written $5,497 number and a 2-to-3-day install once the cabinets arrive. Either way you leave with a real answer instead of a pitch.
Get your free estimate, or start with the gallery to see what the replacement looks like in real Tampa homes.
