Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in Woodstock, GA

Cabinet Painting & Refinishing for Woodstock homes

The core of the stock is the Towne Lake build-out that began in the late 1980s: Eagle Watch, developed by Arvida around an Arnold Palmer golf course and filled in through the early 1990s, then Towne Lake Hills around the Arthur Hills course that opened in 1994, with Wyngate, Rose Creek and the rest following. These are mostly two-story traditional houses, often brick or stone on the front with lap siding on the sides and rear, set on rolling, wooded ground that drains toward Noonday Creek and the Little River arm of the lake. That grade is why so many have full or partial basements, some daylight or walkout, a lot of them still unfinished, and why tall rear decks are common. Downtown is the other end of the range: the Dean House from 1875, the 1894 Century House and early-1900s frame houses along streets like Rope Mill Road, now ringed by the townhomes and small-lot houses of the newer downtown build-out. The old houses mean wood clapboard, plaster and old paint layers; the new ones mean early repaints and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Woodstock

• Downtown Woodstock
• Towne Lake
• Eagle Watch
• Towne Lake Hills
• Wyngate
• Rose Creek

Near Elm Street Cultural Arts Village (Woodstock Arts), Olde Rope Mill Park, Dupree Park and across the rest of Woodstock.

Cabinet Painting & Refinishing on Woodstock houses

Woodstock has a lot of kitchens from the Towne Lake build-out that still wear their original cabinets: oak or a builder maple with the honey-toned finish and cathedral or raised-panel doors of the early 1990s. The boxes are usually solid enough to keep, which makes painting a fair alternative to tearing them out. The work is mostly prep: decades of cooking residue around the range, a factory topcoat that new paint will not grip without scuffing and a bonding primer, and open oak grain that shows through paint unless it is filled. The newer downtown townhomes have flat-panel builder doors in good shape whose owners simply want a different color, which is a lighter job. Bathroom vanities and basement bar cabinets from the same houses often get folded into one project.

What usually gets missed

Oak grain is the decision that gets skipped. Paint over open oak and every pore shows through the finish, which some owners like and many do not expect. If a smooth look is the goal, the grain gets filled before priming, and that adds time to the schedule. The other trap is grease on the doors beside the range hood and along the upper edges; primer laid over it peels in sheets. We degrease and test adhesion on a hidden door before the whole kitchen goes to spray.