Who does cabinet painting in Dunstable, MA?
EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. does cabinet painting & refinishing in Dunstable, MA, from Northborough, about 25.5 miles away. The median Dunstable home was built in 1985 and 38% predate 1980, so the preparation drives the price more than the square footage. One insured crew paints and replaces rotted wood on the same written estimate. Call (508) 466-5846.
What Dunstable houses are built out of — and why it changes the price
Dunstable has about 1,150 homes across 16.5 square miles of Middlesex County, and the median one was built in 1985. That makes it a largely late-eighties and nineties town: larger colonials with vinyl siding, finger-jointed pine trim, and two-storey entries. 38% of the housing here went up before 1980 and 98% of the buildings are detached single-family homes.
That is not trivia. It decides which products go on the wall, how many hours the preparation takes, and whether the job is governed by the federal lead rule. An estimate for cabinet painting & refinishing that does not start from the age of the house is a guess with a number attached.
Cabinet Painting & Refinishing on a late-eighties and nineties house
Thermofoil and MDF doors
Many nineties kitchens use a vinyl-wrapped MDF door rather than wood. Where the foil has lifted at a corner — usually next to the oven — painting it will not stick it back down, and the honest answer is that those doors need replacing while the boxes get finished.
Builder oak, and what filling it costs
Golden oak with a visible grain was the standard fit. It can be painted to look like modern flat cabinetry, but only with grain filling, and that is a real line on the estimate rather than something to be discovered halfway through.
Off-site spraying and a working kitchen
Doors and drawer fronts come off, get sprayed away from the house, and go back; frames are finished in place with the room contained. It means a kitchen missing its doors for a few days, which is better than a week of not being able to use it at all.
Free on-site estimate in Dunstable, with the prep itemized rather than assumed.
What is included
- Kitchen cabinet doors, drawer fronts and boxes
- Bathroom vanities and linen cabinets
- Built-ins, bookcases and window seats
- Islands and pantry doors
- Interior of cabinet boxes on request
- Hardware removal, labeling and reinstallation
- New knobs and pulls installed
- Coordinated wall and trim color
How far Dunstable is
Dunstable is about 25.5 miles from Northborough — about an hour out, which is toward the edge of where we work. We come out here for full exteriors, whole-house interiors and carpentry that is worth a crew's week — not for a single bedroom, because the drive would cost you more than the painting. The estimate is still free, and if the job is too small to be worth your money we will say so on the phone.
Written, itemized, fixed price. Nothing discovered in week three.
The rest of what we do in Dunstable
- Interior Painting in Dunstable
- Exterior Painting in Dunstable
- Light Carpentry & Wood Repair in Dunstable
- Power Washing & Deck Staining in Dunstable
Or see everything on the Dunstable page, and the full cabinet painting & refinishing page for how we work generally.
Cabinet Painting in nearby towns
Tyngsborough · Pepperell · Groton · Westford · Ayer · Chelmsford