Who does cabinet painting in Shirley, MA?
EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. does cabinet painting & refinishing in Shirley, MA, from Northborough, about 17.3 miles away. The median Shirley home was built in 1977 and 53% 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 Shirley houses are built out of — and why it changes the price
Shirley has about 2,566 homes across 15.8 square miles of Middlesex County, and the median one was built in 1977. That makes it a largely seventies and early-eighties town: splits, raised ranches and garrison colonials, with rough-sawn cedar or T1-11 plywood siding and the first generation of pressure-treated decks. 53% of the housing here went up before 1980 and 81% 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 seventies and early-eighties house
Oil varnish and dark stain
The signature kitchen of this era is solid wood under a heavy oil varnish. It takes a modern finish beautifully and only after proper de-glossing and a bonding primer — the varnish is harder than the paint going over it and nothing keys to it otherwise.
Open grain will show
Oak from this period has a deep, open grain that reads straight through paint. Filling it to a smooth modern finish is real extra work and changes the price; leaving it is a legitimate choice and looks like painted oak. Either is fine, and you should be told which you are buying.
Hinges that no longer exist
Cabinet hardware from the seventies is often no longer made. Whether it comes off and goes back on, or whether the doors need drilling for modern hinges, is worth settling before anything is taken apart.
Free on-site estimate in Shirley, with the prep itemized rather than assumed.
Lead paint in Shirley
About 53% of Shirley's homes predate 1980, so on most jobs here the age of the house decides how the work runs before anything else does. Federal law treats housing built before 1978 as lead-bearing, and disturbing paint in one means contained prep, HEPA extraction and wet methods rather than dry scraping. It is slower and it is not optional. Ask any contractor bidding your job how they intend to handle it — the answer tells you a great deal.
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 Shirley is
Shirley is about 17.3 miles from Northborough — about 35–45 minutes out. That is a normal working distance for us and it is free to have someone come and look. The crew is on site for a full day rather than dropping in, which suits whole rooms and whole elevations better than an hour of touch-up.
Written, itemized, fixed price. Nothing discovered in week three.
The rest of what we do in Shirley
- Interior Painting in Shirley
- Exterior Painting in Shirley
- Light Carpentry & Wood Repair in Shirley
- Power Washing & Deck Staining in Shirley
Or see everything on the Shirley page, and the full cabinet painting & refinishing page for how we work generally.