Kitchen cabinet refinishing in Nashville
Alan Robinson Painting offers kitchen cabinet painting across Nashville's neighborhoods, from original cabinets in Sylvan Park bungalows to mid-century kitchens in Crieve Hall and big islands in Green Hills. Alan Robinson, a Nashville oil painter and muralist founded the company in 2007, and his eye for color is the standard behind every kitchen we paint.
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Nextdoor Neighborhood FavoriteOur cabinet refinishing is a sprayed, painted finish on the cabinets already in your kitchen, not a strip-and-stain and not new doors. When a kitchen needs refacing or replacement instead of paint, we tell you before you spend anything.
Nashville homeowners want a kitchen that feels current and cheerful while keeping the character that drew them to the house in the first place. A painted finish does both, and our cabinet painters get to bring it to a century of kitchens: a narrow galley in a bungalow near Belmont, a knotty-pine kitchen in a ranch off Hillwood Boulevard and a sprawling island in a Forest Hills new build, each with its own preparation and color. It's the variety we love about painting homes throughout Nashville.
Refinishing sits between doing nothing and a full remodel. Refacing hides the existing boxes behind new veneer and new doors, and replacement brings in all-new cabinetry, often with new counters. Painting keeps your doors, drawers and frames, original or not, and gives them a new color and a harder surface, which in an older house often means keeping cabinetry you simply couldn't buy today. If you're weighing a remodel, the cabinet options guide compares all four approaches.
Carrying a new finish from the kitchen into a bungalow's linen closet or a ranch's paneled den ties a Nashville house together, so every room feels as cared for as the one you cook in.
Kitchen cabinet painting gives the most-used room in the house a new character while the counters, tile and floor plan stay put. The doors, drawer fronts and face frames all take the color, so even a modest galley can look intentional and bright.
In the larger kitchens of Green Hills and Forest Hills, an island can take a deep color or a glaze while the perimeter stays pale. Older homes near West End sometimes keep a butler's pantry or china cabinet worth highlighting in a color of its own.
A painted vanity brings a bath in step with the rest of the house without new tile, and in an older Nashville house it can be the easiest way to make a bathroom feel cared for. The enamel is chosen for steam and splashes.
Laundry closets in bungalows and mudrooms in newer infill homes both collect cabinetry that gets little attention. Giving it the same enamel as the kitchen costs little extra effort and makes the everyday corners of the house feel finished.
Original built-in bookcases and china cupboards are part of what people love about older Nashville homes. Professional cabinet painting takes its time with every shelf edge and glass-door muntin, and that patience shows when the room is done.
Mid-century dens often have a built-in desk or a paneled wall of cabinets, and newer homes have media walls. Professional cabinet painters can fold them into the same project so the whole ground floor reads as one palette.
“At the end of the project, he did a walk-through of the whole property with us to make sure everything was up to our satisfaction.”
Every era of Nashville kitchen has something worth keeping, and the right finish lets that character shine while making the room feel new.
In Sylvan Park, Belmont-Hillsboro and Richland-West End, some early kitchens still have original cabinets or cupboards, often under several coats of old paint that may include lead. That calls for careful sanding with the room contained and cleaned as we go, and for keeping period details like beadboard and glass doors intact. More finished work is in our project gallery.
Ranches in Crieve Hall, West Meade and Hillwood often have solid wood cabinets and a paneled den with built-ins in the same wood. Painting them keeps the good bones of the house and lets a lighter or bolder color bring those rooms into the present.
Newer and rebuilt homes in Green Hills and Forest Hills tend to have long runs of cabinetry and a large island that anchors an open plan. Across that much surface, an even sheen matters, and the island color has to work with the family room beyond it, which is why we plan it alongside the wall colors of a Nashville interior.
It begins with a look at the cabinets in person. Together we check the doors, the wood or material, the finish on it now and the hinges, then talk through color before writing an itemized estimate.
Floors, counters and appliances are protected. Professional cabinet painting starts the same way every time: every cabinet surface is degreased, then scuff-sanded to degloss it, with older painted layers handled carefully.
Doors and drawer fronts are removed and tagged by location, and hinges and pulls are stored together. Old paint drips and chips are smoothed and oak grain can be filled on request.
A bonding primer goes on before a hard cabinet enamel, applied in thin coats and brushed or sprayed depending on the doors and the finish you choose.
Doors are rehung once they can be handled, though the enamel keeps curing for a while afterward. Then we walk the kitchen with you and look closely at each door and drawer.
There's more about our cabinet painting work around Middle Tennessee.
Alan and his team did a wonderful job with our cabinet repainting project. We did both the kitchen and master bath. They also repaired some various wall damage from our pups. They are very respectful in your home. I work from home and they were great to accommodate.
Absolutely amazing! We kept putting off getting this done after trouble with another company years before in painting our deck. Wish we would have used Alan from the start. Our kitchen cabinets look beautiful after years of chipping and hard to clean surfaces. Very professional and thorough in his work.
Alan Robinson did an exceptional job painting my home, and his work on my kitchen cabinets deserves special praise. What started as basic builder-grade cabinetry now looks like elegant, custom-made pieces thanks to the beautiful glaze and meticulous finish he applied. The transformation is stunning.
Alan is professional, punctual, and incredibly detail-oriented. He took the time to understand my vision, offered thoughtful suggestions, and delivered results that exceeded my expectations. His lines are clean, his finishes are smooth, and he treats your home with respect—keeping everything tidy throughout the project.
If you’re looking for someone who combines skill, artistry, and reliability, I highly recommend Alan. My home looks better than ever, and the cabinets alone make the entire space feel elevated.
Alan has done numerous painting projects and handiwork projects for me over the years! He’s always shows up when he says he will and communicates very well. He always protected the space well and his cleanup is emaculate. His trim lines have been perfectly straight and clean. He’s a great artist too!
Nashville kitchens range from a handful of doors to dozens, so each one is priced on its own. These six factors matter most, and your written estimate itemizes them. Our guide to cabinet painting prices by kitchen size collects the ranges other companies publish.
A galley and a Green Hills island kitchen differ mostly here, since each piece is finished individually.
Islands add panels; open shelving and glass-front uppers make the interiors part of the job.
Old painted layers, knotty pine or a slick factory finish each change the preparation.
Two colors or a hand glaze take more steps than one color throughout.
Vintage hardware can be cleaned and reused; new sizes may mean filling and redrilling.
Baths, laundry closets and den built-ins add scope and share the kitchen's visit.
The package you choose is one of the biggest factors in cost. Signature, our standard service, includes the full preparation cabinets need for a durable finish; Refresh is our budget-friendly option for a quick update; Concierge adds full project management. Every package carries our five-year workmanship warranty. See the cabinet painting packages for Nashville homes.
Doing cabinets right costs more than a quick spray because the prep is most of the job, and the prep is why the finish lasts. Pay for your project in fixed monthly payments through Acorn Finance. Check your options in about a minute; it won’t affect your credit score.How financing worksCheck your options (opens Acorn Finance in a new tab) can turn that into fixed monthly payments; checking your options takes about a minute and won’t affect your credit score.
A few things Nashville homeowners ask before we start.
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From bungalow kitchens in Sylvan Park, 12South and Hillsboro Village to ranches in Crieve Hall and Oak Hill and the larger homes of Green Hills and Forest Hills, every Nashville kitchen gets preparation suited to its age and the cabinetry in it.
We paint all over Nashville, from 37201, 37203, 37204, 37208, 37209, 37210 and 37211 to 37212, 37215, 37218, 37219, 37220 and 37228.
New cabinets tend to put other projects on the list.
Our cabinet work continues just beyond the city's neighborhoods.
