Kitchen Cabinet Painting Melbourne

Repainting kitchen cabinets is the highest-impact, lowest-cost way to refresh a tired Melbourne kitchen. New joinery runs into the tens of thousands once doors, carcasses, benchtops and installation are added up, while a professional respray of the doors, drawer fronts and end panels you already have typically lands between $2,500 and $6,500. Modernize Solutions has painted Melbourne kitchens as part of interior work since 1987, from 1990s laminate kitchens in the western suburbs to original timber cabinetry in Edwardian homes, and the same rule applies to all of them: the preparation decides how long the finish lasts, not the colour.

Kitchen cupboards are the hardest-working painted surface in any home. They are grabbed, wiped, splashed and steamed every day, and they carry an invisible film of cooking grease that stops paint bonding. Our process starts with a full sugar-soap degrease and a sand to create a key on every surface. Laminate and melamine doors then get a dedicated adhesion primer made for slick, non-porous surfaces, the single step most failed DIY cabinet jobs skip. Doors and drawer fronts are removed, labelled and sprayed with a hard-wearing Dulux cabinet enamel for a smooth, factory-like finish with no brush marks, then rehung once cured. Fixed frames are brushed and rolled with the same enamel where masking makes spraying impractical.

Cabinet painting is quoted per door and drawer front after an on-site count, because two kitchens with the same footprint can have wildly different door counts. That count goes into a fixed written quote, the price quoted is the price you pay. A typical kitchen takes three to five working days, benchtops, splashbacks, floors and appliances stay masked throughout, and the kitchen remains usable for most of the job. If the carcasses are swollen or water-damaged we will tell you straight that a respray is not the right fix, honest advice costs nothing and it is how a painting business keeps trading for more than three decades.