Cabinet Painting & Refinishing – Daly City, CA

We work on kitchen uppers and lowers, bath vanities, and any built-in shelving or storage. In Daly City's Westlake row houses, the kitchen is usually a galley or L-shape with upper and lower banks and limited counter run — a manageable scope for refinishing. Bathroom vanities in these homes are often original single-sink units with dated finishes. We refinish both. If there's a laundry room with painted utility cabinets, we can include those in the same project.

We remove all doors and drawers, label hardware for exact reinstall, and sand and degloss the box frames in place with dust containment set up around the work area. Doors are sprayed off-site or in a mobile booth for a flat, factory-level finish — brush marks don't show up that way. We use SW Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel or BM Advance as top coats, with INSL-X Cabinet Coat bonding primer on any slick or previously coated surfaces. Daly City's persistent marine layer and fog mean we extend dry time between coats — rushing cure in high-humidity air leads to adhesion problems down the line. Pre-1978 homes follow EPA RRP lead-paint protocol before any sanding.

Satin is the standard call for kitchen cabinets — low-sheen enough to hide minor imperfections, easy to wipe down. Semi-gloss works well for bath vanities. Daly City's foggy, overcast light doesn't flatter stark bright whites the way inland sun does — warm whites, soft greiges, and light grays tend to read better in these kitchens. We'll review color direction with you at the estimate if helpful.

Door and drawer count is the main variable in a Westlake galley — you may have 10–14 doors and 6–8 drawers, which is a manageable scope. Laminate or thermofoil fronts add prep steps because the surface needs mechanical scuffing or chemical deglossing before primer bonds. A color change from a dark factory finish to a light color adds a primer coat. Pre-1978 lead-paint scope adds to prep time. Hardware replacement versus retention also affects the total.

We've refinished original 1960s kitchen cabinets in Westlake row houses where the factory white had yellowed and worn through at the door edges — full degloss, bonding primer, two sprayed finish coats, and the cabinets looked clean again without any box replacement. We've also done bath vanities in the same homes where the laminate finish had separated at the corner joints, which we addressed before priming.