New Orleans Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting in New Orleans, LA for residential and commercial properties across Greater New Orleans. Cabinet refacing, refinishing, and painting are three routes to the same destination, and which one suits your kitchen depends on the condition of the boxes rather than on how tired the doors look. We assess the carcasses first and tell you honestly which route makes sense, including the times when the answer is none of them.
Refacing keeps the existing boxes and replaces everything you see: new doors, new drawer fronts, new hardware, and matching wood veneer or laminate on the face frames and exposed end panels.
Done properly it is hard to tell from new cabinetry, and it typically costs a third to a half of replacement, roughly $4,000 to $10,000 for an average kitchen against $15,000 and up for custom. The precondition is sound boxes.
If they are plywood, square, and the layout already works for how you cook, refacing is often the smartest money in the whole remodel.
Here is the local catch. A sink base that has been quietly damp for years is common in this city, and swollen particleboard cannot be saved by better doors.
We pull the toe kick, check the deck and the back corners, and look for the tell-tale sponginess before we quote anything.
Sometimes the honest answer is to rebuild the two wet base cabinets and reface the other fourteen, which is a perfectly good plan and a lot cheaper than a full kitchen.
Refinishing keeps your existing doors and takes them back to bare wood, or scuffs and recoats them, then applies new stain or clear. It suits solid wood doors with good profiles that have simply gone dull, orange, or worn at the handle. It does not suit thermofoil or laminate, because there is no wood to refinish, and anyone promising otherwise is going to disappoint you.
Painting is the highest-impact option and the most abused one in the trade.
A properly painted kitchen is degreased, sanded, primed with a bonding primer, and sprayed with catalyzed conversion varnish or a comparable post-catalyzed product, doors off, labeled, and sprayed flat in a controlled booth.
That is a different product from wall paint brushed on in place, which is what most cheap kitchen painting actually is, and why it peels off the door edges inside a year.
Humidity is also why we spray in the shop rather than in your kitchen: cure time and film quality both suffer in damp air.
While the doors are off we fix the things that make a kitchen feel new rather than merely repainted — soft-close hinges, full-extension undermount slides, roll-out shelves in the deep base cabinets, and current pulls drilled from a template. Most refacing jobs run about a week on site, and the kitchen stays usable for most of it.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — moisture-resistant plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, full-overlay and inset doors, framed and frameless European construction, catalyzed conversion varnish — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve New Orleans and nearby communities including Metairie, Kenner, Marrero, Terrytown.
What We Handle
Everything our cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting in New Orleans covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting work in New Orleans, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- cabinet refacing
- cabinet refinishing
- cabinet painting
- new doors and drawer fronts
- veneer refacing
- cabinet door replacement
- spray-finished cabinets
- conversion varnish refinishing
- kitchen cabinet makeover
- hardware and hinge upgrades
- cabinet color change
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our New Orleans services.
Materials, equipment and how we do cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting
The difference between cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting that lasts and cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with moisture-resistant plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, full-overlay and inset doors, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every New Orleans job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of cabinet work in Greater New Orleans means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting outside New Orleans
New Orleans Elite Cabinets covers New Orleans and the surrounding communities of Greater New Orleans. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Metairie, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 143,507
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Kenner, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 66,448
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Marrero, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 32,382
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Terrytown, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 25,278
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Harvey, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 22,236
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Estelle, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 17,952
Start on the New Orleans Elite Cabinets homepage for a free estimate, or call (833) 632-3603 and describe the job.
Why New Orleans Chooses New Orleans Elite Cabinets
- ✓Over 15 years building custom cabinetry across Greater New Orleans
- ✓3/4-inch moisture-resistant furniture-grade plywood boxes, never particleboard
- ✓Solid maple dovetail drawers on full-extension Blum undermount slides
- ✓Catalyzed conversion varnish sprayed in our own booth, not brushed on site
The standards behind cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting work we do in New Orleans follows published industry standards: KCMA runs the ANSI/KCMA A161.1 cabinet performance certification, and National Kitchen & Bath Association publishes the kitchen planning guidelines. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting project in New Orleans gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (833) 632-3603 for a free cabinet refacing, refinishing & painting free estimate in New Orleans, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.