Cincinnati & the West Side
New cabinets or refinished ones, new flooring, new countertops, and the finish work done properly. We have been remodeling and painting Cincinnati homes for over ten years, and we tell you honestly which option gives you the kitchen you want for the budget you have.
Most kitchens we work on in Cincinnati fall into one of three jobs. Knowing which one you actually need is the difference between spending four thousand dollars and spending thirty, and it is the first thing we work out when we come and look.
The layout works and the cabinet boxes are sound. We refinish the cabinets, replace the hardware, paint the walls and ceiling, and often put down new flooring. This is the job that surprises people most, because a kitchen can look completely new without a single cabinet being torn out.
Cabinets are water damaged, sagging or dated beyond refinishing. We remove and replace the cabinetry and countertops, update the flooring, and handle the paint and trim so the room reads as one finished space rather than new boxes in an old room.
The layout itself is the problem: a wall in the wrong place, no island, nowhere to stand while someone else cooks. The largest job, and the one that needs the most planning. We will be straight with you about the timeline before you commit.
This is the question that decides your budget. Cabinet refinishing keeps the existing boxes and gives the doors and frames a new finish. It takes a few days rather than a few weeks, costs a fraction of replacement, and in a kitchen with solid wood cabinets the result is genuinely hard to tell from new.
Replacement makes sense when the boxes themselves are failing, when the layout needs to change, or when the existing cabinets are a laminate that will not hold a new finish. We will tell you which one you are looking at when we see the kitchen. We would rather do an honest refinish you are happy with than sell you a replacement you did not need.
We install new flooring as part of the remodel, which matters more than it sounds: flooring installed before cabinets, or after, changes how the finished edges look and how easily an appliance can be replaced later. Doing floors and cabinets as one job avoids the mismatched thresholds you see when two contractors work months apart.
Countertops, backsplash tile, trim, caulking and paint are where a remodel either looks finished or looks nearly finished. Because we came up as painters, the finish work is the part we are strictest about — clean lines where cabinets meet wall, no gaps at the trim, and a paint job that holds up to kitchen heat and steam.
Those are the ranges we actually see, not best cases. If something will take longer we say so before you commit, and if we hit a delay you hear it from us rather than noticing it.
Every kitchen is different, so we do not publish one price — a cabinet refinish and a full replacement are not the same job. What we will say is that we price fairly for Cincinnati, the estimate is in writing before any work starts, and we do not add costs later unless something genuinely unexpected turns up behind a cabinet. If that happens you hear about it before we proceed, not afterwards on the invoice.
Our shop is on Leona Drive, so most of our work is on the West Side and close by. We are in Covedale, Cheviot, Bridgetown, Green Township, Colerain Township, Westwood and Delhi Township most weeks, and we know the housing stock there well — the older Covedale and Cheviot homes in particular, where plaster walls and original trim need a different approach from newer construction.
We also work across the rest of Cincinnati including Madeira, Indian Hill, Kenwood, Hyde Park, Oakley, Mariemont and Anderson Township, and across the river in Florence, Kentucky.
Free in-home estimate, honest advice on refinishing versus replacing, and a written price before any work starts.