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Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in Cheviot Hills

Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles

Forma Homes delivers cabinet painting & refinishing across Cheviot Hills and the surrounding westside neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Cheviot Hills remodeling — pre-war Spanish Revival estates and tree-lined blocks south of Pico.

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  • License #1140511
  • Licensed & Insured
  • Serving LA's Westside

What makes cabinet painting & refinishing different in Cheviot Hills

Cheviot Hills sits south of Pico between Beverly Hills and Culver City — old-growth-tree blocks of 1920s and 1930s Spanish Revival, English cottage, and Mediterranean homes. Most homes have original infrastructure that meets the era's code, not today's. Kitchen, bathroom, and whole-home remodels here typically open walls to entirely new electrical service, repipes, and HVAC that didn't exist when the home was built.

Most Cheviot Hills homes were built before 1980. That means galvanized supply lines, undersized electrical panels, original gas runs, and rough-in plumbing that hasn't been touched in decades. Once walls open during a cabinet painting & refinishing project, we expect to bring the underlying systems to current code — not as a surprise, as a plan.

Common architecture in Cheviot Hills: Spanish Colonial Revival, English Cottage, Mediterranean. We design westside renovations to honor what's already there while bringing systems and finishes up to current code and current standards.

What's Included

  • Professional deglossing and surface preparation
  • HVLP spray application — lacquer or conversion varnish
  • Custom color matching to any paint brand
  • Hardware removal and reinstallation
  • Hinge adjustment and replacement if needed
  • Interior shelf and cabinet box touch-up
  • Full masking and protection of surrounding surfaces
  • Final inspection and touch-up

Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in Cheviot Hills — Frequently Asked Questions

Most kitchens run 5 to 7 days. The doors come off and go to our shop for prep and spray. The boxes stay in place and get masked, primed, and sprayed in your kitchen. You'll lose the kitchen for the first day or two while we tape off and pull the doors. After that you can use it, you just won't have doors for about a week.

Conversion varnish for kitchens. It's harder, more chemical-resistant, and shrugs off the daily abuse from cleaning sprays, grease, and kids slamming doors. Lacquer is fine for bathrooms, built-ins, closets, anything that's not getting hit every day. Cost difference is small.

A standard kitchen runs $8K to $15K to refinish. New custom cabinets for the same kitchen run $25K to $60K+. So you're saving 50 to 70% and three months on the timeline. The catch: your boxes have to be solid. If they're particle board and falling apart, refinishing won't save them.

Yes if it's sprayed properly. Our finishes go on with HVLP guns, not brushes and rollers. Conversion varnish cures hard and resists chemicals. With normal use you should get 10 to 15 years before it needs a refresh. If we brushed and rolled it like a typical paint crew, you'd be lucky to get two.

Yes. Any Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, or Farrow & Ball color. We can also custom-match an existing cabinet finish if you want to blend new work with existing cabinetry in another room.

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