Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in Westwood
Westwood, Los Angeles
Forma Homes delivers cabinet painting & refinishing across Westwood and the surrounding westside neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Westwood remodeling — Holmby Westwood, Westwood Hills, and the streets around the Village.
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- Serving LA's Westside
What makes cabinet painting & refinishing different in Westwood
Westwood's residential streets sit south of UCLA and east of the 405. The Westwood Hills and Holmby Westwood blocks carry pre-war estates with original lath-and-plaster, single-pane windows, and undersized electrical service. Closer to the Village, post-war traditionals and a few mid-century moderns dominate. Most kitchens and bathrooms in Westwood need full MEP rework when remodeled — code-compliance is the floor, not the ceiling.
Most Westwood 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 Westwood: Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor, Traditional. 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 Westwood — 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.
Cabinet Painting & Refinishing Near Westwood
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Other Forma Homes Services in Westwood
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