Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting in Uptown

Cabinet specialists who understand an Uptown kitchen

Uptown holds one of the densest and most varied sets of early-twentieth-century housing in Chicago, most of it built between about 1900 and 1935 when the elevated line touched off an apartment-building boom. You find greystone two- and three-flats and single-family greystones, the U-shaped brick courtyard buildings that Uptown is known for, classic walk-ups and six-flats, frame and brick workers cottages and Queen Anne houses in Sheridan Park, Prairie School mansions along Hutchinson Street, and Art Deco and Beaux-Arts lakefront high-rises and apartment-hotels, with modern condos layered along the lake.

That range shapes the cabinetry. The vintage courtyard, walk-up, and apartment-hotel condos have often been gut-rehabbed or deconverted, carrying everything from slab doors to 1980s and 1990s oak. The greystones and Prairie houses tend toward stained trim and older wood cabinetry that has fallen out of trend. Either way, these are strong candidates for a painted Shaker, a refaced slab, or another clean, current style. Across all of it, the boxes are usually solid, which makes this painting, refacing, and refinishing territory rather than tear-out territory.

When we take on an Uptown kitchen, whether it is a courtyard-building condo or a Hutchinson Street home, we bring the same in-house finishing and design-first approach, and we handle the logistics your building or association requires, from the certificate of insurance to reserving the freight elevator. We have refaced worn doors into a clean, current style, repainted face-frame cabinets so they read brand new, and brought dated oak back to something warm and intentional.