Any idea on what it would cost to get the cabinets in my kitchen painted? Uppers and lowers in a standard sized kitchen, nothing fancy or oversized. I don't really want to mess with doing it myself as I know it will take me forever, and is end up with the doors off for weeks on end with 3 kids under 3 running around. Recommendations in the Tomball area are also appreciated.

I would guess around $4,000 for a decent paint job. You could go higher and get a top end job or skimp a bit to have it take longer and be lower quality. Hard to say without seeing pictures.

I spent about $10k, but that included painting the rest of my house too. Used Certa Pro, can't complain one bit about them.

I think the cabinets were about half of that cost. We have a decent amount of cabinets, most of the cost seems to be in the prep work if I remember from talking with their foreman. Most importantly, the wife was and still is happy and the finish has held up well so far.

I was quoted about 2K to repaint my kitchen and laundry room. Decent size upper and lower the other day by a painter i have used in the past that does good work. (Out of state)

Money is in the prep work, using proper undercoats, deglossers if necessary, quality top coat, proper recoat times, etc etc. You can get them done cheap, but you likely wont like the finished product. Good painters are worth the money in my opinion

I was quoted around $3.5k from a one man shop and I have a pretty big kitchen + oversized island.
it's a ton of prep to do right. at least 5 days of work.

way easier in a remodel with fresh cabinets and no appliances etc

Copp said:

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Money is in the prep work, using proper undercoats, deglossers if necessary, quality top coat, proper recoat times, etc etc. You can get them done cheap, but you likely wont like the finished product. Good painters are worth the money in my opinion

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This.

Buddy of mine had their cabinets painted when they bought their new house. Apparently the painter didn't prep them worth a crap, less than a year in and the top coat was peeling.

Also if you do it right, the interior will be coated as well. It's a lot of surface area to prep. I think it took our painter about 5 or 6 days to finish ours out.

Copp said:

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Money is in the prep work, using proper undercoats, deglossers if necessary, quality top coat, proper recoat times, etc etc. You can get them done cheap, but you likely wont like the finished product. Good painters are worth the money in my opinion

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Absolutely this. I've bought two houses where someone painted/repainted the cabinets and it was always obvious the prep work was lacking. They would be halfway sticky, have brush marks or crap that wasn't cleaned adequately and sprayed on top of. I'm sure it looked great for the first year or so but went downhill quick.

My advice is to do your research, reach out to people who have used different contractors, go see their work, and be prepared to not accept anything other than your idea of perfect.

The entire painting industry, especially when painting cabinets, has somehow been able to lower the quality standard while increasing prices, and passing that lack of quality as normal or expected to the customer. We forced our new custom home builder to repaint our cabinets 2 times until we (the homeowner) had to fire the original painter. Then our builder found a new painter and paid for it, but it was no better than the first. At this point we became clients with unreasonable expectations. So we ended up finding a contractor that a well known Dallas home renovation blog uses and paid out of our pocket for their painter to do all our cabinets. We have cabinets in the kitchen, the mud room, the laundry room, the master closet, the master bath, the guest bath, the study, and the living room. A ton of cabinets! That cost us $13,000....but finally the paint job was acceptable but by no means perfect. When you have a perfectionist for a wife, this process can be maddening. We even toured a couple Cliff Lewis and Scott Lewis Homes in the Dallas area(really well known luxury home builders) and the paint was only marginally better than our original painter. We had drip marks, brush strokes, rough to the touch patches, globs in the corner trim, etc...and those $800k-$1 million homes had it all as well.

One thing I didn't think about when firing our builders original painter was the possibility that our builder would use that painter in the future to handle any new home warranty paint work. Yeah....he's been back to our house twice now to fix things (unrelated to cabinets) after he got fired from our job. That's super awkward.