# Meriden Cabinet Refinishing | Gagnon Painting

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Last updated: 2026-09-10T00:18:26.756Z

> Kitchen and bath cabinet refinishing in Meriden, CT. Refinishing since 1995, warrantied against flaking and peeling. Call 860-793-2200.

## Cabinet Refinishing in Meriden, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has been refinishing cabinets since 1995. Refinishing existing cabinets can save thousands compared with the cost of new ones, and our finish is warrantied against flaking and peeling.

Meriden is a good candidate city for it: 60.1% of its housing is owner-occupied and 75.4% of it was built in 1979 or earlier, which is the combination that produces long-held homes with dated kitchens and sound cabinetry.

## How do I know whether to refinish or replace?

Look at the boxes, not the doors. Doors are what you have stopped liking; the carcasses are what you would actually be paying to replace. If the boxes are sound, square and in a layout that works, refinishing keeps them and spends your money on the surface — which is the part that has aged.

The honest arguments for replacement are structural or practical rather than cosmetic. Bases that have been wet and swollen. Hinges and runners failing across the entire run rather than in one or two places. Or a layout that genuinely does not work for how you use the kitchen, in which case no finish will fix it and you should not spend money pretending otherwise.

We will tell you which of those we are looking at. A warrantied finish applied to a cabinet that needed replacing is bad for you and bad for the warranty.

One local point: the EPA's lead rule turns on homes built before 1978, which is a different line from the 1979-or-earlier bracket the census figures above use. Where a Meriden kitchen sits in a pre-1978 home, cabinet work that disturbs surrounding painted surfaces falls under that rule. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, so it is planned in rather than discovered.

## Meriden cabinet refinishing questions

## Thinking about your Meriden kitchen?

Call for a free estimate and a written summary quote on your first visit.