# Wallingford Cabinet Refinishing | Gagnon

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T22:42:40.733Z

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

## Cabinet Refinishing in Wallingford, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has been refinishing cabinets since 1995. Wallingford is a strong candidate town for it: 72.8% of the housing is owner-occupied, and long-held homes are exactly where dated-but-sound kitchens accumulate.

Refinishing can save thousands against the cost of new cabinets, and our finish is warrantied against flaking and peeling.

## What are we usually refinishing in a Wallingford kitchen?

Solid mid-century cabinetry, most of the time. The town's housing peaks hard in the post-war decades — 4,254 units built in the 1940s and 50s, and further large cohorts through the 60s and 70s — so the typical Wallingford kitchen we are asked to refinish is original or near-original cabinetry from that period.

That is good news. Cabinetry of that era is usually solid stock with straightforward slab or simple raised-panel doors, built before the industry moved to thin veneers over particle board. It takes a finish well, and the flat door profiles common in capes and ranches are among the easiest surfaces to get a genuinely smooth result on.

The things that argue against refinishing are the same everywhere: bases that have been wet, hinges failing across the whole run, or a layout that does not work. We will say so if that is what we find.

Where the kitchen sits in a home built before 1978 — and 58.8% of Wallingford's housing dates from 1979 or earlier — cabinet work that disturbs painted surfaces falls under the EPA's lead-safe rules. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm.

## Wallingford cabinet refinishing questions

## Thinking about your Wallingford kitchen?

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