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Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets Professionally: 2026 Data & Averages

Cost to Paint Kitchen Cabinets Professionally: 2026 Data & Averages The cost to paint kitchen cabinets professionally in 2026 is $2,000-$6,500 for a typical kitchen, or $30-$60 per linear foot brushed and $40-$100 per linear foot sprayed. Priced by the door, painters charge $90-$175 per cabinet door and $30-$50 per drawer front. Labor drives 70-85% of that quote, which is why the painter you hire matters far more than the paint that goes on. Estimate your exact job with our Cabinet Painting Cost Calculator(/construction/cabinet-painting-cost-calculator) before you collect a single bid. Three real kitchens make the spread concrete: a 15-foot galley in Texas that came in at $2,400, a 25-foot shaker kitchen in Ohio at $4,200, and a 35-foot laminate U-shape in California that hit $11,000. Same job description, wildly different numbers. The Texas galley was solid wood with light prep; the California kitchen needed bonding primer on every thermofoil door...