What we do

Kitchen Cabinet Refacing

Refacing keeps the cabinet boxes and replaces everything you touch — doors, drawer fronts, hinges — then veneers the exposed frames to match. It is the cheapest route to a visibly different kitchen, and in much of this metro it is also the least regulated.

Refacing, refinishing and painting are different jobs

Refacing replaces the doors and fronts. Refinishing strips and recoats the existing ones. Painting coats them in place. All three leave the boxes and the layout alone, which is why none of them solves a kitchen whose problem is where things are rather than how they look.

The permit position is unusually clear

Overland Park publishes it outright: no permit is required to install or replace cabinets. That covers refacing cleanly. The same list is equally clear that electrical or plumbing modifications associated with cabinet replacement do require one — so the moment refacing turns into adding under-cabinet circuits, the exemption stops applying.

The rule older homes hit

Refinishing and painting both disturb existing paint, and in a home built before 1978 that pulls the work under the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule. The firm doing it must be certified. Where you verify that certification depends on which side of the state line you are on: Kansas runs its own EPA-authorised programme, while Missouri is administered by the EPA directly. Ask for the certification before sanding starts, not after.