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One finishing schedule
Temperature, humidity, and mix all affect color. Finishing a kitchen in one place and on one schedule helps keep uppers, bases, and additions aligned.
Cabinet Stain and Paint Finishes
Finished in our shop, not somebody else's.
Your cabinetry is the largest piece of furniture in your house, and the finish is what decides whether it still looks right in ten years. Every Crown cabinet is stained or painted and topcoated in our own finishing department in Abilene. Nothing gets sent out.
The finishing department
Why we do it ourselves
Finishing under one roof keeps a kitchen cohesive from the first door to the last, and gives us a clear starting point if you add to it later.
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Post-catalyst varnish
Home-center cabinet programs commonly use bulk, pre-catalyzed finishes with a longer working window. Crown combines the finish liquid and hardener in small batches instead. Once mixed, our varnish must be used within about eight hours.
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Heat-cured finish
The catalyst starts a chemical reaction that bonds the finish to the wood. Our heated spray booths cure it for added hardness and durability. Crown guarantees the finish for ten years.
Stain or paint
Start with the finish you want the room to carry, then choose the material and color that support it.
Natural character
Stain lets the wood show
Stain is translucent, so grain, texture, and natural color remain part of the finished color. The same stain can read differently from one species to another.
Color first
Paint sets the palette
Paint gives you color the wood can't, creating a consistent field across the room. Open-grained woods can still leave some texture visible beneath it.
For wood cabinetry
Stain colors
An asterisk marks stains available on Walnut. Natural/Clear Coat is also available for Walnut. Other wood and stain selections can be specified with an upcharge.
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Aberdeen*
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Aged Olive
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Almost Natural
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American Walnut*
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Big Splash
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Black
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Brazilian Bean
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Charcoal
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Chestnut Brown*
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Coffee Bean
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Comfort Bar
Crown Plaza
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Dark Chestnut
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Drift Ash
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Dusty Brown
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Ebony
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Extra White
Medium Brown Walnut
Mediterranean
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New Ebony
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Old Manor Pine
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Pecan*
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Rhino Skin
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Scanda Tone
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Soft Charcoal
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Stockholm Grey
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Tobacco
Toffee*
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Vintage Gray*
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Weathered Alder Grey
For painted cabinetry
Paint colors
These are the colors people choose most often.
Bring a color you love and we'll match it.
China Clay
Crown Custom Color
Soft blue with gray undertones
Sebastian Blue
Crown Custom Color
A deep navy
Grays Harbor
Sherwin-Williams SW 6236
Medium gray with blue undertones
Dorian Gray
Sherwin-Williams SW 7017
Warm gray
Dried Thyme
Sherwin-Williams SW 6186
Subtle green-gray
Urbane Bronze
Sherwin-Williams SW 7048
Warm gray with brown tones
True Black
Crown
The purest black we make
Iron Ore
Sherwin-Williams SW 7069
Soft black
Alabaster
Sherwin-Williams SW 7008
Warm, creamy white
Snowbound
Sherwin-Williams SW 7004
Warm white
Designer White
Crown Custom Color
Pure, cool white
The finish changes the door
Two Bentley doors, both painted Clary Sage, show how much the final treatment changes the way a profile reads.
With a hang-up glaze
The profile comes forward
A darker tone settles into the edges and details, giving the door more depth and definition.
Straight painted finish
The color stays softer
Without the glaze, the same color has a more even read and the profile feels less pronounced.
Made by hand, not by a machine
Glazes are sprayed, brushed, or wiped, then hand-wiped back to leave color in the right places. Sand-throughs, distressing, and small marks are handled the same way, so every finished door carries its own variation.
Keeping existing millwork? Our Leawood finish-planning guide considers tone, grain and sheen together before choosing a match or a deliberate contrast.
Helpful answers
Common questions about finishes
Can you match a finish I already have?
Yes. Bring us a paint sample, a chip, or a door from what you've already got, and we'll match it in our own finishing department.
Will the grain show through paint?
On open-grained species like red oak or hickory, yes, some texture comes through. On tighter-grained species it doesn't. If you want a completely smooth painted surface, say so at the design stage and we'll steer you to Paint Grade Maple, which exists for that reason.
What happens if I add a cabinet later?
Because we finish in our own department, we can go back to the same finish instead of trying to match somebody else's work from years ago.
Does stain or paint hold up better?
Stain generally hides everyday wear better, because a scratch in stained wood still reads as wood. Paint shows chips more, especially on edges. Both get a post-catalyst varnish topcoat, and both hold up fine in a working kitchen.