Home Painting & Cabinet Refinishing in College Hill, Easton, PA
College Hill is one of the Lehigh Valley’s most distinct neighborhoods, historic mansions and turn-of-the-century homes mixed with more modest housing, many still holding original woodwork, plaster walls, and cabinetry from a different era. To Do More Home Services brings careful, prep-first cabinet refinishing and interior painting to homeowners throughout College Hill, updating your home without erasing what makes it special.
Why College Hill Homeowners Choose To Do More
College Hill’s housing stock (median sale price around $449,000, up sharply over the last year) rewards homeowners who update carefully rather than gut-renovate. We’ve worked in homes with original plaster, older cabinet boxes built to last, and trim details that a rushed job would damage or mismatch. Our approach is the same one we’d want if it were our own historic home: real surface prep before any finish goes on, and a finished look that reads as updated, not out of place.
Our Services in College Hill
Kitchen Cabinet Refinishing
Refinishing that respects original cabinet boxes and hardware, not a rip-and-replace.
Interior Painting
Painting matched to the character of College Hill’s pre-war and early-20th-century homes, with careful surface prep for plaster walls and original trim.
Recent Work in the Easton Area
Frequently Asked Questions
Will an updated finish look out of place in a historic College Hill home?
Not if it’s done right. The goal isn’t to make an older home look modern for its own sake, it’s to update the finish while keeping the character that made you buy an older home in the first place. We look at trim profiles, wall condition, and cabinet construction before recommending colors or finishes, so the result complements the house instead of fighting it.
Can you work with original plaster walls, not just drywall?
Yes. Plaster needs a different prep approach than drywall, more careful patching, different primer behavior, and we account for that as part of the process, not as an upcharge surprise.
My cabinets are original to the house. Can they be refinished instead of replaced?
In most cases, yes, and it’s usually the better call. Original cabinet boxes in homes this age are often solid wood construction, which takes a refinish beautifully and holds up longer than a lot of what’s sold new today.