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Cabo Cabinet Group offers painted finishes and stained finishes across four door styles: shaker, slim shaker, slab, and thermofoil. Painted finishes deliver a clean, contemporary look in any color you specify. Stained finishes bring out natural wood grain in traditional or modern profiles. Both finish types are available on framed or frameless boxes, delivered RTA or fully assembled, with soft close hardware standard. You specify the exact finish to match your project requirements, and Cabo builds to that spec.
Why It Matters
Finish selection drives three things on a multifamily or production build: visual impact, durability in high traffic environments, and cost control. Painted finishes hide substrate variations and provide a uniform appearance across hundreds of units, which matters when you are delivering consistency to a developer or property owner. Stained finishes showcase wood character, a selling point in higher end projects where natural materials justify premium rents or sale prices. The finish you choose also affects lead time slightly, as some custom paint matches require an extra few days in production, but Cabo's 30 day production window absorbs that without changing your overall five week timeline from confirmed spec to cabinets on site.
How It Works
You send Cabo your finish specification: paint color with a sample or code, or stain type and wood species. Cabo matches it in production. Painted finishes go on in a controlled spray environment, multiple coats, cured and inspected. Stained finishes are hand wiped or sprayed depending on the door style and wood type, then top coated for protection. Every finish meets CARB Phase 2 and TSCA Title VI compliance, so you are covered on VOC limits and formaldehyde emissions for any US jurisdiction.
The four door styles give you range:
- Shaker: five piece door with a recessed center panel, the most common choice in multifamily for its balance of detail and durability
- Slim shaker: narrower rail and stile, a modern take that works in urban projects where clean lines matter
- Slab: flat front, no frame, the go to for contemporary design and the easiest to keep clean in rental properties
- Thermofoil: a vinyl wrap over MDF, extremely durable and moisture resistant, ideal for bathroom vanities and high humidity climates
Cabo runs these finishes at scale. With 700,000 square feet of production space and capacity for 8,000 apartment units of cabinetry per month, finish consistency holds across large orders. If you are building 200 units and ordering cabinets in three phases, the paint on unit one matches the paint on unit 200.
What to Specify
Send Cabo a finish sample or a color code from a major paint manufacturer. For painted finishes, a physical chip works better than a digital reference because monitors vary. For stained finishes, specify the wood species and the stain transparency: solid stain covers the grain completely, semi transparent shows some character, clear stain or natural finish lets the wood speak. If you are working on a National Accounts program with Cabo, you will lock in a finish standard across multiple projects, which simplifies reordering and keeps your brand consistent property to property.
Thermofoil is worth a closer look for bathroom vanities. It holds up to water, heat, and cleaning chemicals better than paint or stain, and it does not chip or peel the way a painted edge can after a few years of use. In a 300 unit apartment complex, that durability difference shows up in your maintenance costs and resident satisfaction scores. Specify thermofoil on vanities, painted or stained on kitchen cabinets, and you balance aesthetics with long term performance.