ColorTrend
Pre-Finishing


You've Heard It Before...

“I want it to look and feel unfinished”

Introducing Dead Flat — The Look of Raw Wood. The Performance of a Modern Coating.

Cabdoor is excited to offer an advanced ultra-matte system that delivers a true “unfinished” appearance— what we call a Dead Flat Finish.


  • Natural Aesthetic: Maintains the raw wood look without darkening or “wetting” the grain
  • Ultra-Low Sheen: Clean, modern appearance with virtually zero reflectivity.
  • Commercial Durability: Engineered for scratch resistance and everyday wear.
  • Consistent Results: Controlled factory finish for repeatable, high-end results.

Ideal for builders, designers, and millwork professionals seeking a premium, on-trend finish that performs in real-world applications.

This finish is available at an accessible price point in clear coats and can also be paired with our stain offerings.

To complete your project, Cabdoor offers satin painted finishes in any Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams color. Explore pre-matched options at mycabdoor.com.

Samples Available!

Contact your salesman or our office to review finish options and request samples.

basics


CabDoor Basic's  Pre-primed Program

WB Primer System

  • Designed for Water-based and Lacquer-based finishes
  • Scuff sand fully with a 320 grit abrasive or finer
  • Apply your paint within the next 24 hours

All you do is your final scuff-sand and paint!

stains


CabDoor ColorTrend Stains and Finishes

Sometimes, outsourcing makes a lot of sense. When coupled with solving bottlenecks within your shop, eliminating risk of liability, or some other business reason, outsourcing products and services can help your business get to another level, making for better profit margins.

That's the purpose for CabDoor's Pre-Finishing program. To give you the benefit of extending your capacity to those levels that make you the most money.

We know it's not for everyone, but a program tailored to your situation could very well be the catalyst to your best profitability, and CabDoor is the company that can make that happen for you.

CabDoor Paints FanDeck

Clean Finish. Strong Performance. Smarter Coating.

Alcea water-based paints deliver the refined, furniture-grade finish today’s cabinetry demands—without the drawbacks of traditional coatings. Engineered for low VOCs and a safer, non-flammable application, they create a cleaner environment for your shop while maintaining exceptional consistency and efficiency. Faster dry times and easy water cleanup help keep production moving, so you can deliver more without compromise.

Built for real-world performance, Alcea Top Coats offer outstanding durability and flexibility, resisting cracking, peeling, and daily wear while adapting to natural wood movement. Advanced anti-yellowing technology ensures whites, creams, and taupes stay true over time, giving you a smooth, uniform, no-grain finish that looks as good years from now as it does the day it’s installed.

Take me to the Paints Fandeck



ColorTrend™ Stains & Finishes

Alder

Alder - A popular wood deserves all the popular finishes, with stains ranging from warm reds to cool grays.

How we finish Alder:
We take the simple beauty of a clear or knotty alder, and enhance that beauty primarily with a solvent-based wiping stain or a water-based wiping stain, depending on the depth of color required. As simple as the beauty of alder is, it can be equally tricky to avoid "blotching", a feature that our formulations have overcome.

Alder glazes well, distresses well, and with our 7 different glazing colors, the possibilities with Farmhouse Chic™ finishes are endless.

Some Farmhouse Chic™ Finishing Possibilities

Classic Glazed
Natural w/ Mocha Glaze

Classic Glazed
Cattle Brown w/
Dark Chocolate Glaze

Classic Glazed
Oregon Trail w/
Dark Chocolate Glaze

Natural

Mimosa

Honey

Ginger

Toffee

Spiced Rum

Harvest

Sangria

Copper

Cayenne

Bourbon

Sedona

Hawthorne

Kona

Kodiak

Charcoal

Crimson

Seaside

Beachwood

Harbor Mist


Maple

Maple - The most durable of cabinet woods. And the toughest to get great color, because of that durability.

How we finish Maple: With a well-developed two-step staining process, our ability to get the deep and dark colors on Maple are unparalleled. No ticking, blotchiness, or end-grain issues.

Check out the collection, and see for yourself how your client might well be served with a Maple kitchen in any of the consistently popular dark stains to the hottest greys of today.

Natural

Pecan

Mimosa

Kaffe

Wheat

Buckskin

Cinnamon

Cider

Nutmeg

Truffle

Cabernet

Merlot

Sedona

French Roast

Driftwood

Coastal Fog


Cherry

Cherry - Traditional warmth and richness that can be enhanced by several glazes and distressing treatments.

How we finish Cherry: Cherry is versatile, and can take on a variety of stain systems. From traditional solvent-based wiping stains to our unique two-step water-solvent based stain processes, we have carefully chosen the staining approach that best enhances the rich character of Cherry itself.

Natural

Harvest

Pecan

Ginger

Spiced Rum

Sorrel

Sedona

Brandywine

Bourdeaux

Coffee Bean

Java

French Roast

Driftwood

Coastal Fog


Beech

Beech - Versatile, and a great material as a woodworker, it can be a finisher's nightmare.

How we finish Beech: Beech has many things going for it, but many issues arise when finishing. We have taken a very proactive approach to staining Beech, using many of the same processes as we do on Maple.

The result is a rich, deep finish - making Beech something of a celebrity with its warmth and durability. It is truly a new standard...

Natural

Pecan

Buckskin

Cinnamon

Cider

Nutmeg

Truffle

Kaffe

Cabernet

Merlot

Sedona

French Roast


Red Oak

Red Oak - An old standard that has fallen out of favor in today's trends.

How we finish Red Oak: As an old standby, we approach Red Oak with sincere respect as a wood that finishes well. Our stain formulations work to get the best "grain-strike" possible, without the nuisance of bleed-back and other problems you can have with such an open-grained wood.

Smoked Paprika

Natural

Hazelnut

Harvest

Brandywine

Russet

Sorrel

Gunstock

Woodbridge

Java

Coffee Bean

French Roast


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