Paint Doesn’t Hide Problems — It Reveals Them Every cabinet shop has seen it. A door looks fine raw. It sands well. Primer goes on smoothly. Then weeks or months later, the phone rings: “I can see lines in the paint.” “The shaker looks soft now.” “Why does this door look different than the others?” Paint doesn’t hide imperfections — it magnifies them . And when paint fails visually, the root cause is almost always door construction , not the coating. For painted cabinetry, on