I can also recommend a painter we just used on a flip that did a great job for us on interior and exterior paint and refinishing all the cabinets in the house. 

He tries to put linoleum in the living room because he didn't know how to refinish a hardwood floor.

Can the cabinents be refinished?

It'll be owner occupied.So here's the poop:150y/o brick 3 story. 2000 sq'Needs: New roofpartial gut8 new windows (4 "historic" inserts)9 repaired windows2 new exterior doors and 1 rotted sill replacement.all new plumbing (3 baths 1/2, full, 3/4)mostly new electric (if only to sleep better)new furnace (though there are two on premises)A/Csome refinished floors, some carpetnew kitcheninsulationframingdrywallWe'll also want to deal with a concrete patio that's draining water toward the foundation before it causes problems.The place is in a transitional neighborhood (i.e 1 block away $300k homes and $150-275K condos, but plenty of ratty joints too).

I get a little twisted at the cost of refinishing hardwood floors.

I save my time for creating/doing the much more expensive tasks (flooring, building/hanging/refinishing cabinets, tiling, etc).

I own a business that specializes in wood repair and refinishing, and my biggest clients are commercial/residential property managers.

Some of the newer, better engineered hardwoods are durable like real hardwood and can be refinished couple of times.

In old houses, refinished original wood floors-- My RE is all over 100+ years old.

I live in the Metro-West area of Boston, work in the pharmaceutical industry as a day job, and my husband and I gutted and rehabbed our first home in Worcester, MA ourselves (okay, we did contract out refinishing the floors and exterior paint, but nothing else).