We unscrew every door and drawer front; each one is degreased and sanded, takes a primer chosen for its material, and receives a tough sprayed enamel before it is rehung. Kitchen cabinet painting gives the room a new colour while the counters, sink and floors stay exactly where they are.
Most kitchens in Churchill Meadows were installed between the late 1990s and about 2010, so they tend to be one of three types: dark stained maple, espresso or white thermofoil, or a plain melamine box with a shaker door. Each type starts the cabinet painting a little differently, and the quote says which one we found in your house.
A fair quote counts the pieces first. Doors, drawer fronts, end panels and boxes are each tallied, since every figure on the quote is built from those tallies.
Below those tallies you will find the material, the matched primer, the topcoat, the chosen sheen and the coat count for each surface. Box interiors appear as a separate item, because shelves and inside walls almost double the sprayed area. Crown, light rail, glass fronts, filled pull holes and new pulls are listed as separate items as well. If the cabinet painting scope grows, you see a new written line before any extra work happens.
Skipping a step is why cheap cabinet painting peels. We take down each door and drawer front, label it, bag the hinges and photograph the layout before anything leaves the house.
Degreasing follows, and no step decides more about how long the paint lasts. Twenty years of cooking leaves a film on the doors near the stove and on the pulls, and paint will not grip it. After cleaning, every surface is sanded to an even dull finish and filled where needed. The primer is chosen for the material: a bonding primer for thermofoil, melamine and factory lacquer, and a stain-blocking primer where tannin or dark dye could bleed.
After primer come two or three topcoats, each one lightly scuffed before the next. Doors get theirs in the booth and boxes get theirs at home behind plastic, which cabinet spray painting describes in full.
Expect us inside the house for two or three days on a typical kitchen. Start to finish, the cabinet painting usually wraps up about two weeks after the doors arrive at the booth, and a navy or charcoal can add a day for its third coat.
You keep the sink, fridge and stove the whole time. Dishes stay on the open shelves while the doors are away. The only messy day is the one when the boxes are sprayed, and even then the rest of the main floor stays open.
Dry to the touch and fully cured are two separate stages. Waterborne enamel feels dry within hours, yet it should be treated gently for roughly seven days. A catalyzed topcoat hardens overnight. Humid August weather in Mississauga slows the cure, so we plan a little extra time in summer.
In this part of Mississauga, a full kitchen usually prices somewhere from $2,500 up to $5,500. Townhouse kitchens can open close to $1,500, while a large detached-home kitchen with a contrasting island may land at $6,000 to $9,000, occasionally higher. Per door, the GTA range is about $130 to $250.
Espresso to white adds a primer pass on every piece, and interiors add real area. New doors on the old boxes tend to cost $3,000 to $10,000, and a complete new kitchen rarely comes in under about $15,000. These are market ranges. The price that applies to you is the one on the written cabinet painting quote.
Four things cause most failures: grease left under the primer, a skipped sanding step, the wrong primer for the material, or wall paint used on doors. Wall paint stays soft, and a kitchen door gets touched thousands of times a year.
Chips start where hands land, at the pulls and on the top edge of the cutlery drawer. Thin sprayed coats hold up there far better than a thick brushed coat. That is the main reason our cabinet painting is always sprayed.
The visit takes about forty minutes and costs nothing. We count the pieces, check the material, look at the worst door and hand you a written cabinet painting quote you can hold up against any other. Call +1 (289) 206-9978, send us the details, or browse the full service list to see every service. If your doors are dark, read about espresso cabinet painting first.
Vanities, pantries, laundry rooms, mudroom lockers and basement bars are primed and sprayed with the kitchen's enamel.
Dark espresso maple and brown thermofoil can be painted white, greige or any light colour when the factory finish is scuffed and sealed under a bonding primer first. Espresso cabinet painting takes one more primer step than a light kitchen, and that step is what keeps the brown from showing through.
See Espresso Cabinets
Oak needs a stain-blocking primer so its tannin does not rise through the new colour, and a choice about whether to fill the open grain. When oak cabinet painting follows those two steps, the finish stays clean and even for years.
See Oak Cabinets
Refinishing leaves the grain on show: we sand or strip the old coat, stain the wood to a new tone and spray a fresh clear finish over it. It is the right choice when the wood is worth showing, and paint is the right choice when it is not.
See Refinishing
Sprayed coats land as a fine mist that flows level before it dries, so the finished door has no brush lines at all. Cabinet painting done with a sprayer looks like a factory finish instead of a weekend project.
See Spray Painting
Slick factory surfaces need a bonding primer made to grip them, because ordinary primer slides off. Sound melamine, laminate and thermofoil all accept cabinet painting, although a vinyl face that is already peeling is beyond what paint can rescue.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
New doors and drawer fronts hang on the boxes you already own, and the frames and end panels are coated to match. When only a few doors have failed, those pieces are replaced and finished along with the rest in the same cabinet painting job.
See Refacing and New Doors
White or warm white on the upper cabinets with navy, sage or charcoal below is the look most people ask about, often with the island in the darker colour. Island cabinet painting on its own is also a full job we quote separately.
See Two-Tone and Islands
One vanity usually needs a single day, now and then two, which makes it our smallest booking. The vanity's fronts ride to our booth and its base is finished where it sits, so the bathroom is usable again soon after the cabinet painting wraps up.
See Bathroom Vanities
Stacked townhouses and condo towns usually have compact kitchens with ten to twenty doors, so the work moves quickly. Condo cabinet painting goes smoothly when parking, access and the board's rules are sorted out before the first day.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry cabinets, laundry uppers, mudroom lockers, basement bars and built-in desks all get the same primer and sprayed enamel as the kitchen. Since most of them are anchored in place, we carry out this cabinet painting on site inside a sealed plastic enclosure.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Unused pull holes are plugged and filled flush, and fresh holes are bored with a jig so the pulls sit level along each run. Tired hinges can be changed to soft-close models while the doors are down for cabinet painting.
See Hardware and Hinges
Warm white tops the request list, followed by soft cream, greige, sage, navy and charcoal, yet a tiny chip from the paint store gives little idea how each will read in your house. We spray one of your doors in the actual shade and leave it in the kitchen, so the cabinet painting choice happens in your own light.
See Colour ConsultationWe come over, count each door and drawer, confirm the material and spell out the work. The visit and quote are both free.
Colour, door style, rough age: note whatever you can, and expect a call to pick a day. Just a name and number will send it. You can also call us at +1 (289) 206-9978.
