We spray one of your real cabinet doors in the shade on your shortlist and hang it back up for several days. Seeing a real sample under your own windows is the safest route to a cabinet painting colour you will still enjoy years later.
Paint chips are small and look different under store lights. A whole kitchen of doors in the wrong white can look yellow, grey or cold. The sample door removes the guesswork. That small cost is nothing next to redoing a whole kitchen in a shade you regret.
A sprayed door shows the true colour, sheen and texture that cabinet painting will give your own cabinet style. A chip only shows a flat patch of colour.
We take one door off, prime it, and spray it in the colour you pick. It goes back into its spot so you can see it next to the counter, floor and walls. Give it several days and check it at breakfast, midday and after dark. Most people change their mind at least once, and that is the point of the sample.
Older village houses tend to have smaller windows and deeper rooms, so whites can turn grey. Newer homes with large patio doors and big windows can wash colours out.
North-facing kitchens make cool colours look colder. South and west-facing kitchens warm colours up in the afternoon. Homes with tall trees along the Credit River valley can get green-tinted light in summer. We help you pick a shade that works in your own light for your cabinet painting.
Sheen changes how smooth the finish looks and how easy it is to clean. Matte hides small flaws but marks more easily. Semi-gloss is easy to clean but shows every dent.
For kitchen cabinet painting, satin is what most people pick. It cleans well and still looks soft. In older homes, a lower sheen often suits the period better. We show you the sheen on the sample door.
If your counter or backsplash is staying, the cabinet colour must work with it. We hold the sample door next to your counter to check the match.
Counters with beige, brown or gold in them sit nicely beside soft whites, cream and greige. Cool grey or white counters pair better with crisp white, blue or charcoal. If you plan a two-tone kitchen, we test both colours together. For layout ideas, read two-tone kitchens and island painting.
Dark colours often need an extra coat, and some deep shades need a tinted primer. That adds time and cost to the cabinet painting.
Very light colours over dark wood may also need an extra coat for full coverage. The sample door shows us how many coats your chosen colour needs, so the quote is accurate.
There are hundreds of whites, and they all look different on a cabinet door. Some lean yellow, some lean grey and some lean blue.
Warm whites suit older homes, wood floors and warm counters. Clean, bright whites suit modern kitchens with grey or white stone. In a north-facing kitchen, a white with a little warmth keeps the room from feeling cold. In a sunny kitchen, a slightly cooler white keeps it from looking yellow. We usually test two or three whites side by side on sample doors. Most people are surprised by how different they look once they are on real cabinets. Choosing the right white is one of the most important steps in any cabinet painting job.
We spray a sample door, bring hardware samples, and help you choose, all without a fee. Call +1 (289) 207-0024, tell us your favourite shades, or visit our Streetsville home page.
Vanities, pantries, laundry rooms, built-ins and islands are primed and sprayed exactly as Streetsville kitchens are.
We take every door and drawer front down, clean off the kitchen grease, prime for the real material underneath and spray a hard enamel finish. Kitchen cabinet painting recolours every cupboard in the room, and the counters, sink and floor never move.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Older village houses often hold cupboards and built-ins covered in decades of oil paint, and those layers need cleaning, testing and a bonding primer before anything new goes on. Heritage home cabinet painting gives that old woodwork a fresh, hard finish while keeping the trim, panels and shape that make the house what it is.
See Heritage Homes
Oak pushes brown tannin stains up through ordinary primer, and its deep grain shows under colour unless it is filled first. Oak cabinet painting handles both with a tannin-blocking primer plus a decision about the grain before any coat goes on.
See Oak Cabinets
Refinishing removes a worn clear coat, refreshes or changes the stain, and seals the wood under a new sprayed clear finish. The grain stays visible, so when the timber is the best feature of the room, refinishing wins over cabinet painting.
See Refinishing
Fronts are finished in our clean-air booth, and the boxes on your walls are coated at home inside a sealed plastic enclosure. Spraying lays each coat of cabinet painting down thin and level, so the finish reads smooth with no brush or roller marks.
See Spray Painting
Shiny factory doors will hold colour after degreasing, a fine scuff and a coat of adhesion primer meant for vinyl and plastic faces. Cabinet painting works on thermofoil only while the vinyl skin is still tight, so we check every door before we quote.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
New doors and drawer fronts go onto the cabinet boxes you already have, and the boxes and frames are sprayed to match. On price and on how much changes, it falls somewhere between cabinet painting and a whole new kitchen.
See Refacing and New Doors
Putting a deeper shade on the island or the base cabinets, with pale uppers above, adds depth to a room without any renovation. Two-tone cabinet painting needs two colours, two spray setups and a clear plan for where each colour goes.
See Two-Tone and Islands
A vanity takes steam, splashes and hand cream every day, so it needs a harder finish and a proper cure before normal use. Vanity cabinet painting is normally a one- or two-day job and a fraction of what a replacement vanity costs.
See Bathroom Vanities
Condo and townhouse kitchens are usually small, but building rules about elevators, parking, quiet hours and odour shape how the job runs. Condo kitchen cabinet painting sends the doors out of the unit to be sprayed, so the smell and the overspray never reach the shared halls.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantries, laundry cabinets, mudroom lockers, bookcases and fireplace built-ins are primed and sprayed with the enamel we use on kitchen doors. Most of these are fastened to the wall, so we do the cabinet painting where they stand, with taped plastic sealing off the room.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Unused knob holes get plugged before primer, a jig guides every new pull hole, and tired hinges are replaced with the doors already down. Adding hardware to a cabinet painting job costs less than doing it later and gives the whole kitchen a finished look.
See Hardware and HingesWe visit, count every door, check the material and write the scope down for you. You pay nothing for either one.
Tell us about the cupboards, even roughly, and a visit gets arranged by phone. A name and a phone number are enough to send it. To speak with someone now, phone +1 (289) 207-0024.
