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.
Some kitchens have good boxes but bad doors. Water damage, peeling thermofoil, broken panels and outdated shapes can all rule out cabinet painting on the old fronts. When that happens, refacing keeps the boxes and gives you new doors in a style you choose.
If the doors are sound, cabinet painting is the cheaper choice. If many doors are damaged, or you want a different door style, refacing is the better one.
A few bad doors do not need a full reface. Those doors are swapped individually and sprayed along with every other door in the room. Once more than a third of the doors have failed, refacing usually costs less in the long run. We walk you through both numbers on the visit.
Refacing in this part of Mississauga typically costs three to ten thousand dollars, based on door count and style. Cabinet painting the same room would normally total $2,500 to $5,500.
Replacing everything begins near $15,000 and often ends above $40,000. Refacing saves most of that cost by keeping the boxes, counters and plumbing in place. The door style, the wood or MDF choice and the hardware all move the refacing price.
New doors and your existing boxes are sprayed in one colour during one session. That way the new doors match exactly and nobody can tell which ones are new.
Shaker-style MDF doors are the most popular choice for refacing. They are stable, smooth and take paint very well. We fit new hinges at the same time, since the new doors need them anyway. Soft-close is the usual pick. We describe hinge and pull options in cabinet hardware and soft-close hinges.
Refacing lets you change the door shape, not just the colour. Flat slab, shaker and simple raised panel are the most common choices.
Shaker suits almost any home, from a village house to a newer townhouse. Slab doors give a clean modern look and suit post-war bungalows well. Raised panel suits a more traditional kitchen. We carry sample doors to the house, so each style can be seen and handled. Any style you choose is primed and sprayed exactly like cabinet painting on the old boxes, so doors and frames match.
Cabinet boxes rarely wear out. In Streetsville houses built between the post-war years and the 1990s, most boxes are plywood or dense particleboard and still square.
Keeping them saves money and time, and it avoids tearing out counters and plumbing. Each box is checked for water damage, loose joints and sagging shelves before refacing or cabinet painting begins. Small repairs are added to the quote. If a box is too far gone, we tell you.
New doors need to be measured, ordered and made, so refacing takes more time from start to finish. Cabinet painting can start as soon as the date is booked.
We measure every opening on the visit. Custom doors usually take a few weeks to arrive. Once they come in, we prime and spray them along with your existing boxes and face frames. The in-home work is about the same as a regular painting job, two or three days. We plan the schedule so your kitchen is only torn apart for a short time. If you need the kitchen done before a set date, such as a holiday or a move, tell us early so we can order in time.
We look at every box and door and give you a written quote for cabinet painting, refacing or both, and the visit costs nothing. Call +1 (289) 207-0024, book here, or see every service we offer.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
See Colour ConsultationWe 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.
