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.
Kitchens in Streetsville tend to sort into a few familiar groups. Village houses often have cupboards with many old paint layers. Vista Heights bungalows usually still have birch, maple or painted plywood doors put in when the houses went up after the war. Riverview two-story homes from the 1970s to the 1990s lean toward oak and thermofoil. Each type gets a different cabinet painting plan, and older village homes have their own page at heritage home cabinet painting.
Three numbers open every cabinet painting quote we write: the door count, the drawer count and the box count. Every dollar on the page ties back to one of those numbers.
Under the counts, the quote names the cabinet material and then the primer, topcoat, gloss level and number of passes chosen for it. Inside surfaces are priced on their own, since shelving and inner walls nearly double what gets sprayed. Crown moulding, glazed doors, plugged holes and new pulls are also listed one by one. Should the scope change midway, a new line is written and agreed before that extra work starts.
Every step in cabinet painting has a job, and skipping one is why cheap work peels. The first job is taking down every door and drawer face along with its hinges. We number each piece, keep the hinges in marked bags and photograph where everything goes.
Degreasing follows, and no other step does more to decide whether the finish lasts. Years of cooking grease sit on cabinet doors, most of all near the stove. Soap and water will not cut it, so we use a proper degreaser. Next come filler for dents, an even scuff across every surface, and whichever primer suits that wood, veneer or board.
Two or three sprayed topcoats go on after that, and each gets a light scuff before the next one lands. The doors get theirs in our spray booth. Your cabinet boxes and face frames take their coats in the house, with taped plastic walling them off. More about the shop half of the work sits under cabinet spray painting.
Most kitchen cabinet painting jobs need two or three days inside your home. The full job usually wraps up within two weeks once the doors reach the booth. A dark navy or charcoal may call for a third pass, which adds about a day.
You keep water, the fridge and the stove the whole time. Your plates and glasses sit in plain view on the shelves until the fronts come home. Box-spraying day is the one awkward day, and we pick it together.
Dry to the touch and fully cured are two separate stages. With waterborne enamel, the surface is touch-dry the same afternoon, ready for careful use in roughly seven days, and still hardening for close to a month. Humid summer weather in the Credit River valley can slow that down, so we tell you what to expect.
In Streetsville, full kitchen cabinet painting is normally a $2,500 to $5,500 project. Small kitchens start near $1,500. Large rooms and two-colour layouts climb to roughly six to nine thousand dollars, occasionally more. Split out per door, the Mississauga figure sits around $130 at the low end and $250 at the top.
Hanging brand new doors on the boxes you already have costs roughly three to ten thousand dollars. A full tear-out with new cabinetry starts around $15,000, and plenty of those projects pass $40,000. Bonding primer on slick doors, grain filling on oak and stripping old oil paint all raise the cabinet painting price. Those are Mississauga figures, and the written quote for your room is what you actually pay.
Cabinet painting peels for four common reasons. Grease was left under the primer. The surface was never sanded. The primer did not suit the material. Or wall paint was used on the cabinets.
Paint made for walls stays too soft for a door that swings open thousands of times a year. We use cabinet-grade enamel and spray it thin. Chips tend to start at the handles and on the cutlery drawer, so we check those spots first on every job. If a hairline shows where a panel meets its frame in January, that comes from the wood shrinking, and the paint has not let go.
Expect us in the kitchen for roughly forty minutes, at no charge. We tally the doors, identify what they are made of, inspect the most worn cabinet, and hand over a cabinet painting quote on paper. Call +1 (289) 207-0024, write to us here, or return to the Streetsville home page.
Vanities, pantries, laundry rooms, built-ins and islands are primed and sprayed exactly as Streetsville kitchens are.
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 Hinges
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.
