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.
This is the most requested layout we see right now. In Streetsville we often see white or cream perimeters around an island in navy, forest green or charcoal, in village homes and in the newer builds near the GO line alike. It also works well with a wood island, which stays natural while the rest gets cabinet painting.
Every shade is mixed on its own, sprayed from a separate setup and built up in separate coats. That adds time and some cost to the cabinet painting.
We finish one colour fully before starting the next. The booth is cleaned between colours so nothing mixes. At home, we mask the first colour before spraying the second. Allow a day or two beyond what one colour would take.
Deep colour on the base cabinets anchors the room and hides marks from shoes and grocery bags. A dark island draws the eye to the centre. Hardly anyone picks dark uppers, since they close a room in.
In a smaller village kitchen, light uppers keep the room bright. In a larger Riverview kitchen with an island, a dark island often looks best. We help you choose based on how the room is laid out and how much light it gets.
Doing only the island freshens a kitchen quickly and for a modest price. It usually costs $800 to $2,000 and takes about two days.
The island still gets full cabinet painting prep: degreasing, scuffing, primer and sprayed coats. We remove the doors and drawer fronts, spray them in the booth, and spray the island base in place. It is a good choice when the wall cabinets are already white and in good shape.
Your counter, backsplash and floor all affect how two cabinet colours look together. Pairing colours is easier when you can see them next to your own counter.
Both shades go onto sample doors, which then sit beside your counter for several days. That shows how they look in morning and evening light. Our cabinet colour consultation page explains the sample door process in detail.
A large two-colour kitchen typically lands around six to nine thousand dollars, and bigger rooms go higher. A smaller two-colour kitchen may land close to $5,500.
The price depends on how many doors are in each colour, how dark the colours are, and whether the island has detailed panels. Your written quote shows each part.
White uppers with navy lowers is still the most common pair we paint. Cream with sage green and soft white with charcoal are close behind.
In older village homes, deeper greens and muted blues often suit the trim and the age of the house. In brighter Riverview kitchens, a bold island against white walls of cabinets gives the room a clear centre. Some people keep a wood island and paint only the walls of cabinets, which gives warmth without a second paint colour. Whichever pair you choose, we test it on sample doors first. Hardware helps tie two colours together, and brass or black pulls often work across both colours in a two-tone cabinet painting job.
We visit, count the doors in each colour, and hand you a written two-colour price for free. Call +1 (289) 207-0024, share your colour ideas, or see every Streetsville service.
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
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.
