Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Vaughan, Ontario

What Are The Benefits Of Cabinet Painting Rather Than New Cabinets?

Cost is the first benefit of cabinet painting. Ontario figures put a whole kitchen most often between $2,500 and $5,500, while cabinetry ripped out and replaced in the same footprint starts around $15,000 and runs past $40,000 in the larger houses north of Rutherford Road.

The kitchen stays where it is. Boxes, counters, plumbing and backsplash are untouched, so there is no demolition, no bin in the driveway and no month of takeout.

A sprayed cabinet painting surface has no brush texture in it. Waterborne alkyd enamel and two-part 2K polyurethane both level out when they are laid on thin, and both cure to a film that takes daily use.

Colour stops being fixed. Honey oak from 1991 can finish as warm white, as sage, as charcoal, and the decision gets made by looking at a door out of that same kitchen sprayed in the shortlisted shade.

The cabinet painting calendar is short. Two or three days of work happen inside the house, and the doors are usually back on their hinges inside two weeks.

Professional cabinet painting outlives the weekend version by years, and the reason sits in the degreasing, the primer choice, the thin coats and the cure rather than in the can.

Cabinet Painting In A Large Custom Kitchen Is Priced By Count, Not By Guess

Forty to seventy doors and drawer fronts is normal in Kleinburg, Islington Woods and Vellore Village, and cabinet painting at that size cannot be quoted from the doorway. Applied mouldings, stacked crown, corbels, valances and a furniture-style island all add surface that has to be masked, sanded and sprayed individually, and glazed or distressed finishes have to be matched or deliberately taken off.

Stone counters, waterfall ends and full-height tile need masking that holds for days rather than hours. Our custom kitchen cabinet painting page explains how a count-based quote is built for kitchens of that scale, including butler's pantries and finished basement second kitchens.

Cabinet Painting Cannot Stick Thermofoil Back Down Once It Lifts

Paint does not re-bond vinyl film to the board underneath it, so a door that is peeling beside the dishwasher needs stripping to bare MDF or replacing. Intact thermofoil is a different story and takes a bonding primer and a sprayed topcoat without complaint.

Kitchens finished between about 2005 and 2015 in Patterson, later Vellore Village and the Carrville streets raise this cabinet painting question most often, along with melamine boxes throughout. The thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting page is honest about which doors are candidates and which are not.

Two-Tone Cabinet Painting With A Darker Island Is The Most Requested Look

Two colours in one kitchen is now the normal request rather than the adventurous one. Warm white or greige on the perimeter with navy, forest green or charcoal on the island reads well in the big open-plan kitchens built after 2000, where the island is the piece everyone sees first.

Islands get quoted and finished alone all the time, usually inside a couple of days, and the reverse pairing of a stained wood island beneath painted uppers is asked for almost as often. How two colours are chosen, and why deep shades need a tinted primer and a third coat, sits on the two-tone kitchens and island painting page.

Some Wood Is Worth Refinishing Instead Of Cabinet Painting

Stain-grade cherry, walnut and white oak turn up far more often in the custom-built pockets of Vaughan than in a tract subdivision, and cabinet painting over good wood is not always the right advice. Where the wood itself is sound and the problem is a worn, cloudy or yellowed clear coat, stripping or sanding back and re-staining gives a better result than any colour.

The cabinet refinishing page sets out when refinishing beats cabinet painting, how far a colour can shift in stain, and why going lighter is harder than going darker. Plenty of kitchens end up with both, wood on the island and paint everywhere else.

Condo Cabinet Painting Runs On Building Rules That Houses Do Not Have

Buildings decide when the elevator is available, which one is padded, how long the loading dock can be held and what odour is acceptable in a corridor. All of that gets booked before the first door comes off, and none of it is a reason to avoid the job.

The towers around the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre are recent enough that their kitchens are factory shaker and thermofoil rather than oak, and those doors leave the unit so the cabinet painting happens in the booth and the kitchen stays usable. Galley layouts, building paperwork and the small-kitchen price tier are on the condo kitchen cabinet painting page.

Cabinets Outside The Kitchen Need The Same Cabinet Painting Prep

Laundry cabinets, mudroom lockers, walk-in pantries, bookcases and mantels get identical cabinet painting treatment to a kitchen. Since none of it can be unscrewed and carried out, the spraying happens in the room, inside an enclosure. Basement second kitchens, common in the four and five bedroom houses of Patterson and Vellore Village, are quoted the same way as a main kitchen.

Bathroom vanities are the small end of cabinet painting. A day or two finishes most, the damp air calls for a harder topcoat, and tacking one onto a kitchen job barely moves the price. Details are on the pantry, laundry and built-in cabinet painting page and the bathroom vanity painting page.