Architect-drawn kitchens carry forty to seventy doors and drawer fronts, stacked crown, applied mouldings and corbels, and every one of those profiles is masked, sanded and sprayed on its own. Custom cabinet painting is priced from a full count.
Woodbridge, Kleinburg and Vellore Village are full of kitchens built this way, and the pattern repeats in Islington Woods and Patterson, where two-thirds of houses have four or more bedrooms. Furniture-style islands, butler's pantries and finished basement second kitchens are normal rather than unusual, and each of them adds doors to the tally.
A Rough Count Underprices Custom Cabinet Painting By Thousands
Guessing at thirty doors in a kitchen that holds sixty is the single most common way a cabinet painting quote goes wrong. Uppers stacked to a nine-foot ceiling, a separate coffee or wine run, glass-front display cabinets, a pantry with its own doors and a wet bar all belong in the count, and so do end panels, plinths and open shelving.
So the cabinet painting visit counts everything and writes it down. The number of doors, the number of drawer fronts, the linear feet of crown and the square footage of end panel go on paper, and the price is built from those figures. Kitchens at this scale usually run past the top of the Ontario market range, into the $6,000 to $9,000 band and higher, and the written quote is where the real number appears.
Glazed And Distressed Finishes Change What Cabinet Painting Has To Do
Glazing sits in the corners of a profile and in the grooves of an applied moulding, and it changes what a repaint has to do. Where the glaze stays, the new colour is built to sit over it without turning muddy. Where it goes, the profile has to be sanded out properly rather than painted over, or the old glaze reads through the topcoat as a dirty shadow.
Stain-grade cherry and walnut appear far more often in these kitchens than in a builder subdivision, and tannin bleed is a real risk on both. Shellac primer goes on before anything else. Where the wood is too good to cover, the cabinet refinishing page covers stripping and re-staining instead.
Cabinet Painting Against Stone And Tile Needs Masking That Holds For Days
Custom kitchens sit against quartz and granite counters, waterfall ends, full-height tile and hardwood that is often original to the build. Masking in these houses is not a strip of tape and a drop sheet. Counters are covered edge to edge, tile is papered, floors are protected along the whole route from the kitchen to the door, and the containment around the boxes stays sealed for the days the spraying takes.
Cabinet painting inside containment keeps overspray off everything else in an open-plan main floor, which matters more here than in a closed-off galley. Air is filtered and vented, and the equipment goes out at the end of each day rather than living in the hallway.
Custom Cabinet Painting Takes Longer Per Door Than A Builder Kitchen
A profiled door with applied moulding takes several times the cabinet painting prep of a slab. Every inside corner is sanded by hand, every joint gets checked, and the spray passes have to reach into the profile without building up in it. Sixty doors of that kind are a three-week job rather than a two-week one, and the shop schedule is set out at the quote stage.
An island in its own colour is so routine in these houses that it gets a separate line every time. The two-tone kitchens and island painting page describes that work.
Get A Counted Quote For A Custom Kitchen In Vaughan
Large kitchen cabinet painting jobs in Kleinburg, Woodbridge and Vellore Village are quoted after a proper count, not from a photo. Book the visit here or call +1 (289) 201-7165, and expect the walkthrough to take longer than it would in a smaller house. The full list of cabinet painting services is on the Vaughan Cabinet Painting home page.
A custom kitchen deserves a custom cabinet painting quote, with every door, moulding and end panel written down before a price is attached.
Custom Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
Why can a custom kitchen not be quoted from the doorway?
Forty to seventy doors is normal, and guessing thirty in a kitchen that holds sixty is how quotes go wrong. Stacked uppers, pantry doors, glass fronts, end panels and open shelving all belong in the count. The visit counts everything and writes it down.
How long does a large custom kitchen take?
A profiled door with applied moulding takes several times the prep of a slab. Every inside corner is sanded by hand. Sixty doors of that kind are a three-week job rather than a two-week one, and the shop schedule is set out at the quote stage.
Does a glazed finish have to come off?
It depends on the colour going over it. Where the glaze stays, the new colour is built to sit over it without turning muddy. Where it goes, the profile is sanded out properly, or the old glaze reads through as a dirty shadow. The visit decides which applies.