Cabinet Painting Questions From Vaughan Homeowners

For 2026 the Ontario range on a full kitchen is commonly $2,500 to $5,500. A galley or a small kitchen can begin around $1,500, while a big or two-colour job climbs into the $6,000 to $9,000 bracket and past it. Per door, figure on $130 to $250. Custom kitchens carrying sixty or seventy doors sit above that. Those are market ranges, and the written quote after the free visit is the price that applies.

Forty to seventy is normal in the custom-built houses of Kleinburg, Islington Woods and Vellore Village once the butler's pantry, the island, the display cabinets and any basement second kitchen are counted. That is why custom cabinet painting is quoted from a full count rather than a rough one, and why they take three weeks rather than two.

Not by default. Interiors are usually melamine in reasonable condition, and painting them adds significant labour to a surface that sits behind a closed door. They are quoted as a separate line for anyone who wants them, and they are worth doing on glass-front uppers and open shelving.

Intact ones can, given a waterborne bonding primer underneath sprayed colour. Where the film has bubbled or lifted, which usually starts on the bottom rail next to the dishwasher, no coating will pull it back down. Those doors are stripped to bare MDF or replaced and sprayed to match, and either way they appear as their own line on the quote.

Spraying needs a shop booth for the doors, sealed containment for the boxes, and the time thin coats and inter-coat sanding take. What it buys is a smooth, hard surface with no brush texture that lasts years longer. Brushed enamel leaves ridges that collect grease and give chipping somewhere to start.

It depends on the colour going over it. A glaze sitting in the profile can stay under a darker colour built to suit it, but under a clean white it has to be sanded out properly or it reads through as a dirty shadow. Which applies to a given kitchen is decided at the visit, and the cabinet painting quote says which way it is going.

It never is. Work inside the house takes two or three days, the doors are out at the shop for a week to ten days, and the boxes stand open as shelving in the meantime with every appliance still running.

Solid five-piece doors can open a hairline where the panel meets the frame during January and February, when forced-air heat drops indoor humidity to twenty or thirty percent. The line closes again by summer. It is wood movement rather than finish failure, and flexible waterborne coatings handle it better than brittle ones.

Yes, and those rules are dealt with before the date is set. Insurance paperwork goes to management, the service elevator is booked and padded, the loading dock window is arranged, and the doors are sprayed off site so no odour reaches the corridors.

Not where prep and cure were respected. Wear shows first at handle height and on the cutlery drawer, and the causes never vary: paint over grease, no primer or the wrong one, heavy brushwork, or a kitchen put back into service before the film hardened. Done properly, those spots hold for years.

Mild soap on a soft cloth, and no abrasives at all. Hardening carries on for weeks after rehanging, so wipe spills quickly and keep weight off the doors until then. Once cured, the surface handles ordinary kitchen cleaning.

Yes. Every job is fully insured, and the paperwork can be seen before work begins. Condo buildings ask for that proof before a date is confirmed, so it goes to management with the booking.