Kitchen cabinet painting puts fresh colour and a tough sprayed coat on the cabinets you already own, with counters, sink and boxes left in place. Doors come off, get cleaned, sanded and primed for their material, then return with two or three smooth coats.
Erin Mills kitchens were built over about three decades, so no two jobs start from the same place. A 1970s townhouse near South Common, a 1980s oak kitchen west of Glen Erin Drive and a 1990s white melamine kitchen in Central Erin Mills each need different preparation. The layout of the job also changes for townhouses, which have their own page at townhouse kitchen cabinet painting.
Our cabinet painting quote starts with three counts: doors, drawer fronts and boxes. Everything else is priced from those numbers.
Next come material, primer, topcoat, sheen and coat count, each written out. Extra items get their own lines. Interiors, crown trim, glazed fronts, patched pull holes and new pulls all fall in that group. If anything changes once the work starts, you get a new written line before we do it.
Cabinet painting holds up only when every step happens in order. First, every front is labelled and taken down, hinges go in bags and photos record the layout.
Degreasing comes next, and it matters most. A kitchen that has cooked meals for thirty or forty years carries a film of grease that soap and water only smear around. Heavy build-up gets a stronger degreaser. After that, dents are filled, all faces are scuffed dull and a matched primer goes on. Oak gets a shellac-based primer, and melamine gets a bonding primer.
Enamel then goes on in two or three light passes, sanded lightly in between. Fronts go to the booth and boxes are handled on site, as described under cabinet spray painting.
Expect us inside your home for two or three working days on a typical kitchen. The full kitchen cabinet painting job is usually finished within two weeks from the day the doors leave. Deep colours like navy and charcoal can need a third coat, which adds a little time.
You keep the sink, stove and fridge the whole time. The shelves hold your dishes while the doors are away. Box-spraying day is the only one that feels disruptive.
Dry is not the same as cured. Give waterborne enamel roughly seven gentle days, and know that it keeps firming up for weeks afterward. Humid July weather in Mississauga slows that cure, so we tell you when to take extra care.
In GTA terms, cabinet painting a whole kitchen typically lands from $2,500 up to $5,500. Small kitchens can start near $1,500. Bigger rooms and two-colour layouts may climb into the $6,000 to $9,000 band. Priced door by door, figures fall near $130 to $250.
Refacing, meaning fresh fronts hung on the boxes you keep, generally sits between $3,000 and $10,000. A full replacement starts around $15,000 and can pass $40,000. Bonding primer, grain filling and interiors all add to any of these numbers. Treat those as market bands; your own written quote is what you actually pay.
If new counters, tile or a new sink are coming, those go in first. Dropping a new top onto freshly finished cabinet painting risks chips and scratches.
If the counters are staying, we match the colour to them. A sprayed sample door in your chosen shade can sit beside that counter for several days. See cabinet colour consultation for how sampling works.
Our visit is free and usually wraps up inside an hour. We tally fronts, confirm the material, study the most worn door and leave a written kitchen cabinet painting quote you can compare. Phone +1 (289) 206-9908, describe your kitchen online, or browse our Erin Mills home page for every service.
The bathroom vanity, the laundry uppers and the hall shelving in a South Common town get the kitchen's exact coating system.
Townhouse kitchens are compact, usually galley or L-shaped, and the cabinet painting work has to fit around shared walls, visitor parking and condo complex rules. The boxes stay in place, the doors leave for spraying, and the family keeps cooking.
See Townhouses
Oak cabinet painting begins with shellac primer, which locks brown tannin inside the wood so it never stains your new colour. After that, deep pores are either packed flat with filler or allowed to show as soft texture.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet refinishing keeps the wood grain in view by stripping or sanding the old clear coat, adjusting the stain and spraying a fresh protective finish. It is the right choice over paint when the wood itself is worth showing.
See Refinishing
Cabinet spray painting lays down thin, level coats of hard enamel that dry without brush marks or roller texture. In our cabinet painting work, doors get sprayed in a filtered booth and the boxes get sprayed at home behind plastic sheeting.
See Spray Painting
Glossy factory fronts accept new colour after hand scuffing and an adhesion primer built for plastic faces. Peeling thermofoil is different, so we strip or swap those fronts before cabinet painting starts.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Cabinet refacing hangs brand-new fronts on the boxes you keep, and those boxes get coated or skinned to match. It suits kitchens where the boxes are solid but the doors are damaged, dated in shape or too worn for cabinet painting alone.
See Refacing and New Doors
Two-tone cabinet painting uses a darker colour on the island or lower cabinets and a lighter colour above. An island-only job brings in colour while leaving everything else alone.
See Two-Tone and Islands
A bathroom vanity gets the same degreasing, primer and sprayed enamel as a kitchen, with extra care for moisture and steam. No cabinet painting job in your home is smaller, and one or two days usually covers it.
See Bathroom Vanities
Condo kitchens are small, and the cabinet work schedule has to follow building rules for elevators, loading and working hours. The doors leave the unit for spraying, so odour stays low and the kitchen keeps working.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry units, laundry uppers, mudroom lockers and fitted shelving receive kitchen-grade primer and sprayed enamel. Adding them to kitchen cabinet work lowers the cost per cabinet and makes the whole house match.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Fresh pulls, knobs and quiet hinges complete a painted kitchen, and fitting them goes quickest with every front already down. Before cabinet painting, unused pull holes are packed and sanded so no trace survives under the colour.
See Hardware and Hinges
Choosing a colour is easier with a real sprayed door in your kitchen than with a small paint chip. We spray a sample in the colour you are considering and leave it in your room so you can see it in your own light before the cabinet painting starts.
See Colour ConsultationSomeone stops by, tallies each front, checks the material and lists the work in detail. The trip and the price sheet are free.
Fill in what you can about the kitchen, and we will phone to settle on a day. We just need a way to reach you. Or skip the form and call +1 (289) 206-9908.
