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.
Kitchens in Central Erin Mills and Erin Meadows often have islands or peninsulas from the late 1980s and 1990s. Those islands are a natural place for a deeper shade like navy, sage or charcoal.
Each colour needs its own primer tint, its own spray setup and its own cleaning between runs. The doors are sorted into two groups before they leave the house. The boxes in the kitchen are masked so each colour stays on its own cabinets.
That extra work adds to the price. Across the GTA, a separate island shade on top of a full kitchen tends to add $800 to $2,000, depending on island size and colour depth.
A dark island with light perimeter cabinets keeps the walls bright and makes the island the centre of the room. Dark lowers with light uppers ground the room and hide scuffs from feet and bags.
In a narrow townhouse galley, dark lowers work better than a dark full run, which can make the room feel smaller. In an open kitchen with a large island, a dark island gives the room a focal point. We talk through the layout with you at the visit.
A kitchen facing north has cool, even light. A kitchen facing south or west gets warm, strong light in the afternoon. The same navy or sage can look very different in each.
Sample fronts in both shades stay in your kitchen for several days. That lets you see both colours together in morning, afternoon and evening light. Read about the cabinet colour consultation for more on how we test colours.
The countertop and floor usually stay, so the cabinet colours need to work with them. Warm wood floors pair well with sage, cream and warm white. Cool grey tile pairs well with navy and charcoal. A busy granite counter often looks best with a calm, simple colour on the cabinets.
We hold the sample doors against your counter and floor before you decide. That is the easiest way to avoid a two-tone kitchen that clashes.
Painting only the island is one of the smallest kitchen jobs we do. Its fronts travel to our booth while its base gets coated where it stands. Most island cabinet painting is finished within a few days.
It is a good choice if your perimeter cabinets are already white or in good shape. A navy, green or charcoal island adds colour to the room without changing the rest of the kitchen. It also lets you live with a strong shade before putting it everywhere.
The back and ends of the island face the family room or eating area, so they get the same careful finish as the fronts. If the island has open shelves or a seating overhang, we include those surfaces in the two-tone cabinet painting quote so nothing is left out.
A galley kitchen has no island, but it can still use two colours. One popular route pairs darker base units with pale wall units. The light uppers keep the narrow room bright, while the darker lowers hide scuffs near the floor.
Another option in a townhouse galley is to paint only the tall pantry or the cabinets around the fridge in the accent colour. That adds interest without making the room feel smaller. Sample fronts for each approach are ready before cabinet painting begins.
We tally fronts, map out which units take each shade and put the plan in writing for free. Dial +1 (289) 206-9908, name your favourite shades, or return to our home page. New pulls are covered under cabinet hardware and soft-close hinges.
The bathroom vanity, the laundry uppers and the hall shelving in a South Common town get the kitchen's exact coating system.
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.
See Kitchen Cabinets
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
