One door from your kitchen is sprayed in your chosen shade and stays on site for a few days of viewing. Cabinet colour consultation settles the choice in your real light before any cabinet painting begins.
A small paint chip does not show how a colour will look across thirty doors. A full door, sprayed with the same product that will go on the kitchen, does.
Colour grows stronger across a large area. A soft grey on a chip can look much darker across a full wall of cabinets. A white can pick up the colour of the floor or the counter. We spray a real door in your chosen colour and sheen so you see the true result.
The test door stays put for several days, letting you check it at sunrise, at dusk and with the overhead lights on. A sample costs far less than repainting a kitchen, and it takes the guesswork out of cabinet painting.
Many Erindale homes face the Credit River valley, Erindale Park or the woods near Riverwood. Leaves filter the light green in summer, and bare trees let in cool, bright light in winter. A colour that works in one season can look different in the next.
We suggest testing warm and cool versions of the same colour side by side in these kitchens. For ravine homes, this step is the most useful part of the whole cabinet painting process. Our ravine home cabinet painting page explains more about light in these homes.
Matte hides small dents but shows fingerprints. Most people land on satin for cabinet painting, since it wipes clean without glare. Semi-gloss is the toughest and easiest to clean but shows every flaw. We spray the sample in the sheen you plan to use so you can judge both at once.
The counter and the floor are usually staying, so the colour must suit them. We hold the sample door against the counter, the backsplash and the floor, and look for undertones that clash. In two-colour kitchens we sample the pair side by side, as described under two-tone kitchens and island painting.
A light colour over an existing white or pale finish is the simplest cabinet painting job. Going from dark to light, or from light to a deep colour like navy, often needs an extra coat. Very dark colours may also need a tinted primer. We tell you at the visit if your colour choice changes the price.
White is still the most requested cabinet painting colour, but greige, sage, soft blue and charcoal are close behind. In Erindale ravine kitchens, warmer whites and muted greens tend to hold up best across the seasons. Pairing ideas appear under two-tone kitchens and island painting.
We charge nothing to visit or to write the quote, and the test door appears as its own line. Call +1 (289) 207-0026, tell us which colours you like, or return to the Erindale Cabinet Painting home page.
Vanities, pantries, laundry rooms and basement built-ins in Erindale split-levels are primed and sprayed like the kitchen.
Each front comes off, gets scrubbed, sanded and primed to suit what it is made of, then receives a tough sprayed enamel and goes back on. Kitchen cabinet painting gives the room a fresh colour, and your counters, sink and flooring are never disturbed.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Houses that back onto the Credit River valley tend to have big windows, shifting light and larger kitchens with more doors than a standard subdivision home. Ravine home cabinet painting plans the colour, the coating and the schedule around those three things.
See Ravine Homes
Tannin in oak seeps through ordinary primer, which is why oak cabinet painting always begins under a shellac stain blocker. From there, the grain can be filled for a flat look or kept open for visible texture.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet refinishing leaves the wood on show: the worn clear coat comes off, stain shifts the tone, and a new sprayed topcoat protects it. Pick it over paint when the timber deserves to be seen.
See Refinishing
Sprayed cabinet painting puts primer and enamel down in fine, uniform layers that cure smooth, free of brush lines or roller stipple. That is how a repainted kitchen gets a finish that looks factory-made.
See Spray Painting
Slick factory doors need a bonding primer before paint will stick, and thermofoil has to be tight to the board before it can be painted at all. Thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting starts by checking every door for lifting or swelling.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Hanging fresh fronts on the boxes already in place sits between cabinet painting and a full new kitchen. Single ruined doors can be swapped too, then sprayed so they blend with their neighbours.
See Refacing and New Doors
Pale outer cabinets around a deep-toned island, or rich lowers beneath soft uppers, add depth to a kitchen without any renovation. Two-tone cabinet painting and island-only jobs are among the most requested work we do.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Vanities go through the full clean, prime and spray routine a kitchen gets, using products picked to cope with steam and splashes. Vanity cabinet painting is usually done in a day or two and costs far less than a new vanity.
See Bathroom Vanities
Every door and drawer front leaves the unit to be sprayed in our booth, so the condo stays livable and the building's air stays clean. Condo kitchen cabinet work is planned around elevator bookings and building rules as much as around the kitchen.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry walls, laundry cupboards, mudroom lockers, bookcases and family room units go through the kitchen's full clean, prime and spray routine. Since most are anchored to walls, built-in cabinet work happens right where they stand.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Fitting fresh pulls and quiet-closing hinges is simplest when the doors are down for painting anyway. Cabinet hardware changes finish a cabinet painting job and fix doors that sag, rub or slam.
See Hardware and HingesWe walk through the house, count each piece, note the wood or board and itemize the job. The visit and the quote are both free.
Give us a few lines on the kitchen and the house, then watch for our call to set a time. A name and number are enough. Prefer the phone? Call +1 (289) 207-0026.
