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.
Fronts are coated off-site in our booth, while boxes are coated where they hang inside sealed sheeting. Each part gets the setting it needs for a clean finish.
A brushed finish is thicker in some places and thinner in others. The thick spots stay soft longer and the thin spots wear through first. Spraying puts down a thin, even film that cures hard all the way through.
That even film is what stands up to hands at the pulls, knocks from pots, and wiping every day. It is the main reason sprayed cabinet painting outlasts a brushed job by years. It also looks better under the large windows found in so many Erindale homes, where low side light shows every ridge.
Thick coats take longer to cure, stay soft and chip sooner. Our method is two or three light coats with gentle sanding in between. Each thin layer bonds to the one below it, and the result is harder and smoother than one heavy coat.
Every front is labelled, unscrewed and carried out to our booth. There the air is filtered, the temperature is steady and each piece lies flat while it dries, so dust does not land in the wet paint.
Since boxes stay fixed, the kitchen gets closed off with sheeting, floors and counters get covered, and fans exhaust the overspray outdoors. That stage of the cabinet painting normally fills one day, and every other room remains open to you. Splitting cabinet spray painting between the booth and the house keeps the time your kitchen is sealed off as short as possible.
Wall paint stays slightly soft for its whole life, which is fine for a wall and wrong for a door touched many times a day. Cabinet painting needs a coating built for furniture. We use one of two cabinet coatings. Water-based alkyd enamel levels out nicely and can be tinted to nearly any shade. Two-part urethane mixes in a hardener and cures much harder and faster.
Both are low-odour. The quote says which one your kitchen gets. For older oak and melamine, the primer matters as much as the topcoat, and those details are on the oak cabinet painting and thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting pages.
Spray coats dry slower in muggy weather, and houses near the Credit River valley can hold more damp than those farther from it. On humid days we allow more time between coats and run a dehumidifier in the sealed kitchen during cabinet painting. That keeps the finish from blushing or staying soft.
Navy, forest green and charcoal show every flaw more than white does. For these colours, cabinet spray painting uses a tinted primer and often a third coat to get full, even coverage. We check each door under a bright light between coats and sand out any dust before the next one goes on.
Dark colours also show fingerprints on a matte sheen, so we usually suggest satin for deep shades. That small choice makes a big difference in how the cabinet painting looks after a year of daily use.
Spraying in a lived-in kitchen means covering everything that should not get paint. We cover the counters, the floor, the appliances, the windows and the walls around the cabinets, and we seal doorways with plastic and zip doors. That setup often takes longer than the spraying itself.
When the in-house cabinet painting is done, we remove the masking the same day and clean up. The kitchen is ready to use once the boxes are dry to the touch, usually by that evening. See kitchen cabinet painting for the full schedule.
After tallying the pieces and confirming the material, we write up the product, sheen and coat count. You pay nothing for the visit or the cabinet painting quote. Call +1 (289) 207-0026, send the kitchen details, or return to our main Erindale 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
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 Hinges
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.
See Colour ConsultationWe 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.
