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.
Most Erindale kitchens fall into one of a handful of groups. A 1960s bungalow in Credit Woodlands, a 1980s split-level with golden oak and a newer custom home on a ravine lot each need different preparation, and the price follows that. Larger ravine kitchens have their own page at ravine home cabinet painting.
Every honest cabinet painting quote is built on three tallies: doors, drawers and boxes. Every other line on the page is built from those counts, so we count them in person.
After the tallies come the material, the matching primer, the enamel, its sheen and the coat count. Cabinet interiors are a separate line because shelves and box sides nearly double the area to spray. Extras such as crown moulding, glazed doors, plugging old holes and supplying pulls are priced one by one. That way you can remove any extra and see how it changes the cabinet painting total. Should the scope shift midway, a fresh line is written up and agreed before anyone does the extra work.
Cleaning is the step that decides whether the finish lasts. Decades of frying leave a residue that household sprays barely touch, and no paint can bond to it. We scrub every surface with a strong degreaser, rinse it, and let it dry before sanding.
In older Erindale houses the worst grease sits on the face frames beside the range and on the cabinet above the fridge. Those spots get extra attention and sometimes a solvent cleaner, which is listed on the quote. Once clean, the surfaces are filled, sanded evenly and primed with a product chosen for that material.
Two or three light enamel coats come next, with a gentle scuff in between. Fronts get their coats in our booth, and boxes get theirs on site inside plastic sheeting. Why a sprayer outperforms a brush is covered under cabinet spray painting.
Expect us inside the house for two or three working days, with all of the cabinet painting wrapped up roughly two weeks after the fronts arrive at the booth. Rich shades such as navy or charcoal sometimes need an extra coat, which stretches the timeline slightly.
The kitchen stays in use the whole way through. Plates and bowls stay on the open shelving meanwhile, and the single inconvenient day comes when the room is sealed for a few hours so the boxes can be coated.
Dry and hard are not the same. Waterborne enamel is safe for gentle use after about a week and keeps curing for a few weeks after that. Two-part urethane is hard overnight.
Mississauga pricing for a whole kitchen usually sits from $2,500 to $5,500. Compact rooms begin around $1,500, and big or two-colour rooms can climb to $6,000 to $9,000 or higher. Each door works out near $130 to $250.
New fronts on your existing boxes cost more, usually $3,000 to $10,000. Tearing out and replacing everything begins close to $15,000 and frequently tops $40,000. Bonding primer for melamine and grain fill for oak both add to a cabinet painting price. Treat those as market figures; your own written quote holds the real number.
Primer has one job, which is to hold the topcoat to the door. A primer made for drywall will not hold on oak, melamine or an old lacquer finish. Kitchen cabinet painting in Erindale means choosing a primer for each surface we find, and one room can hold two or three different materials.
A 1970s kitchen might have oak doors, painted plywood boxes and a laminate end panel that was added later. Each of those surfaces gets its own primer before the topcoats go on. The quote names each one, so you know the cabinet painting was planned for your kitchen and not a generic one. For oak preparation, see oak cabinet painting.
The visit is free and usually takes under an hour. During the visit we tally the doors, confirm the material, inspect the roughest door, and later send a written cabinet painting quote to weigh against others. Call +1 (289) 207-0026, describe your kitchen, or head back to all of our Erindale cabinet services.
Vanities, pantries, laundry rooms and basement built-ins in Erindale split-levels are primed and sprayed like the kitchen.
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 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.
