Doors, drawer fronts, face frames and carcasses all get stripped back, primed according to material, then sprayed. Cabinet painting at this scale changes a kitchen completely without moving a single cabinet.
Oakville kitchens tend to reach an age where the boxes are still sound and the finish is not. A 1990s maple or oak carcass in Glen Abbey or River Oaks will outlast much of what a showroom would sell to replace it, which is why cabinet painting answers the problem and a rebuild does not. Doors that are actually broken are handled through door replacement and painted in with the rest.
What A Kitchen Cabinet Painting Quote Names Before A Door Is Touched
A cabinet painting quote is a list rather than a figure. Doors get counted, drawer fronts get counted, and so do false fronts, exposed end panels and any open shelving, with the substrate written beside each group.
After the count come the decisions that move the price. Grain filling on oak, glaze removal on maple, interior box faces, a different colour for the island, hardware holes filled and rebored, and any door too far gone replaced. Each of those carries its own line. Primer and topcoat are named, coats are stated as a number, and the total is locked in before a single door is unscrewed.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Runs In The Same Order In Every House
Doors, drawer fronts and their hinges are taken off first and numbered against a photograph of the layout, so every piece returns to the opening it came from. Nothing is guessed at reassembly.
Degreasing comes next and it is the cabinet painting step nobody sees. Cooking grease and old wax sit in the profiles around the handles and above the range, and a bonding primer laid over either will let go inside a year. Cabinets carrying heavy wax want a solvent degreaser, because water-based cleaners leave it behind, and the quote shows that as an extra line.
Sanding, filling and caulking follow before any cabinet painting begins. Primer is then chosen by material: shellac for tannin in oak and cherry, a bonding type for slick melamine or laminate, ordinary adhesion primer for bare maple and MDF. That layer is sanded back. Then the topcoats, two or three of them, sprayed thin, with a light sand ahead of each.
How Many Days A Kitchen Is Unusable During Cabinet Painting
Doors and drawer fronts are away in the spray shop for roughly a week. The boxes never leave, and their contents never come out, so the room works as open shelving for that stretch.
Time worked inside the house is two to three days on most kitchens: pulling hardware, sanding, masking, containment, and spraying frames and boxes. End to end, a typical job in town runs one to three weeks depending on piece count and colour. Sprayed application is what sets that pace, because each coat has to flash off before the next.
Cure and dry are separate stages of cabinet painting. Waterborne alkyd enamel takes roughly a week to become hard enough for everyday use and about a month to finish hardening. Two-component polyurethane arrives there within a day. Doors go back on either way; the instruction is simply to be gentle at first.
What Cabinet Painting Costs Next To New Cabinetry In This Market
Local cabinet painting is quoted in door-count bands. Ten to twenty-four pieces usually lands around $2,500 to $2,900, twenty-five to thirty-nine around $3,000 to $3,900, forty to fifty-four around $4,000 to $4,900, and fifty-five and up starts at $5,000 and rises with complexity. Deep colours, two-tone work and grain filling all add.
A new kitchen in this town runs $25,000 to $75,000, with the cabinetry alone taking thirty to forty percent of that. Refacing falls between cabinet painting and replacement, roughly $3,000 to $10,000. Treat all of that as market range and nothing more. Only the written quote produced at the visit gives the number for a particular kitchen.
Cabinet Painting That Fails Usually Fails For One Of Five Reasons
Peeling traces back to grease left sitting in the profiles, sanding skipped altogether, a primer mismatched to the material, wall paint put on cabinetry, or doors shut before the finish had cured. Wall paint is the most common of the five and the most expensive to undo.
Chipping shows up first around handles and at cutlery drawers, the pieces handled twenty times a day. Tannin bleed shows as pink or brown shadows at door edges and comes from waterborne primer on oak or cherry. Every one of these is a prep decision, which is why prep takes more of the schedule than paint does.
Built-In Cabinet Painting Happens In The House, Not In A Shop
Nothing screwed to a wall can go to a spray booth. Where doors exist they come off, but shelving, carcass, face frame and crown are all coated where they stand.
That means containment: plastic sealed over openings, floors covered, adjoining rooms closed off and extraction running. Cabinet painting done this way takes longer per piece than shop work, because the setup is rebuilt for each area, and it is quoted accordingly.
Soft-Close Hinges Fit The Cup Bores That Are Already There
Cabinet painting rarely forces a hinge change, because European cup hinges have used a thirty-five millimetre bore and a standard mounting plate for decades, which means a soft-close hinge usually fits the hole that is already there.
Doors are off for cabinet painting anyway, so the swap adds almost no labour. Where the kitchen has face-frame cabinets with wrap-around hinges instead, the options are narrower and sometimes a surface-mounted damper is the better answer. Either way the doors go back hanging straight, with the gaps adjusted so the run reads level, which is the last step of every job.
Book A Free Visit And Get Kitchen Cabinet Painting Priced In Writing
Forty minutes or so covers a cabinet painting visit, and it carries no charge. The pieces get counted, the materials identified, the boxes checked for water damage, and a written quote is left behind with every decision priced on a line of its own. Send a message from the contact page, look over the range of cabinet work available, or call +1 (289) 206-6886 and pick a time.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
How long is the kitchen out of use?
Doors and drawer fronts are away in the spray shop for roughly a week. Boxes never leave and their contents stay put, so the room works as open shelving. Time worked inside the house is two to three days, and a typical job runs one to three weeks end to end.
Why does degreasing matter so much?
Cooking grease and old wax sit in the profiles around handles and above the range. A bonding primer laid over either lets go inside a year. Heavy wax needs a solvent degreaser because water-based cleaners leave it behind, and the quote shows that as an extra line.
What does the written quote include?
It lists doors, drawer fronts, false fronts, end panels and open shelving, with the material beside each group. Grain filling, glaze removal, island colour, hardware holes and replacement doors each get their own line. Primer and topcoat are named, coats are counted and the total is set before work starts.