Barrie Cabinet Painting
Barrie, Ontario ยท On Kempenfelt Bay
Barrie Cabinet Painting sprays and refinishes kitchen cabinets, islands, bathroom vanities and built-in units for households in Barrie, Innisfil, Springwater and Oro-Medonte, and handles refacing when doors are past saving. All of our work is fully insured. Both the visit to your home and the quote that follows it cost nothing, and that quote spells out how many doors and drawers there are, the prep involved, which product goes on, the coat count and the total.
Call +1 (705) 230-7220.
A door count, even a rough one, plus the colour you are leaning toward is enough for us to book the free visit. Or call +1 (705) 230-7220.
The order of work never changes, because that order is what makes cabinet painting last. Each door and each drawer front comes down and gets tagged. Grease comes off, the surface is sanded, a primer suited to the material goes on, and the colour is built up in thin sprayed passes with a scuff sand between them. Boxes get sprayed inside the kitchen behind sealed poly while the doors travel to the shop.
The quote is on paper before any of that starts. It records the count of doors and drawers, their material, the primer and topcoat chosen, the coat count and the total. Cabinet painting quotes only compare fairly when both list those items, and ours does every time. Our about page goes deeper into the method, and the visit gets booked through the contact page.
We also say no when no is the right answer. Lifting thermofoil, particleboard swollen by a leak and doors with crumbling edges make poor cabinet painting candidates, and you hear that from us at the visit.
Thirteen cabinet painting pages cover every cabinet a house holds, from the kitchen to the vanity, the built-ins and the cottage.
Kitchen cabinet painting starts with the doors, the drawer fronts and the boxes already in the house, cuts the grease and old sheen off them, primes each for its material and sprays on a new colour that cures hard enough for everyday use.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Tannins in golden oak get sealed under shellac before anything else happens. Filler then closes the open pores until they disappear, and sprayed colour finishes doors that were solid all along. Oak cabinet painting suits them well.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet spray painting is sprayed cabinet painting: primer and topcoat go on as a fine mist in thin, even passes, so doors and boxes finish with a smooth, level film free of brush ridges, roller stipple and thick edges that chip.
See Spray Painting
Thermofoil, melamine and laminate doors take paint only over a bonding primer made to grip slick factory surfaces, followed by a sprayed topcoat, which lets doors that would otherwise shed ordinary paint within months hold a new finish instead.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Two-tone work puts one colour on the perimeter cabinets and another on the island or lower run, giving a plain kitchen depth and a focal point without buying a single new cabinet.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Cabinet refinishing leaves the wood on display: the worn finish gets stripped or sanded away, fresh stain goes on where the colour is shifting, and instead of paint the doors get sealed beneath a sprayed clear coat.
See Refinishing
Refacing means fresh doors and drawer fronts hung on boxes worth keeping, while a single damaged door simply gets swapped for a new one; old and new then pass through one booth together so nothing looks different.
See Refacing and New Doors
Cottage kitchen cabinet painting deals with knotty pine that bleeds through paint, small kitchens that need to stay usable, and buildings that are cold and closed for half the year, by using shellac primer and timing the work for the warm months.
See Cottage Kitchens
Hardware and hinge work fills old handle holes, drills fresh ones on a template once the finish has cured, and swaps tired self-closing hinges for soft-close ones, so new pulls and quiet doors arrive with the new colour.
See Hardware and Hinges
Bathroom vanity painting brings the kitchen routine of degreasing, priming and a sprayed topcoat to the small cabinet under the sink, over one or two days, paying extra attention to the doors that sit closest to the water.
See Bathroom Vanities
Pantry, laundry and built-in work covers cabinetry that cannot travel to a booth, from walk-in pantries and laundry or mudroom runs to fireplace wall units, mantels and bookcases, every piece sprayed in place inside a sealed enclosure.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Small galleys, building rules, elevator bookings and parking are what condo kitchen cabinet painting has to manage, so doors go out for spraying and the unit stays livable while the boxes take a day or two.
See Condo Kitchens
A cabinet colour consultation fixes the colour and sheen ahead of cabinet painting by spraying one of your own doors in the real product and leaving it in the kitchen, so the decision gets made under the room's own light.
See Colour ConsultationCabinet painting costs a small share of what a new kitchen does. Across Ontario a whole kitchen most often comes in between $2,500 and $5,500, while new cabinets in the same footprint start near $15,000 and climb quickly.
The kitchen stays put. Boxes, countertop, plumbing and backsplash are left alone, which means no demolition, no dumpster in the driveway and no weeks of eating out.
Sprayed cabinet painting produces a smooth, factory-style surface without brush marks. Applied in thin sprayed passes, waterborne alkyd enamel and 2K polyurethane both level out and cure hard.
Cabinet painting opens up any colour. A golden oak kitchen from 1994 becomes warm white, sage or charcoal, and one of its own doors sprayed in that colour shows you the result before the job begins.
Cabinet painting is done in days, not months. Most kitchens see two or three days of work on site, and the doors are back on within about two weeks.
Well-done cabinet painting outlasts a do-it-yourself job by years, because the difference is in the degreasing, the primer, the spraying and the cure, not in the can of paint.
Doors get counted, the material gets checked, and one of your own doors gets sprayed in the colour under consideration. A written quote covering every part of the job follows.
Oak is the most common cabinet in Barrie and oak cabinet painting succeeds when the open grain is dealt with first. Letitia Heights, Painswick North and the first phases of Holly were built through the 1980s and 1990s, when honey oak raised-panel doors with cathedral arches were the builder standard. Those doors are still sound, but the colour dates the whole house.
Two things make oak cabinet painting last. Shellac primer locks in the tannins that would otherwise bleed pink and yellow through a white topcoat, and grain filler worked in over two or three rounds closes the open pores so the sprayed surface reads smooth. Owners who like the grain visible under paint can skip the filler, and that choice costs less.
Slick factory surfaces reject ordinary paint, which is why do-it-yourself cabinet painting on melamine peels within a year. The builder-grade kitchens in Painswick South, East Bayfield and the south-end condos from 2005 onward are mostly thermofoil over MDF or laminate over particleboard. They can be painted, but only with a true bonding primer that grips a glossy surface, and only when the thermofoil is still tight to the door.
Painting thermofoil, melamine and laminate doors begins by checking every door near the dishwasher and range, since heat and steam loosen thermofoil there first. Once a door has begun to peel, no paint puts it back. That door is either stripped to bare MDF or swapped for a new one, and the quote states which.
A sprayed finish is the single biggest difference between professional cabinet painting and a weekend job. Brushed enamel leaves ridges and lap marks on a shaker door, and rolled enamel leaves a stipple. Neither looks like a factory finish, and both hold dirt in the texture.
Cabinet spray painting sends every door and drawer front to a filtered booth, where they lie flat and receive thin passes with a sanding between each. Boxes and face frames get sprayed in the kitchen inside a sealed plastic enclosure. What comes out is a level, hard film that wipes clean and matches from door to box.
Two-tone kitchens account for most of the colour requests we hear in Barrie lately. Open-plan kitchens in Holly, Ardagh and the newer streets off Mapleview Drive almost always centre on an island, and a navy, forest green or natural wood island set against white or greige perimeter cabinets is what shows up in every listing photo.
Island and two-tone painting pairs the colours so they sit well together in the room's light, and treats the island as its own cabinet painting job whenever the perimeter is already fine. On its own, an island often takes two days.
Cherry, walnut and white oak are worth keeping when the wood itself is good and only the finish has worn. Kitchens from the 2000s in Painswick South and around Big Bay Point Road often have cherry or dark-stained maple that has yellowed and scratched around the sink and the stove.
Cabinet refinishing removes the old finish by stripping or sanding, adds fresh stain where the colour is moving, and locks the wood under a clear coat sprayed with the same care as paint. We say plainly which kitchens belong in this category, because painting every kitchen it walks into is not how a cabinet painting company gives honest advice.
A single door that has delaminated, swollen or cracked gets replaced and then painted alongside the rest, so it disappears into the cabinet painting. That is the usual answer and it costs a fraction of refacing. Once most doors are beyond saving while the boxes remain square and dry, new fronts on the old boxes become the next step.
Refacing and door replacement covers both situations. New shaker fronts go through the same booth as everything else, so colour and sheen line up exactly. Ontario refacing generally runs $3,000 to $10,000, well below the $15,000 to $40,000 that replacement costs.
Knotty pine and unheated winters are the two things that set cottage kitchen cabinet painting apart from work in town. Barrie is the last real city before the cottage roads north on Highway 11 and Highway 400, and the kitchens on Lake Simcoe, along the Innisfil shoreline and up through Oro-Medonte are mostly small, mostly pine or dated oak, and mostly cold from November to April.
Cottage kitchen cabinet painting uses a shellac primer on every knot, because pine knots bleed through anything else, and it is scheduled between May and October when the building is warm enough for the finish to cure. When that does not suit, the doors come to the shop over the winter and go back on at opening.
Hardware is decided before cabinet painting starts, because the holes for a new pull rarely line up with the holes from the old one. The 1990s kitchens across Barrie mostly carry a single knob or a short arch pull, and the bar pulls everyone wants now need new holes on a different spacing.
Hardware and hinge work fills and sands the old holes, primes them and, once the cabinet painting has cured, drills fresh holes on a template. Old self-closing hinges give way to soft-close ones in the same pass, and brass, black and brushed nickel each suit the current colours.
Most vanities are painted in one or two days and are usually bundled with kitchen cabinet painting. The same golden oak or thermofoil that is in the kitchen is in the ensuite and the main bath, and a vanity that is done on the same visit costs less than one done on its own.
Bathroom vanity painting follows the same degrease, prime and spray routine as the kitchen, with extra care given to the doors below the sink where years of moisture collect. A vanity that has swelled from a leak gets flagged at the visit, because paint cannot fix swollen particleboard.
Cabinetry fixed to the wall cannot travel to the shop, so it gets sprayed in place. Walk-in pantries, the laundry and mudroom runs built into newer homes in Holly and Ardagh, fireplace wall units, mantels and bookcases all receive the same cabinet painting inside a sealed enclosure.
Painting pantries, laundry rooms and built-ins is usually folded into a kitchen job, since the sprayer and the plastic are already in the house. A wall unit by itself typically takes one or two days.
Galley kitchens in the buildings along Dunlop Street, Lakeshore Drive and near Allandale Waterfront are small, mostly melamine or thermofoil, and subject to building rules. Doors leave the building so the spraying, noise and dust stay out of it, and the boxes take a day or two while the corridor and elevator stay protected.
Condo kitchen cabinet painting covers the building logistics, from booking the elevator to where the van parks, as well as the bonding primer that melamine needs. A small galley is the least expensive kitchen cabinet painting job we do.
Colour gets chosen on one of your own doors, painted for real and viewed in your kitchen's light, before any cabinet painting begins. Warm white, greige, sage, navy and charcoal are what people request, yet a warm white that looks right on a chip can turn yellow beside cool quartz, and navy can read as black in a north-facing kitchen in January.
Cabinet colour consultation comes with every cabinet painting quote. One of your doors is sprayed in the colour and sheen you are considering and stays on your counter for a few days. Any colour from the major paint decks can be matched.
Four things set a kitchen cabinet painting price: how many doors and drawers there are, what they are made of, how big the colour change is, and whether an island or built-ins are part of it. Ontario market figures for 2026 place a whole kitchen most often at $2,500 to $5,500, a small kitchen from around $1,500, and a large or two-tone kitchen at $6,000 to $9,000 and up, with a single door somewhere near $130 to $250.
Those figures describe the market, not our prices. What applies to your kitchen is the written quote produced after the free visit, which breaks out doors, drawers, boxes, prep, primer, topcoat and coats so nothing gets added later.
We visit, count doors and drawers, identify the material and note where it has worn, and discuss colour. A written quote arrives inside a day or two with a price against every part of the job.
Day one of cabinet painting is removal: doors and drawer fronts come down and get tagged by position, hardware goes into labelled bags, and the kitchen is wrapped in plastic. Then everything gets degreased and sanded.
Doors head to the shop, where each gets primed for its material, grain-filled where needed, and sprayed in thin passes with a sanding between each. Boxes get primed and sprayed in the kitchen inside the enclosure on the same schedule.
The doors come back after the finish has hardened enough to handle, usually a week to ten days after they left. They are hung, the hinges are adjusted, the new hardware goes on and the kitchen is cleaned.
We go over every door with you, note anything needing a touch-up, and leave written care notes explaining how gently the finish should be treated through its first month of curing.
Kitchens, islands and vanities sprayed in the colours their owners chose on a sample door first.
We work across the city, from Allandale, the East End and Cundles through Letitia Heights, Painswick, Holly, Ardagh and East Bayfield to the new streets in Hewitt's and Innis-Shore. South of the city we cover Innisfil, including Alcona and Stroud, and west through Angus and Thornton. North and east we cover Midhurst and the rest of Springwater, along with Shanty Bay and the lakeside roads of Oro-Medonte.
Cottage kitchen cabinet painting on Lake Simcoe and up the road toward Muskoka fills part of most weeks from spring through fall. Send the address and we will confirm a date for the visit.
Phone +1 (705) 230-7220 and a visit gets booked anywhere in Barrie or the surrounding towns. Doors, primer, topcoat, coats and price all land on one written page.
Most kitchens involve two or three days of work inside the house and roughly two weeks overall. In the middle, the doors spend a week to ten days at the shop, and the kitchen serves as open shelving until they return.
Yes, provided the grain is filled ahead of priming. Grain filler goes on in two or three rounds and gets sanded level, which takes the oak pores down to a smooth surface. Shellac primer then blocks the tannins so the white stays white. Leaving the grain visible is also possible and costs less.
By a wide margin. Ontario market figures put whole-kitchen cabinet painting most often at $2,500 to $5,500, while new cabinets cost $15,000 to $40,000 and up. Your own price comes from the written quote.
Waterborne alkyd enamel, or else two-part 2K polyurethane, sprayed thin over whichever primer suits the material. Wall paint never goes on cabinets, because it stays soft, marks easily and peels at the handles.
Lightly on the day the doors are rehung, and normally after about a week. Hardening continues for roughly a month, so through that period the doors get wiped with a soft cloth and nothing gets hung from or leaned on them.
Tell us about the kitchen in whatever detail you have and a call follows to arrange the visit. The form goes through as soon as it has your name and a phone number on it. When a call is simpler, dial +1 (705) 230-7220.
