Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Barrie, Ontario

What Are The Benefits Of Kitchen Cabinet Painting In Barrie?

Kitchen cabinet 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.

Thermofoil And Melamine Cabinet Painting Needs A Bonding Primer, Not Wall Paint

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.

Brushed Cabinet Painting Shows Every Stroke, So The Doors Are Sprayed

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.

Some Wood Deserves Refinishing Instead Of Cabinet Painting

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.

Cottage Kitchen Cabinet Painting Between Barrie And Muskoka Has Its Own Rules

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.

Vanities Are Small Cabinet Painting Jobs That Usually Ride Along With A Kitchen

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.

Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting Happens With The Unit Still In Use

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.