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.
Most kitchens in Barrie built before 2010 carry a single knob or a short arched pull on each door, and the hinges are the original ones. Owners who book cabinet painting almost always want the long bar pulls that go with a shaker door, and the holes never line up. This page is about doing that properly.
A badly filled hole shows from across the room as a dimple or a ring in the paint. During cabinet painting every old hole gets a hardening two-part filler, gets sanded flush, spot-primed and sanded again before the door is sprayed. On thermofoil and melamine the filler also gets sealed under bonding primer, or it telegraphs through. Doors get sprayed bare, which is why fresh holes wait until the finish has cured.
New pulls are laid out with a jig so every handle sits in the same spot on every door, and the drilling happens on the day the doors are hung. Bar pulls on drawers are centred, pulls on doors sit near the bottom of an upper and the top of a lower, and a backing block stops the drill from chipping the painted face on the way out. Getting one of a hundred holes wrong is the sort of mistake that shows forever, so the layout is checked with a dry fit before anything is drilled.
Ontario market pricing for hardware installation runs from roughly $75 for a small kitchen to well over $1,000 for a large kitchen with new holes on every door, before the cost of the pulls. The written quote lists the hardware line separately from the cabinet painting line.
With the doors already down for cabinet painting, hinges are the easiest thing in the kitchen to change. Most 1990s and 2000s kitchens carry a standard European cup hinge, and a soft-close version drops into the same cup and mounting plate. Slamming stops, the adjustment is fresh, and gaps that crept in over twenty years close up when the doors go back. Face-frame kitchens from the 1970s with surface hinges are a different case, quoted once seen.
Brushed brass is the current favourite and looks right on warm white, sage and navy. Matte black pairs with charcoal, greige and cool white, and reads modern on a slab door. Brushed nickel goes with any cabinet painting colour and is what most realtors want ahead of a listing. Samples of all three come to the visit and get set on the painted sample door, because a pull on a real door looks nothing like a pull on a screen. The colour side of that decision is on the cabinet colour consultation page.
Hardware and hinges usually get added to a kitchen quote, though a hardware swap on a kitchen already painted is a job we take by itself. Send the form or phone +1 (705) 230-7220 with a picture of the current doors and pulls. The painting side of the work across Barrie, Innisfil and Springwater is on the Barrie Cabinet Painting home page.
Filled holes, a template for the new ones and soft-close hinges fitted while the doors are off are the finishing steps that make cabinet painting look like a new kitchen.
Prep, primer and a sprayed coating of the very same kind go onto whatever other cabinets a house holds.
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
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 ConsultationWe visit, count the doors, work out the material and write the quote up, at no charge and with no obligation.
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.
