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.
Barrie is the gateway to the cottages on Lake Simcoe, along Innisfil's shoreline at Big Bay Point and Sandy Cove, up through Shanty Bay and Hawkestone in Oro-Medonte, and north on Highway 11 and Highway 400 toward Muskoka. Most of those kitchens are pine or dated oak, most are small, and most sit unheated from November to April.
Pine knots hold resin, and resin comes through water-based primer and latex paint as yellow and brown rings within one season. More coats do not fix it. Cottage kitchen cabinet painting therefore opens with shellac primer over all the doors, all the drawer fronts and all the boxes, plus a second coat dabbed over each knot, before topcoat goes anywhere near the wood. That same primer handles tannin in the oak kitchens that replaced pine in 1990s cottages around Alcona and Stroud.
Old cottage cabinets are also often greasy from decades of frying and wood smoke, so the degreasing is slower and more thorough than in a house in town. Skipping it is the reason cottage cabinet painting done in a weekend peels by the next summer.
A cottage at minus twenty in January and seventy percent humidity in July puts its doors through a cycle no house in Barrie sees. Solid pine panels shrink and swell, and a brittle finish cracks where panel meets frame. Cottage kitchen cabinet painting relies on a coating that keeps some flex, either waterborne alkyd enamel or 2K polyurethane, sprayed thin so it moves with the wood rather than cracking over it. A heavy brushed coat of hard paint is the worst possible choice for a cottage.
The finish needs a warm building to cure, so cottage kitchen cabinet painting gets scheduled from May through October, when the place is open, the doors can leave and return inside two weeks, and the enamel cures properly. Boxes get sprayed in place during that window while the doors are at the shop.
If the summer is too short or too full, the alternative is to pull the doors at closing in October, hold them at the shop through winter, and hang them at opening in May, with the boxes done in one spring visit. Seasonal roads, boat access and gate codes are routine parts of the schedule, and why doors do better in the booth anyway is explained under cabinet spray painting.
Most cottage kitchens hold ten to eighteen doors and drawers, which puts them at the low end of Ontario cabinet painting pricing, roughly $1,500 to $3,500, with shellac primer and extra degreasing adding to the base. One day on site for the boxes is typical. Your price is the written quote, and it allows for the drive. Cottages wanting a fresh look while keeping bare pine can take the cabinet refinishing route with a clear coat.
The best time to book is late winter, so the visit can happen at opening and the work can fit into the summer. Send the form with the lake and the nearest town, or call +1 (705) 230-7220. The Barrie Cabinet Painting home page covers the year-round houses in town and the rest of the service area from Innisfil to Oro-Medonte.
Pine, cold winters and short seasons make cottage kitchen cabinet painting its own trade, and a shellac primer with a flexible sprayed topcoat is what makes it last.
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
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 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.
