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.
Knotty Pine Bleeds Through Every Primer Except Shellac
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.
Wood Moves In An Unheated Building, So The Finish Has To Flex
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.
Cabinet Painting Is Timed Between May And October, Or The Doors Winter In The Shop
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.
Small Cottage Kitchens Are Quick Cabinet Painting Jobs
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.
Book Cottage Kitchen Cabinet Painting For This Season Or Next
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.
Cottage Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
When can cottage cabinets be painted?
The finish needs a warm building to cure, so the work runs from May through October. Doors leave and return inside two weeks while the boxes are sprayed in place. If the summer is full, the doors can be pulled in October, held at the shop over winter and hung back in May.
Why does knotty pine need shellac primer?
Pine knots hold resin, and resin bleeds through water-based primer and paint as yellow and brown rings within one season. More coats do not stop it. Shellac primer seals the knots and the wood so the topcoat stays clean. It also blocks tannin in the oak kitchens of 1990s cottages.
How much does cottage kitchen cabinet painting cost?
Most cottage kitchens hold ten to eighteen doors and drawers, which sits at the low end of Ontario pricing, roughly $1,500 to $3,500. Shellac primer, extra degreasing and the drive add to the base. The written quote sets the real price, and it is fixed once signed.