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.
Barrie kitchens run from 1970s plywood boxes in Allandale and Cundles, through the golden oak of Letitia Heights and Painswick North, to thermofoil in the newer south end. Each material gets its own primer, and the oak cabinet painting and thermofoil and melamine pages cover the two we see most.
Every Kitchen Cabinet Painting Job Follows The Same Steps
Degrease, tag, sand, prime, fill, spray, sand, spray, cure: that is the cabinet painting order, and no step gets dropped to save a day. Down come the doors and drawer fronts first, tagged by position so each hinge returns to its own hole. Grease and wax come off using a cleaner that is strong enough to cut them, since paint laid over grease lets go within months.
Next comes sanding to a dull, even surface, then primer. Shellac goes on oak and cherry to hold back tannin. A bonding primer goes on melamine, thermofoil and laminate. Maple, MDF and previously painted doors take a standard cabinet primer. After a scuff sand, two or three thin sprayed topcoats follow, sanded between. Whether a finish lasts or chips comes down to whether every cabinet painting step happened.
A Kitchen Cabinet Painting Quote Names Every Part Of The Job
The written quote counts doors and drawer fronts, boxes and end panels, and records the material, primer, topcoat, sheen, coat count, any grain fill and the price. It also says whether an island, crown moulding or pantry is included. A quote showing one lone total for the kitchen compares with nothing, and it leaves room for surprises.
The visit that produces the cabinet painting quote is free. We count, we open a few doors to check the hinge side, we look under the sink for swelling, and we talk about colour.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Takes About Two Weeks, With Two Or Three Days In The House
Most kitchen cabinet painting jobs involve two or three days inside the house and about two weeks overall. Removal, degreasing, masking and sanding fill day one. Boxes get primed and sprayed inside the enclosure across the following day or two. The doors then spend a week to ten days at the shop being primed, filled, sprayed and left to harden.
Through that stretch the kitchen runs as open shelving, with the sink, stove and fridge all in service. Once the doors return they get hung, adjusted and fitted with hardware in one day. Our cabinet spray painting page explains why doors go to a booth instead of being brushed in place.
A Cabinet Painting Finish Is Dry In Hours But Not Fully Cured For Weeks
A waterborne alkyd enamel dries to the touch within hours, takes normal use after about a week and reaches full hardness in roughly a month. A 2K polyurethane cures far faster and nears full hardness within days. Either way, those first weeks want a soft cloth and nothing abrasive. Chips at the cutlery drawer and around handles almost always come from hard use before curing finished, which is why our care sheet lays out the timeline.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Prices In Barrie Follow Ontario Market Ranges
Whole-kitchen cabinet painting across Ontario most often costs $2,500 to $5,500. A small kitchen starts near $1,500, while a large or two-tone kitchen runs $6,000 to $9,000 and beyond. A door lands somewhere around $130 to $250, and grain fill on oak, bonding primer on thermofoil or a deep colour change each push the count up. Market figures, all of them. Your actual price is the written quote that follows the free visit, and it stays fixed once signed.
Pantry And Laundry Cabinet Painting Is Often Added To A Kitchen Job
A walk-in pantry and a laundry run usually get painted on the same days as the kitchen boxes, since the sprayer and plastic are already in the house. Their doors ride to the booth alongside the kitchen's and return with them. Added to a kitchen, pantry and laundry cabinet painting is priced by door count toward the bottom of the $130 to $250 per-door band. Alone, a laundry or mudroom run is usually one day plus a return visit for the doors.
Laundry cabinets often carry detergent residue and dryer film that ordinary cleaning misses, so degreasing here is thorough. Melamine laundry cabinets, which are common, take the same bonding primer covered on the thermofoil and melamine page.
Old Handle Holes Show Through Cabinet Painting Unless They Are Filled First
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.
Book A Kitchen Cabinet Painting Visit In Barrie
The free visit takes about half an hour, and a couple of days later the written quote arrives. Send the form or phone +1 (705) 230-7220 with a rough door count and your neighbourhood, whether that is Holly, Ardagh, Painswick or out in Innisfil. Every other service we offer, from islands to vanities, is described on the Barrie Cabinet Painting home page.
A written cabinet painting quote listing doors, drawers, primer, topcoat and coats is the only fair basis for a price, and the visit behind it costs nothing.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
How long does a kitchen cabinet painting job take?
Most kitchens need two or three days of work inside the house and about two weeks overall. The doors spend a week to ten days at the shop while the boxes are sprayed on site. The kitchen stays usable, with open boxes serving as shelves and the sink, stove and fridge working throughout.
What does the written quote include?
It counts doors, drawer fronts, boxes and end panels, then records the material, primer, topcoat, sheen, coat count and any grain fill. It also says whether an island, crown moulding or pantry is included. Each part has its own price, so nothing is added later and two quotes compare fairly.
Can hardware and hinges be changed during the job?
Yes. The doors are already off, so soft-close hinges drop into the same cup and plate on most 1990s and 2000s kitchens. Old handle holes are filled and sanded flush, and new pulls are drilled from a template once the finish has cured. Hardware is quoted on its own line.