Applewood Cabinet Painting sprays, refinishes and updates the cabinets already installed in homes across Applewood Acres, Applewood Heights, Applewood Hills and Rathwood. Every job is carried out under full insurance. Kitchens, islands, vanities, pantries, laundry rooms and built-ins are all part of it, whether the house is a Shipp bungalow, a Rathwood back-split, a side-split, a townhouse or a condo unit.
Cabinet painting is a different trade from wall painting. Cabinet doors get opened, closed, splashed and wiped every day, and they have to swing freely for decades. That takes thorough degreasing, a primer that suits the material, thin sprayed enamel and patience while it cures. Our quotes follow those steps.
A single total gives you nothing to measure the finished work against. So our quote breaks out the door, drawer and box counts, the material, the planned primer and enamel, the sheen, the coats and any exclusions.
Interiors, crown trim, glazed doors, hole filling, new hole boring and hardware supply are all priced one by one. If the scope changes partway, the new line is written before the work. Each of those items is described in plain language across our full list of cabinet painting services.
Applewood is one of the older suburbs in Mississauga, and that shapes our process. The first Applewood Acres homes were sold in 1952, and houses built before 1960 were often painted with lead-based paint at first. When a kitchen still has its original painted cabinets, we test the old layers before any sanding.
If the test comes back clean, the job goes ahead as normal. If lead is present, we skip dry sanding and heat stripping, contain the dust, clean with a HEPA vacuum and seal sound old paint under the new finish. Doors with thick, failing layers may be replaced instead. Bungalow kitchen cabinet painting explains the full approach.
We run each cabinet painting job at two sites. We tag each door and drawer front, bag its hinges and take the whole set to our filtered booth, since stable air and warmth are what give that silky finish.
Face frames and boxes are fixed in place, so they are sprayed in your kitchen inside sealed plastic, with an extraction fan running and the next rooms masked off. That arrangement is why families can keep cooking during the job. Spray cabinet painting has the details.
Painting is sometimes the wrong call, and we say so even when it costs us the work. Lifting thermofoil, particleboard bloated by water and boxes coming loose from the wall are problems no coating can fix.
Walnut, cherry and teak often deserve a new clear finish instead of colour, and cabinet refinishing explains when. Builder oak with an orange cast almost always looks better painted, as oak cabinet painting shows. We base our advice on the cabinets, not on the size of the bill.
Most of our cabinet painting work here falls into three groups. Original 1950s and early 1960s kitchens in Applewood Acres and Applewood Heights have site-built wood cabinets with layers of old paint, so testing and prep lead the job.
Kitchens updated in the 1980s and 1990s, plus many Rathwood homes built in those years, have oak, so shellac primer and a grain-fill choice lead those jobs. Condos, townhouses and basement suites bring melamine and thermofoil, where bonding primer and a close check of the doors near heat come first.
Pricing cabinet painting properly means counting doors in person, so we always start with a visit. It is free, the written quote is free, and you are not committed to anything. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, send us your kitchen details or return to the cabinet painting home page.
These services make up everything we do.
We unhang every door and drawer front, strip off the grease, scuff and prime it to suit its material, spray on a tough enamel and put it back up. Kitchen cabinet painting recolours the whole room while counters, sink and flooring stay exactly as they are.
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Original bungalow kitchens are small, closed rooms with solid wood or plywood cabinets that have often been painted several times already. Cabinet painting in these houses starts with the old layers, because what is under the top coat decides how the job is done.
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Oak lets brown tannin seep up through water-based primer, and its open grain telegraphs through colour unless it gets filled. So the first coat in oak cabinet painting is always a shellac-based primer that seals the tannin in.
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With refinishing, the worn topcoat comes off by stripping or sanding, new stain balances the colour, and a sprayed clear layer protects the wood. It is our pick over paint when the timber is the most attractive feature of the kitchen.
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Spray equipment breaks the enamel into a fine mist that settles into one even film, with no brush lines or roller texture. That is the difference between cabinet painting that looks factory-made and a finish that looks homemade.
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Shiny factory doors call for a bonding primer built to stick to slick faces, since an ordinary one just lets go. Sound melamine and laminate accept cabinet painting well, while thermofoil that has started lifting needs stripping or replacing first.
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With refacing, fresh doors and drawer fronts go onto the boxes you already have, and the frames are sprayed to match them. We can also swap just one or two damaged doors and finish them with everything else during cabinet painting, so the fix blends in.
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Two-tone cabinet painting puts one colour on the uppers and a deeper one on the lowers or the island. Plenty of people paint only the island, which is usually the simplest way to give the room a fresh centrepiece.
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Painting a bathroom vanity usually takes one or two days, and the room is back in use quickly. We treat vanity cabinet painting as a full job, with primer and enamel chosen for daily steam and splashing.
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A condo galley usually has ten to fifteen doors and turns around quickly. Condo cabinet work depends on planning the elevator booking, the parking and the odour control with the building before any work starts.
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Pantry cupboards, laundry cabinets, closet doors, bookcases and rec room bars go through the same steps as a kitchen. Since nearly all of them are fastened to walls, they are coated where they stand inside a plastic enclosure.
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We plug old knob holes until they disappear under the new colour and bore new ones through a jig so pulls line up exactly. While doors are off for cabinet painting, worn hinges are replaced with soft-close hinges.
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Our most requested shades are white, cream, greige, sage, navy and charcoal, but a tiny paper swatch rarely predicts how any of them will look at home. Our cabinet painting colour process sprays one of your real doors and leaves it with you for a few days.
See Colour ConsultationAny detail helps, from door style to the year the house went up. We will call to pick a time, and only a name and phone number are required. If you would rather talk, call +1 (289) 206-9979.
