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.
Light in Applewood houses varies a lot. A closed kitchen at the back of a 1950s bungalow may get only north light from one window, a Rathwood kitchen may open onto a bright backyard, and pot lights change everything after dark.
Warm whites and soft creams are the most common choice in original bungalows, since they brighten small, closed kitchens. Sage green and muted blue-greens are popular in Applewood Heights side-splits, often on the lower cabinets only.
In Rathwood and in condos, greige and pale grey remain common, with navy or charcoal on islands. These trends are only a starting point. The right cabinet painting colour is the one that looks best on your sample door in your own light, and we are happy to spray two or three samples before you decide.
One of your doors goes to the booth for the complete cabinet painting treatment: primer, colour and the sheen you are thinking about. Back it comes, propped beside your counter, tile and flooring.
Check it in morning light, at midday and at night under the pot lights. Store lighting fools people, and two sample doors side by side settle a choice between two shades faster than anything.
One shade can read three different ways across satin, semi-gloss and gloss. Satin is the most forgiving choice for cabinet painting. It hides small dents and old repairs, which suits original bungalow doors with sixty years of history.
Semi-gloss bounces more light and cleans up easily, a good fit for homes with small kids. Gloss exposes every flaw, so we rarely recommend it for older doors. Whites also warm slightly in strong sun over time, and satin hides that change better.
If the counter is staying, it guides the colour. Speckled granite and laminate from the 1990s tend to clash with cool greys and look better beside cream, warm greige or sage. Plain white quartz works with almost any colour.
A patterned or strongly coloured backsplash narrows the choices further. If a new counter is on the way, settle that first and choose the cabinet colour after it. A two-colour plan can also help bridge a difficult counter, as shown under two-tone and island work.
Small, closed kitchens need a lighter touch. Very dark cabinets on every wall can make a bungalow kitchen feel cramped. Warm white or a gentle greige keeps things light, and saving a richer tone for the lowers or one pantry door adds character without making the room dim.
Strong colours add some cost. Navy, forest green and charcoal typically take one more coat to look even, and deeply tinted enamel is priced higher than white.
Going from dark stained wood to a pale colour adds work too, because primer has to hide the old tone. Oak and cherry need shellac for that step, as oak cabinet painting describes. We price it up front so your chosen colour carries no surprises.
Living with a sample door for a week is better than living with the wrong colour for years. You pay nothing for the visit, the colour advice or the written cabinet painting quote. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, list the colours on your shortlist or return to the main page.
Bathroom vanities, pantry cupboards, laundry cabinets and basement bars in side-splits get the kitchen's primer and enamel.
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.
See Kitchen Cabinets
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.
See Bungalows
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.
See Oak Cabinets
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.
See Refinishing
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.
See Spray Painting
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.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
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.
See Refacing and New Doors
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.
See Two-Tone and Islands
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.
See Bathroom Vanities
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.
See Condo Kitchens
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.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
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.
See Hardware and HingesWe come out, count every opening, name the material and put the job in writing, free of charge.
Any 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.
