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.
New hardware is the cheapest change in a kitchen that people notice right away. Hardware gets separate cabinet painting quote lines showing how many pieces are involved and what each task costs.
Original doors in Applewood Acres and Applewood Heights bungalows often have a single small knob, a finger groove, or no hole at all. Modern bar pulls need two holes set a fixed distance apart, so we drill new holes into doors that were never made for them.
Old holes get wooden plugs, filler and sanding before priming. New holes are bored after primer but ahead of the final coats, so a chipped edge can be filled and coated over. All holes come off one jig, because a handle sitting a hair lower than its neighbours catches the eye.
Doors that swing open by themselves or bang shut have tired hinges. Adjustment only buys a little time, and swapping the hinge during cabinet painting costs little since the door is already off.
Kitchens updated after about 1990 usually have European cup hinges. Those swap easily for soft-close versions, since the round hole is already cut. Many oak kitchens in Applewood Heights and Rathwood fall into this group.
Older doors from the 1950s often have surface-mounted or offset hinges that are no longer made. We can clean and reuse them, find a close match, or drill the doors for concealed hinges. Each option has a different price, and new doors face the same choice, as new doors and refacing explains.
Brass and warm gold are the most popular finishes on painted kitchens right now. Matte black suits a modern look, and brushed nickel still works on grey and white. The best way to decide is to hold the handle against your sprayed sample door.
Handle size changes the style. Long bars across wide drawers look modern, while knobs and cup pulls look more traditional and suit an older bungalow kitchen. Keep one finish within each area of the kitchen if you mix metals. Colour pairing is covered under cabinet colour consultation.
Handles are mounted last, once the doors hang true and the hinges have been set. Bolting a handle through fresh paint can press a mark into the finish, so waiting until the paint has firmed up protects it.
This is also when we set the gaps. Each hinge is adjusted until the space between doors is even along the whole run, which is what makes a painted kitchen look finished.
Changing handles on their own is simple, but changing them from knobs to bar pulls leaves holes that show. Doing the swap during cabinet painting solves that, because the old holes are filled and covered by the new finish.
The same goes for hinges. Swapping hinges during cabinet painting uses the time when the doors are already off and on the rack, so the added labour is small. We suggest planning every hardware change before the job starts, so it can be priced with the cabinet painting and done in one pass.
Pick your handles and hinges ahead of time, or have us bring samples along. Each hardware item is priced separately on the cabinet painting quote. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, share your hardware ideas or view the rest of the site.
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.
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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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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 ConsultationWe 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.
