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.
Single-door swaps are the most common version. A sink base door swollen by a slow leak, a split panel or a thermofoil front peeling next to the stove are all problems with one door, not with the kitchen.
We start with the boxes. Square, dry and firmly fixed boxes are worth keeping, and in most Applewood kitchens they are. The question then becomes whether the doors can take cabinet painting or need replacing.
Doors fail in a few clear ways: peeling thermofoil, veneer sanded through, particleboard swollen by water, and cracks that run through a panel. One or two of those can be replaced. Once those faults show up on most doors, replacing every front becomes the smarter spend.
Style is the other reason people reface. A raised-panel or cathedral door from the 1990s will still look like one after cabinet painting. If you want a shaker or slab look, new doors are the way to get it.
Original doors in the early Applewood Acres bungalows can carry many coats of paint, and the bottom layer may contain lead. If those layers are sound, we seal them under new primer. If they are cracking and lifting, safe stripping takes a lot of time, and new doors can cost less. We test first and give you both prices so the choice is clear. The bungalow cabinet page covers the testing.
Across Mississauga, cabinet painting a full kitchen generally lands at $2,500 to $5,500. New doors and drawer fronts on your current boxes tend to run from $3,000 up to $10,000, depending on style, material and piece count.
New cabinets after a tear-out start near $15,000 and can top $40,000 once counters and plumbing are counted. Expect one new door to cost somewhere in the low hundreds. All of these are ranges, and the written quote gives your actual figure.
A new door only blends in when it is sprayed with every other door. We prime and coat the whole kitchen in the same session, so every piece shares the same colour, sheen and film build.
Profile matters as much as paint. We match the edge shape and panel style as closely as we can, and we tell you before ordering if a perfect match is not possible. Hinge placement also has to line up, and older doors often need new holes for concealed hinges, which hinges and hardware explains.
Most of our refacing questions end in a mixed plan. The kitchen gets cabinet painting, and the two or three doors that cannot be saved are replaced with new ones in a matching style. The new doors arrive primed, join the others in the booth and come back looking identical.
This approach costs far less than refacing the whole kitchen. It also keeps the original boxes and most of the original doors, which is often the best value in older Applewood homes. We price the new doors and the cabinet painting together on one quote so the full cost is clear.
Many kitchens in Applewood Acres and Applewood Heights still have plywood or solid wood boxes from the 1950s and 1960s. They have solid backs, nailed face frames and joints that have held for sixty years. Swapping them for particleboard boxes is rarely an upgrade.
Keeping those boxes and spending the budget on cabinet painting or new fronts gives the most kitchen for the money.
Before you order new doors, have someone check the boxes and count how many doors actually need replacing. We price cabinet painting and refacing side by side on one written quote. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, set up the visit or read about the rest of our work.
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.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
