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.
Applewood has more tower living than most people expect. City of Mississauga district figures show that buildings of five floors or more hold close to half of all homes in the Applewood district. Many sit near Dixie Road and Bloor Street, along Burnhamthorpe Road and around Rathwood, and most of their kitchens are melamine, laminate or factory white shaker.
Each building has its own rules. Most want the freight elevator booked ahead, padding on the elevator walls, a copy of our insurance for the property manager and a set place to load and unload.
Work hours are often limited to weekdays during the day. We plan the job so the noisy and smelly parts happen off site, and the time inside the unit stays short. We handle the paperwork with the property manager so you do not have to.
On the first morning we number the doors and drawer fronts and carry them out to the booth. That removes most of the dust, noise and odour from the building.
Inside the unit, the boxes are sprayed behind sealed plastic while an extraction fan pulls air out. A galley usually needs just one day for this. Cooking carries on as usual, with dishes resting on open shelving until the fronts come back.
In a tower, odour travels through shared air, and complaints can stop a job. Spraying the doors in the booth keeps the strongest smells out of the building altogether.
In the suite itself, the boxes get a mild waterborne coating while fans move fresh air and tape seals the entry door. Most neighbours never know cabinet painting is happening. Condo kitchens are usually melamine, so the bonding primer step in melamine and thermofoil work applies.
Ten to fifteen pieces in a galley usually add up to somewhere from $1,500 up to $2,800, our smallest whole-kitchen price band. The number of pieces and the size of the colour change set the price.
Most condo kitchens are sound and simply look tired. Warm white, soft greige or a darker colour on the lowers makes a small galley feel current.
Landlords with suites near Dixie Road and Bloor Street regularly call us to update a kitchen during a vacancy. A dated melamine galley can lower the rent a unit can command, while new cabinets rarely pay for themselves.
Condo cabinet painting fits into a short vacancy. We book the building, take the doors on the first day, spray the boxes in the unit and bring the doors back within about a week. The unit is ready to show again right away, and the cabinet painting price stays at the low end of our range.
Rathwood and Applewood Hills have many townhouse complexes run by a condo board. Some limit work hours, parking for trades or where equipment can sit. We ask about those rules at the visit and plan the cabinet painting to fit.
Send us the building address, the floor and roughly how many doors you have, and we will deal with management. The visit and the written condo cabinet painting quote cost nothing. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, share your unit details or look through our services.
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
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.
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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.
See Bathroom Vanities
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 Hinges
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.
