East Credit Cabinet Painting paints, refinishes and upgrades the cabinetry already in place, including kitchens, islands, vanities, pantries, laundry rooms and built-ins, in the detached homes, semis and townhouses of East Credit, Heartland, Credit Meadows and Credit Pointe. Every job we do is fully insured.
Good cabinet painting has more in common with furniture finishing than with rolling a wall. A kitchen door gets yanked open and pushed shut thousands of times a year, so it has to be scrubbed of grease, primed with a product made for its wood or surface, built up in thin sprayed layers and left to harden. Every step we take follows from that.
A bare total gives you nothing to measure the finished job by. Our quotes list box, drawer and door counts, the material they are built from, the matching primer, the topcoat, the sheen, how many coats, and any exclusions spelled out.
Cabinet interiors, crown trim, glass-front doors, patched knob holes, freshly bored pull holes, grain filling, squared-off arches and new handles are each priced separately. Should the scope change midway, you get a written line to approve before any added work starts. Each service also has a page of its own on this site, so the terms on your quote will already be familiar.
We divide every cabinet painting job into two settings, since fronts and carcasses each need their own conditions. Fronts are tagged, their hinges bagged, and they head to our filtered spray booth, where filtered air and a steady temperature produce the smooth, even coat you see at the end.
Carcasses and face frames stay screwed to the wall, so we spray them where they are, inside a plastic tent with fans venting outdoors and the neighbouring rooms masked. That split keeps the stove and sink in use for most of the job, which counts in a busy East Credit home.
Some cabinets are not good candidates for paint, and we prefer to tell you plainly over taking the booking. Lifting vinyl beside the dishwasher, particleboard swollen from a leak and carcasses pulling off the wall all need a fix that no coating can supply.
Handsome cherry and figured maple often look best left as wood, and we tell you when that is the case. Orange-toned builder oak nearly always improves with paint. Arched cathedral uppers can keep their curve, be squared off or be replaced, and we walk through each choice. The recommendation follows the cabinets, not the invoice.
Most East Credit homes were built between the late 1980s and the 2000s, with the largest share finished in the 1990s. The kitchens in those houses fall into three groups, and each needs a different approach.
The first group is late-1980s and 1990s red oak and honey maple, often topped with arched cathedral uppers, and those jobs begin with shellac primer plus decisions about the oak grain and the arches. The second group is cherry and solid maple in some of the bigger homes near the river, where refinishing can beat paint. The third group is white thermofoil and melamine in the later Heartland builds and the condo townhouses, where bonding primer and a careful check of the doors beside the heat sources decide the job.
Many households here are large, which affects cabinet painting choices, and plenty include grandparents, parents and children together. That means kitchens get heavy daily use, and we recommend the harder coatings more often than not.
Cabinet painting, cabinet refinishing and the door, hardware and colour work that goes with them make up the whole business. That focus is why every quote reads the same way and every job follows the same steps.
Each job begins with one of us in your kitchen counting doors, since nobody can price cabinet painting accurately by phone. You pay nothing for the visit or the written quote, and you are not committed to anything. Call +1 (365) 217-9589, share your kitchen details, or visit our East Credit cabinet painting home page.
Listed below is everything the business does, with a page on each.
Kitchen cabinet painting gives a tired 1990s kitchen a fresh colour and a tough sprayed coat, and the boxes, countertop and sink never leave the wall. Each door is cleaned, scuffed, primed to suit its wood and sprayed before it is rehung.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Arched cathedral doors can be painted as they are, filled to a square top, or swapped for flat shaker doors while the rest of the kitchen is painted. Cabinet painting on these doors starts with one decision about the curve, and we price every option at the visit.
See Cathedral Doors
Oak cabinet painting needs a stain-blocking primer because oak tannin bleeds brown through water-based products. The open grain also telegraphs through paint unless it is filled level before the topcoats go on.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet refinishing removes the old clear coat by sanding or stripping, refreshes the stain tone and locks the colour in under a fresh sprayed clear topcoat. We recommend it instead of paint whenever the grain is the best feature in the room.
See Refinishing
A spray gun breaks the coating into tiny droplets that flow together and level before they set, leaving no brush lines or roller stipple. Cabinet painting applied this way looks much like a finish from a cabinet factory.
See Spray Painting
Shiny factory doors keep paint only when a purpose-made bonding primer goes on first and the surface itself is still firmly attached. Cabinet painting does well on solid melamine and firmly bonded thermofoil, but a vinyl skin that is already lifting is past saving with a coating.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Refacing hangs brand-new doors and drawer fronts on the carcasses already in your kitchen, while door replacement swaps only the few doors that are damaged or out of style. Both are often paired with cabinet painting so the new and old parts finish in one matching colour.
See Refacing and New Doors
Light uppers over darker lowers, or a painted perimeter with a contrasting island, are the two-tone layouts people ask for most. A lone island is a full cabinet painting job in its own right and one of the quickest ways to change a room.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Most vanities take one or two days, and no job we do is easier to live around. The doors are sprayed at the shop, the base is sprayed on site, and after cabinet painting the bathroom is back in service fast.
See Bathroom Vanities
Condo and townhouse kitchens are small, usually ten to twenty doors, and the job moves quickly once the building rules are sorted out. Cabinet painting in a shared complex works best when parking, work hours and noise are planned first.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry cupboards, laundry uppers, mudroom lockers, family room wall units and bookcases receive the primer and sprayed enamel the kitchen does. Since most are fastened in place, their cabinet painting happens on site inside a plastic tent.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Leftover knob holes are plugged and filled so the new colour hides them completely, and new holes for pulls are bored off a jig so each handle sits level. Tired hinges get swapped during cabinet painting, since the doors are down anyway.
See Hardware and Hinges
Paint chips under store lights are a poor guide, so we spray one of your actual doors in your favourite candidate shade and leave it standing in the room. The shades we are asked for most in cabinet painting right now are warm white, cream, greige, sage and deep green.
See Colour ConsultationShare any cabinet details you have handy, and we will call to book a time. The form goes through with just a name and a number. To talk it over by phone, call +1 (365) 217-9589.
