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.
Each job has two halves. Fronts travel to our filtered spray booth, where dust is kept out and the temperature holds steady. Boxes and face frames stay mounted and are sprayed on site inside a plastic tent, matching the fronts coat for coat.
Brush ridges never level out completely, and they show most on rails and inside raised panels. Under pot lights or the window light over a sink, those ridges show from across the room.
With sprayed cabinet painting, each coat goes on thin and even, with a light scuff before the next. Thin and uniform also means tough, while a heavy brushed layer stays soft longer and chips at the edges first.
Look at the busiest spots for proof. At the handles and along the cutlery drawer's top edge, a cured sprayed coat holds up for years, whereas brushed paint in the same spots wears through far sooner.
Profiled doors are where brushing does the most harm. The bevel around a raised panel and the inside corners of an arched top rail collect extra paint from a brush, which sags, pools and stays soft.
Spray reaches into the profile and lays down the same thickness on the bevel as on the flat. Since most East Credit kitchens have raised-panel lowers and many have arched uppers, this explains why every bit of our cabinet painting is sprayed. The cathedral door cabinet painting page covers those doors.
Fronts are what visitors look at, so fronts get the booth. No dust landing on a wet coat, steady temperature and doors lying flat while they dry all give a better finish than spraying doors in a kitchen.
Boxes stay on the wall, so we build a clean spray zone around them. On-site cabinet painting uses plastic taped from floor to ceiling, runners on the floors, exhaust fans pulling air outside and masking on the rooms beside the kitchen. Set up properly, the overspray stays in the tent and nobody has to move out.
Plenty of Heartland houses have an open main floor where kitchen, breakfast nook and family room run together. That means the plastic for in-house cabinet painting has to seal a wider area than it would in a closed kitchen.
We tape plastic from floor to ceiling around the kitchen, cover the family room furniture and vent the extraction out a window. Cabinet painting in an open floor plan takes more setup, and the quote shows that setup as its own line.
Waterborne alkyd enamel flows out smoothly, tints to nearly any shade and gives off little smell. Recoating takes several hours, light use can start after about seven days, and full hardness takes roughly four weeks.
Catalyzed two-component urethane is mixed with its hardener moments before spraying. It sets by chemical reaction, is fully hard within about a day and handles scrubbing better than any other coating we use for cabinet painting. For a busy family kitchen, it is often our pick.
Below either topcoat goes a primer suited to whatever the door is made of: shellac-based for oak, maple and cherry, bonding primer for melamine, laminate and well-attached thermofoil. Primers for slick doors are explained under thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting.
Waterborne cabinet painting coatings firm up as their water leaves, and humid air holds that water in. Muggy July and August weather in Mississauga lengthens the wait between coats.
Our booth keeps the doors on schedule regardless. The boxes are what has to wait, so during a sticky week the on-site day can stretch a bit. Pushing cabinet painting through heavy humidity leaves a soft film that scuffs easily, so we let each coat set properly.
On paper you will see the coating system, the primer, how many coats and which sheen, plus a sentence on why we chose each. You pay nothing for the visit or for the written cabinet painting quote. Call +1 (365) 217-9589, request a visit, or head back to our home page.
Ensuite vanities, laundry uppers, pantry towers and wall units are primed and topcoated just like the kitchen.
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
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 ConsultationWe visit, tally each door and drawer, identify the material and list the whole job on paper. Neither the visit nor the quote costs you anything.
Share 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.
