Cabinet Colour Consultation For Cabinet Painting In Guelph, Ontario

One Of Your Own Doors Sprayed In The Actual Product Beats Any Paint Chip

A paint chip is a card two inches across. A sample door is an actual door from the kitchen, given the same primer, enamel and sheen the job will get, and hung back for a few days so the colour can be seen at breakfast and at night. That is the only way to judge a cabinet colour, and it costs a few days of time before the cabinet painting starts.

Two or three samples are normal in a cabinet painting job when the choice is between close whites or between a navy and a green for the island. The two-tone page covers testing two colours together.

Most Kitchens End Up In A Warm White, A Greige, A Sage, A Navy Or A Charcoal

Stark white has given way to warm whites with a little cream or grey in them, which suit the wood floors and stone counters common in Guelph houses. Greige works in open-concept rooms where the kitchen has to sit with the living room paint. Sage and soft green suit century homes and cottages. Navy and charcoal go on islands and lowers. Every one of those can be matched to a major paint deck, and cabinet painting in any of them is priced the same except for the deep colours, which take a third coat.

A cabinet painting colour also has to survive the sun. Whites warm slightly over the years in a south-facing window, and a satin finish in 2K polyurethane keeps its colour better than a high-gloss one-part enamel.

Sheen Changes A Cabinet Painting Colour More Than People Expect

The same colour in satin and semi-gloss reads as two different colours. Satin hides small dents and hand-planed unevenness and is what most cabinet painting ends up in. Semi-gloss reflects more light and shows more, and it suits a modern slab door in a small kitchen that needs brightness. Matte is possible in a 2K polyurethane and reads as very current, but it shows fingerprints on dark colours. The sample door is sprayed in the sheen under discussion, so the decision is made on the real thing.

Matching An Existing Cabinet Painting Colour Is Done From A Door, Not A Name

A kitchen where one new door has to match twenty old ones, or an island that has to match trim painted five years ago, is matched from a physical sample, because paint names change between decks and a colour fades in place. A door or a drawer front goes to the paint supplier and is read by a spectrophotometer, then the match is sprayed on a sample and checked beside the original. The door replacement page covers the single-door case where this matters most.