Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Doors and fronts are taken off for booth spraying, hard enamel laid over a primer chosen for the material, with the boxes handled on site. Kitchen cabinet painting then puts the lot back in a new colour.
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Cabinet Refinishing
Cabinet Refinishing Instead Of Cabinet Painting In Guelph, Ontario
Cabinet refinishing keeps the wood visible instead of painting over it. The tired finish comes away by stripping or sanding, the wood gets stained or left natural, and a sprayed clear coat lets the grain read through.
The walnut and birch kitchens in the 1950s and 1960s bungalows of Waverley, Onward Willow and June Avenue, and the cherry kitchens from the 2000s in Kortright East, are the ones that ask for refinishing most often in Guelph. Every refinishing job is fully insured and quoted in writing, the same as a cabinet painting job.
Cabinet Refinishing details
Refinishing Beats Cabinet Painting When The Wood Is Worth Seeing
Refinishing is the better choice when the doors are solid walnut, cherry, white oak or clear birch and the only thing wrong with them is a finish that has yellowed, worn through at the handles or gone cloudy from steam. Cabinet painting hides all of that, but it also hides the wood, and once painted, a door does not go back to natural without a full strip.
Painting wins where the doors mix species, carry patches or filler, or are faced in veneer that has worn through in places. It also wins when the aim is a light kitchen, because no stain makes dark walnut pale. The oak cabinet painting page covers the case where golden oak is the wood in question and the grain is the problem rather than the point.
Stripping, Sanding And Staining Happen Off Site, Like Cabinet Painting
Doors and drawer fronts get labelled, taken down and carried to the shop, where the old lacquer or varnish comes off chemically or under a sander, depending on its thickness and what lies beneath. The bare wood then gets sanded up through the grits until it is smooth and even, and dents or worn edges get attention while the wood is exposed.
Stain goes on next, wiped by hand so the colour is even across the whole door and matched to a sample board approved before the job starts. White oak is often left natural or given a light wash so it stays pale. Walnut usually needs nothing but a clear coat. Cherry darkens on its own within a year, and the sample board accounts for that.
The Clear Coat Is Sprayed Like Any Cabinet Painting Finish
The clear coat is a sprayed 2K polyurethane or a waterborne clear, applied in thin passes with a sanding between, exactly like the enamel in a cabinet painting job. Brushed varnish shows strokes and dust; a sprayed clear coat lies flat and cures hard. Sheen is a choice, and most people pick satin because it hides fingerprints and reads as natural wood.
Boxes and face frames get refinished in place inside a sealed room. Where the boxes are veneered particleboard and the doors are solid wood, the stain is adjusted so the two match, and we say so in the quote if a perfect match is not possible.
Refinishing Cost Sits Close To Cabinet Painting Cost
Refinishing takes more shop hours than cabinet painting because stripping is slow and staining is done by hand, so the price lands at or slightly above the painting range for the same kitchen. Most Ontario kitchens fall between $2,500 and $5,500 painted, and refinishing runs in the same territory or a little higher depending on how thick the old finish is. That is a market range; the written quote is the figure that counts.
Some kitchens do best with both: refinished walnut doors on the island and cabinet painting on the perimeter. The two-tone page covers that pairing.
Ask For A Cabinet Refinishing Quote In Guelph
If the wood in the kitchen is worth keeping, book a visit or phone +1 (226) 271-3466 and stain samples come with us. The Guelph Cabinet Painting home page explains cabinet painting for the kitchens where paint is the better answer.
What We Do
More Cabinet Painting Services
The same degreasing, primer and sprayed enamel go into every other job we take on.
Century Home Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Century home kitchen cabinet painting deals with site-built wood cabinets that carry decades of old paint, uneven doors, worn hinges and plaster dust, and paints them in a colour that suits the age of the house without erasing its character.
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Oak Cabinet Painting
Oak cabinet painting starts with shellac primer so the tannins stay put. Filler packs the open grain until the face is flat, and sprayed enamel covers both, leaving a 1980s golden oak kitchen looking newly built.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet Spray Painting
Cabinet spray painting lays enamel down in thin, even passes from a spray gun rather than a brush, in a booth for the doors and inside a sealed kitchen for the boxes, which is how a finish looks factory-made.
See Spray Painting
Cabinet Refacing and Door Replacement
Cabinet refacing and door replacement mounts fresh doors and fronts onto cabinet boxes that remain sound, or swaps out only the doors too damaged to save, then finishes everything in one colour so nothing looks replaced.
See Refacing and New Doors
Thermofoil, Melamine and Laminate Cabinet Painting
Thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting relies on a bonding primer that grips the slick surfaces a regular primer slides off, sprays hard enamel over it, and strips or replaces any thermofoil door that has already begun to peel.
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Pantry, Laundry and Built-In Cabinet Painting
Pantry, laundry and built-in cabinet painting takes in everything outside the kitchen: the walk-in pantry, the mudroom and laundry cupboards, and the wall units, bookcases and mantels that are fixed to the house and get sprayed right where they stand.
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Two-Tone Kitchens and Island Painting
An island or a run of lowers can carry its own colour, navy, green, charcoal or a stained wood, under a lighter perimeter. The island alone is a job worth booking by itself.
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Bathroom Vanity Painting
Bathroom vanity painting needs one day, sometimes two, and gives the vanity the same degreasing, sanding, priming and sprayed enamel a kitchen gets, leaving a finish hard enough for steam, splashes and wet hands every morning.
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Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Condo kitchen cabinet painting handles a galley kitchen, a building that sets rules on hours and elevators, and the melamine or thermofoil doors most condos carry, with the doors shipped out to the booth and the unit kept livable.
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Cabinet Hardware and Soft-Close Hinges
Cabinet hardware and soft-close hinges round off a painted kitchen: old handle holes get filled ahead of the primer, new ones get drilled through a jig afterward, and tired hinges become soft-close units while the doors are down.
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Cabinet Colour Consultation
Cabinet colour consultation locks in colour and sheen before any paint goes on, by spraying a real door from the kitchen in the real product and judging it under the kitchen's light, matched against the decks the showrooms use.
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A visit means someone looks at the kitchen, counts what is there, and writes the price down. It is free, and saying no afterward is fine.
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