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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Century Home Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Century Home Kitchen Cabinet Painting In Guelph, Ontario
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.
Downtown Guelph, St. George's Park, Exhibition Park, the Ward and Old University are full of limestone and brick houses from the 1850s to the 1930s, and a lot of them still have the kitchen a carpenter built on site. The work is insured, and every century home cabinet painting quote is written after a visit, because no two of these kitchens are alike.
Century Home Kitchen Cabinet Painting details
Cabinets In A Pre-1980 Kitchen Are Tested For Lead Before Anyone Sands
Paint applied before 1980 may contain lead, and sanding it without knowing is the risk. A site-built kitchen on Liverpool Street or Water Street that has been painted six times since the 1920s almost certainly carries some of that old paint under the newer layers. So before any century home kitchen cabinet painting starts, the old layers are tested with a kit, or sent to a lab if the kit is unclear.
If the test is positive, the prep changes. Loose paint is removed wet or with a vacuum-shrouded sander, the area is contained, and the sound layers are sealed under primer rather than sanded through. We never describe a finished kitchen as free of lead, because that is not a claim cabinet painting can make. We describe the test. We describe what was tested, what was found and what was done about it, and it goes in the quote.
Old Paint Layers Have To Be Made Sound Before Cabinet Painting Goes Over Them
Thick old paint fails at the edges of doors and around the knobs, where it chips down to bare wood in steps. New paint over those steps shows every one of them. The chipped edges are feathered back with a sander or a scraper until the transition is smooth, low spots are filled, and the whole door is sealed with a shellac primer that sticks to old oil paint, blocks stains from a century of cooking, and gives the new enamel a clean base.
Soft or alligatored paint that has lost its grip cannot be primed over. Those doors are stripped to wood. Where a door is too far gone, a new door is made to match the old profile, as described on the door replacement page, and painted with the rest.
Doors That Were Made By Hand Do Not Hang Square Before Cabinet Painting
A century kitchen has doors that were cut to fit their openings one at a time, on hinges that have worn oval over eighty years. Cabinet painting does not straighten a door, but the doors are planed where they bind, the hinge screws are reset into fresh wood or the hinges are replaced, and the doors are hung to close cleanly before the last coat goes on. Plaster dust from the walls and ceiling is vacuumed out of every joint and corner first, because a sprayed finish shows every speck it lands on.
The boxes are usually pine or poplar and stay in place. They get cleaned, sanded, primed and sprayed where they stand inside a sealed room, like the boxes in any kitchen cabinet painting job.
Century Home Cabinet Painting Colours That Suit A House Built In 1890
A heritage colour reads right on a century kitchen: a warm cream, a soft grey-green, a deep blue or a muted red on the lowers. Bright white can look like a modern kitchen dropped into an old room. Cabinet painting colours are matched to heritage paint decks and sprayed on a real door from the kitchen so the colour is judged in the room's own light. The cabinet colour consultation page covers how that sample is made.
Sheen counts for as much as the colour does here. Satin hides the small unevenness in hand-planed wood; gloss shows it.
Book A Century Home Kitchen Cabinet Painting Visit In Guelph
If the kitchen was built by hand in a limestone house downtown or in the Ward, send the address or call +1 (226) 271-3466 and the test kit comes with us. The Guelph Cabinet Painting home page covers cabinet painting for newer kitchens across the city.
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More Cabinet Painting Services
The same degreasing, primer and sprayed enamel go into every other job we take on.
Cabinet Refinishing
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Say as much or as little about the kitchen as you like. A phone call follows to set the visit, and the form sends once it holds a way of reaching you. For a conversation instead of a form, call +1 (226) 271-3466.
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