A spray gun lays hard enamel onto cabinet doors in thin, even passes that a brush cannot match, leaving a factory-smooth surface with no ridges, stroke marks or drips where grease can gather or chips can start.
Doors from London kitchens travel to the booth while their boxes get sprayed in place from Byron to Dorchester. The method is the same one used on a kitchen that arrives new from a factory, which is why a sprayed cabinet painting job is the one that still looks right in ten years. The oak cabinet painting page explains the extra grain work that sprayed oak needs.
A brush leaves ridges. On a door those ridges hold grease, show under every light in the kitchen, and are the thinnest, weakest points in the film, so chips start along them. Rolled paint leaves a stipple that does the same and fails the same way. Cabinet spray painting lays the enamel down in a mist that flows together and levels into one flat skin before it sets.
The sprayed film is also thinner and more even. One heavy brushed coat remains soft underneath for weeks and takes a fingernail dent. Three light sprayed coats, with a quick sanding separating each, cure all the way through into a shell harder than the wall paint around them.
Once labelled and removed, the doors and drawer fronts head to a filtered, heated spray booth. Booth air is clean, its temperature holds steady and its humidity is managed, which matters in a London July when the outdoor humidity slows a waterborne finish and can cloud it. Each door is sprayed flat, flipped when dry, and stacked on racks to harden, which is the part of cabinet painting a kitchen never sees.
Boxes cannot leave. The kitchen is sealed off with plastic from floor to ceiling, the counters and appliances are wrapped, the range hood runs, and the frames and end panels receive the same fine sprayed coats. The plastic comes down at the end of the day. Cabinet spray painting on site is dusty for one day and clean the next.
Two product families do most of the cabinet spray painting work. Waterborne alkyd enamels brush and spray well, cure to a hard satin or semi-gloss, can be used normally after roughly seven days, and are fully hard after thirty. Two-part polyurethane, the paint-plus-hardener system factories use, is spray-only, hardens overnight, and outlasts every other cabinet painting product against chemicals and wear.
The cabinet painting quote names which system goes on. A busy family kitchen in Sunningdale or a rental in Old North gets the two-part system. A lightly used kitchen with a colour matched from a paint deck can use the waterborne enamel. Either way, the cure time is on the care sheet.
Dry is not cured, and every care sheet should say so. A door that feels dry within an hour is still soft inside for days, and a heavy pot lid or a wet cloth left on it will leave a mark. Cabinet painting done with a waterborne enamel wants gentle use for two weeks. Two-part polyurethane is ready in a day or two. Neither wants an abrasive pad or a kitchen degreaser on it for the first month, and the care sheet says so plainly.
If a brushed cabinet painting job has already failed or the doors show every stroke, cabinet spray painting can usually go over it once the old film is sanded flat. send a photo or call +1 (226) 271-3465 and we will say what can be saved. The London Cabinet Painting home page lists every cabinet painting service the booth and the on-site rig cover.
Whatever the cabinet, vanity, pantry, island or built-in, the prep, primer and sprayed enamel match what the kitchen received.
Kitchen cabinet painting keeps the kitchen you have: doors, drawer fronts and boxes are each prepped to suit their material, then sprayed with a hard enamel in a fresh colour, for far less than replacing anything.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Refinishing suits cabinets built from wood too good to hide. Stripping or sanding removes the tired old finish, a new stain goes on if a different colour is wanted, and a hard clear coat locks the grain in.
See Refinishing
Golden oak from the 1980s becomes a current painted kitchen through oak cabinet painting: tannins get sealed under a shellac primer, the open grain gets filled or stays on show, and a hard sprayed enamel goes over top.
See Oak Cabinets
Slick factory surfaces such as thermofoil, melamine and laminate shed ordinary paint, so this kind of cabinet painting starts with an adhesion primer that grips them, followed by a sprayed enamel topcoat that holds for years.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Refacing hangs brand-new doors and drawer fronts on cabinet boxes still worth keeping, or replaces a lone damaged door, after which every piece is sprayed at once so the whole kitchen reads as one matched set.
See Refacing and New Doors
A two-tone kitchen sets a light painted perimeter against an island done in stained wood, charcoal, green or navy, and the island can be done as part of the whole kitchen or sprayed by itself as its own small job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Condo kitchen cabinet painting suits a galley with somewhere between ten and fifteen doors, respects the building's rules on hours, elevators and parking, and sends the doors away to the booth so the suite remains livable while the work is done.
See Condo Kitchens
Painting a bathroom vanity takes a day or two: its doors, drawer fronts and box get the full kitchen prep and a sprayed enamel that tolerates steam, at a fraction of a kitchen's size and price.
See Bathroom Vanities
Rental property cabinet painting gives landlords a durable, sprayed, wipe-clean kitchen finish between tenants, priced per unit and scheduled around move-out dates, with hardware and hinge fixes done at the same visit.
See Rental Properties
Tall pantries, laundry and mudroom cabinets, wall units, bookcases and fireplace mantels are built into the house, so instead of going to a booth they get sprayed in position behind sealed plastic, using the same hard enamel a kitchen gets.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Hardware and hinge work rides along with a painted kitchen: abandoned handle holes get filled and sanded smooth, a drilling template places the new ones, soft-close hinges replace the tired originals, and the metal finish is picked to suit the colour.
See Hardware and Hinges
Colour and sheen get settled before any cabinet painting begins, on full-size sample doors sprayed in the actual product and left standing in the actual kitchen, with the colour matched from whichever paint deck the owner prefers.
See Colour ConsultationSomeone comes out, counts doors, checks the material and writes up the quote. There is no fee for the visit and nothing to sign.
Give us whatever you know about the kitchen, and a call comes back to arrange a time. A name plus a phone number gets the form through. To skip the form and talk it over, call +1 (226) 271-3465.
