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.
London condo towers along Richmond Street and Ridout Street, the stacked townhouses off Wonderland Road and Southdale Road, and the apartment condos near Masonville were fitted with melamine or thermofoil, both explained on the plastic-faced door page. The building is the other half of the job.
Condo corporations across London typically restrict trades to weekday hours, roughly eight until five, insist that anything bigger than a suitcase rides a booked and padded elevator, and confine contractor vehicles to a loading zone or visitor stall. A few want insurance documents on file first, which we supply. A condo cabinet painting job gets scheduled around those rules from the first call, so the doors leave on a booked elevator and the on-site spraying finishes inside the allowed hours.
The unit's neighbours matter too. On-site spraying is done behind sealed plastic with an exhaust fan ducted to a window, using low-VOC waterborne products, so the hallway does not smell like a paint shop.
A condo has nowhere to stack twelve doors and no second kitchen. So the doors and drawer fronts go out with us on the first day, get primed, sprayed and hardened at the booth, and return roughly a week on. Meanwhile the doorless boxes serve as shelves, cooking and washing up carry on, and nobody lives in a construction site. The boxes get degreased, scuffed, bond-primed and sprayed inside containment in a single day.
That split is what makes condo kitchen cabinet painting a two-day job in the unit, with the noise, dust and smell of a small kitchen rather than a full renovation.
Ten doors get the same steps as forty. Each door is labelled, degreased, sanded, primed for melamine or thermofoil with a bonding primer, and given two or three light sprayed coats, sanded in between. The difference is time and price, not method. A condo cabinet painting job in London usually lands between the small-kitchen figure of about $1,500 and the low end of the $2,500 to $5,500 range that most kitchens fall in, with the written quote as the real number.
Hardware is often the biggest visual change in a galley kitchen. Swapping builder knobs for bar pulls and adding soft-close hinges on doors that slam against a neighbour's wall is covered on the hardware page, and it is done at the same visit.
A galley kitchen with one window wants a light, warm colour. Warm whites and pale greiges bounce the light, and a satin sheen reads brighter than matte without the glare of semi-gloss. Navy or charcoal on the lower cabinets with white uppers works even in a small kitchen if the floor is light. The sample door is stood in the actual unit under its actual light before the cabinet painting is scheduled.
Give us the building's name and roughly how many doors, and we will handle the elevator booking and the insurance paperwork. Use the form or call +1 (226) 271-3465. The London Cabinet Painting home page covers cabinet painting for houses and rentals as well as condos.
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
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.
See Spray Painting
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
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.
