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.
Old North, Old South and Wortley Village century homes hold built-in bookcases and mantels by the dozen, while the newer streets of Talbot Village, Riverbend and Sunningdale have mudroom lockers and laundry uppers the builder painted once and nobody since. Each is cabinet painting work, and each usually gets tacked onto a kitchen painting visit.
A fireplace wall unit or a floor-to-ceiling bookcase is fastened to the house and stays there. Furniture leaves the room or gets covered, floor-to-ceiling plastic closes off the unit, an exhaust fan vents through a window, and the piece gets its degreasing, sanding, priming and spraying right there, in coats as thin as any kitchen door gets in the booth. Shelves that lift out are sprayed flat in another room or taken to the booth. Doors, where there are any, go to the booth as usual.
A built-in in Old South that has been painted several times since the 1920s is checked before it is sanded, because any paint applied before 1980 might carry lead, and a test kit settles it before any aggressive sanding starts.
A pantry cabinet takes more traffic than any upper in the kitchen. Its doors open a dozen times a day, its shelves carry weight, and its interior is on view every time it opens. Pantry cabinet painting usually includes the interior and the shelves, which is one of the few places interiors are worth the cost, and its doors travel to the booth in the same batch as the kitchen's.
Laundry and mudroom cabinets take wet coats, boots and detergent. A two-part polyurethane topcoat is the usual recommendation because it hardens in a day and cleans with a damp cloth, and the toe kicks and lower doors, which take the most abuse, receive every coat the rest does.
A painted mantel in a Wortley Village house, the wainscoting in the dining room beside it, or the trim around the built-in often get sprayed in that same session so sheen and colour match the cabinet painting. Trim is masked and sprayed on site in the same session. A mantel that is stained wood and worth keeping is clear-coated as refinishing instead, and the visit sorts out which.
Built-ins are priced by the piece and its size rather than by door count, and a wall unit or a pantry usually lands from the low hundreds to the low thousands depending on its footage and whether interiors are included. Added to a kitchen job, a pantry or laundry cabinet is a single extra line at a per-door figure inside the Ontario market range of $130 to $250. Treat those as market figures only; the number that applies arrives in writing after the visit. Island work is priced the same way, as the island painting page explains.
Send a photo of the piece with a rough width and height, use the form or call +1 (226) 271-3465, and the quote follows. The London Cabinet Painting home page explains how built-ins fit alongside kitchen cabinet painting.
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
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
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.
