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.
The open-plan kitchens of Talbot Village, Riverbend, Kilally and north Sunningdale were designed around a big island, which is where most owners want the second colour. A colour consultation usually settles the perimeter first, and the island colour gets picked to sit against it.
Painting the island does not oblige anyone to paint the rest. If the white or greige perimeter still looks right it stays, and the island by itself gets sprayed navy or forest green over a day or two of cabinet painting. Its doors and drawer fronts travel to the booth, the island carcass gets masked and sprayed where it stands, and the countertop stays covered the whole time.
Islands take more wear than any other cabinet painting surface in the kitchen. Stools scuff the back panel, feet kick the toe kick, and the drawer with the cutlery is usually here. A two-part polyurethane topcoat is the standard recommendation for an island, because it hardens in a day and shrugs off the scuffs a softer enamel would show.
Two cabinet painting colours in one room have to agree with a third, the countertop. A warm white perimeter with a navy island works over a white or grey quartz. A greige perimeter with a forest green island works over a warm stone or butcher block. Charcoal on the island needs a light perimeter and a light floor or the room closes in.
The sample doors settle it. One door is sprayed in the perimeter colour and one in the island colour, and both are stood in the kitchen against the counter for a week. Cabinet painting in two colours is easy to get wrong from a paint chip and easy to get right from two real doors.
The other kind of two-tone, a stained wood island inside a painted perimeter, is gaining ground. A walnut, white oak or cherry island is sanded or stripped and clear-coated as a refinishing job, while the perimeter gets its cabinet painting in warm white. The two finishes use the same two-part clear and pigmented systems, so the sheen matches across the room.
Ontario market figures put a second colour on an island at roughly $800 to $2,000 over a single-colour kitchen, because it means a second set of primer tints, a second spray setup and extra masking. An island painted on its own, with the perimeter untouched, usually lands under the small-kitchen range. Those ranges describe the market. The written quote separates the perimeter, the island and the hardware so each piece can be kept or dropped.
Whether only the island needs a new colour or the entire kitchen is changing to two colours, book the visit or call +1 (226) 271-3465 and two sample doors will follow. Everything else we do in cabinet painting is described on the home page.
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
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.
