A colour consultation pins down colour and sheen before any spraying starts, with a sample door finished in the real colour and checked in the kitchen's own light against the counters, the floor and the backsplash.
Kitchens facing the lake in Port Dalhousie and the north end get cool light, and the south-facing kitchens off Fourth Avenue and in Martindale get warm afternoon sun, and a white reads differently in each. The work is insured. Every quote includes the consultation.
Warm whites, in the cream and off-white range, have taken over from stark white as the most common cabinet painting colour, because they suit wood floors and stone counters better. Greige covers the mushroom and stone tones that go with both warm and cool rooms. Sage, forest green, navy and charcoal get chosen for islands and for whole kitchens in houses with a lot of light. All of them come from the standard paint decks, and any colour in a deck can be matched for cabinet painting.
A paint chip is business-card sized and the kitchen is room sized. We spray one door, or a sample board, in the chosen colour and sheen, and it stays in the kitchen several days so it can be seen at breakfast, at dinner and under the lights at night. Half of all colour changes happen after the sample door, and none of them cost anything. The final colour is written into the cabinet painting quote once the sample is approved.
A north-facing kitchen pulls a warm white cool, and a south-facing one pushes a greige yellow, so the sample door goes in the actual room. Sheen matters as much. Satin is the cabinet painting standard, because it hides small surface marks and reads soft. Semi-gloss shows more, cleans easier, and is used on some traditional kitchens. High gloss shows every flaw and is rare. Dark colours are almost always satin.
A colour from any maker's deck gets matched in whichever enamel or 2K polyurethane is being sprayed, and the sample door confirms it. A colour from a magazine, a tile or an existing piece of furniture is matched by eye and by spectrophotometer, and again the sample door is the proof. The island page covers pairing a second colour, and the hinges page covers pairing the metal.
Bring a photo of a kitchen you like, or nothing at all, and the sample door does the rest. Book the visit or call +1 (905) 367-8017. The St. Catharines Cabinet Painting home page covers the cabinet painting that follows once the colour is chosen.
The sample door is the step that makes cabinet painting a safe decision, because the colour is seen on an actual door inside the actual kitchen before a single box is sprayed.
Identical prep, primer and sprayed coats go onto all the other cabinets around the house.
Kitchen cabinet painting removes every door and drawer front, degreases and sands the lot, primes for the substrate and sprays thin coats of a hard enamel so an existing kitchen looks new without replacing a single box.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Oak cabinet painting locks the tannins in golden oak under a shellac primer, deals with the open grain by filling it or keeping it, and lays a hard sprayed enamel over 1980s and 1990s doors that are solid, well built and simply the wrong colour.
See Oak Cabinets
Post-war bungalow kitchen cabinet painting restores the original birch and plywood slab doors of 1950s to 1970s kitchens, or the 1980s oak that replaced them, in the small galley layouts those houses were built with.
See Post-War Bungalows
Thermofoil, melamine and laminate doors carry slick factory surfaces where ordinary primer will not hold, so the job begins with bonding primer, plus an honest verdict on the doors worth painting and the ones past saving.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Cabinet spray painting means doors finished in a filtered spray booth, boxes finished behind sealed containment in the kitchen, and thin, even coats of enamel or 2K polyurethane that cure hard with no brush marks, which is cabinet painting done the factory way.
See Spray Painting
Bathroom vanity painting is the smallest job on the list, usually six to ten pieces finished inside one or two days, with a primer and topcoat chosen to stand up to the steam and splashes of a bathroom.
See Bathroom Vanities
Cabinet refinishing keeps the wood. Stripping or sanding takes the old finish off, new stain goes on, and a clear coat seals it, so solid walnut, cherry or white oak doors look new without paint covering the grain.
See Refinishing
A two-tone kitchen puts a painted perimeter beside a darker or wood-toned island, and where the perimeter is already fine, just the island gets sprayed in navy, green or charcoal as a job of its own.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Refacing fits fresh doors and drawer fronts onto boxes that are still sound, and door replacement swaps out a single damaged or delaminated door and sprays it to match, for a fraction of what a full kitchen replacement costs.
See Refacing and New Doors
Condo kitchen cabinet painting deals with a small galley, the building's rules, the elevator and the parking, and because the doors are sprayed away from the building, the unit stays livable while its boxes get sprayed inside two days.
See Condo Kitchens
With the doors already down, the old handle holes are filled and hidden under paint, a template guides fresh drilling, and worn hinges are exchanged for soft-close units sized to the same cup.
See Hardware and Hinges
Cabinet painting for pantries, laundry and mudroom cabinets, built-in wall units, bookcases, window seats and fireplace mantels covers the cabinets that are not in the kitchen, and most of these pieces get finished on site.
See Pantries and Built-InsWe arrive, count the doors and put the quote in writing. The visit costs nothing and there is no pressure to go ahead.
Describe the kitchen as fully as suits you. We phone back to book the visit. Two things send the form: who you are and how to reach you. If you would sooner talk, the number is +1 (905) 367-8017.
