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.
Sound boxes with dated or damaged doors are common in the 1980s and 1990s kitchens across Vansickle, Grantham and Fairview. The work is insured, and refacing is quoted alongside cabinet painting so the two can be compared on one page.
One door with peeled thermofoil beside the dishwasher, one drawer front swollen by a leak beneath the sink, or a door cracked at its hinge does not condemn the kitchen. A replacement door is made or ordered to match the size and profile, then primed and sprayed alongside the rest of the kitchen in the same booth, so it matches exactly. This is the fix the thermofoil and melamine page points to when a door is past painting.
Full refacing swaps every door and drawer front for new ones, usually shaker or slab in MDF or maple, and the box ends and face frames that show get matching veneer or paint. The boxes, the counters, the plumbing and the layout stay. Because the new doors arrive unfinished or primed, they get the same cabinet painting system as a repaint, and the boxes get sprayed in place to match.
Refacing makes sense when cabinet painting cannot save the doors, when the profile is dated beyond what colour can fix, or when the customer wants a shaker door and has slabs. Cabinet painting makes sense when the doors are still sound and the profile is fine.
Across Ontario, refacing a typical kitchen runs $3,000 to $10,000, against $2,500 to $5,500 for painting the same kitchen and $15,000 to $40,000 or more for replacing it. Per door, a new painted door costs roughly two to three times a repainted one. Those figures describe the market, and your kitchen's price is the one written in the quote, door by door.
New doors mean new hinge cups and new handle holes drilled fresh, so this is the cheapest moment to switch to soft-close hinges and to a different pull size. The hardware and hinges page covers the choices. On a mixed job, where some doors are new and some are repainted, the repainted doors get old holes filled and redrilled to the same template so every handle lines up.
If one door is ruined or every door is dated, book the visit or call +1 (905) 367-8017, and refacing and cabinet painting get priced side by side. The St. Catharines Cabinet Painting home page covers the painting side and the rest of what we do.
Refacing keeps the boxes and swaps the fronts, cabinet painting keeps both, and the written quote sets the two side by side so you choose on real numbers.
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
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-Ins
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.
See Colour ConsultationWe 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.
