Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Hamilton, Ontario

What Are The Benefits Of Cabinet Painting Over A Full Kitchen Replacement

Cabinet painting costs a fraction of a new kitchen. Most Hamilton kitchens land between $2,500 and $5,500 for cabinet painting, against $15,000 to $40,000 and up for replacement cabinetry.

The boxes stay put. Solid plywood or particleboard carcasses that are square and dry have nothing wrong with them, so cabinet painting works on the doors, fronts and frames and leaves the counters and backsplash alone.

The kitchen stays usable. Doors travel to the shop while the boxes are coated on site, and shelves keep holding dishes through most of the job.

Colour is no longer fixed by whatever the builder ordered. A sprayed finish comes in any warm white, greige, sage, navy or charcoal on a paint deck.

Sprayed coats lie flat. Thin passes of enamel level out in a way that a brush across a raised panel never does, and the film chips less at the handles.

Less goes to the landfill. A set of oak doors from 1990 is better wood than most new builder cabinetry, and cabinet painting keeps it in the house.

Century Brick House Kitchens Need Lead Testing Before Cabinet Painting Starts

Lead may sit in any paint applied before 1980, so site-built cabinets in an older house get tested before a sander is switched on. That covers most of the lower city, the North End, Crown Point, Gibson, Stipley, Durand, Kirkendall and the older streets of Dundas and Ancaster Village, where brick houses raised between 1890 and 1950 hold kitchens that have been painted many times over.

Those kitchens bring other problems with them. Doors sit out of square, hinges are worn, rail and stile edges carry decades of build-up, and plaster dust finds everything. The century brick home cabinet painting page covers how we handle them without stripping the character out of the room.

Thermofoil Doors Lift At The Dishwasher And The Range First

Heat and steam are what peel thermofoil, which is why the failure always starts beside the dishwasher or above the range. A door whose vinyl skin is already lifting is not a cabinet painting candidate, because paint does not stick the skin back down. It gets stripped to the bare board or replaced.

Doors that are still tight all over take a waterborne bonding primer and coat up well. Melamine is the same story and turns up constantly in Hamilton condo and rental kitchens and in 2000s builds out in Binbrook and Mount Hope. Read thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting before deciding.

Some Kitchens Are Worth Keeping As Wood Rather Than Cabinet Painting

Walnut, cherry and white oak with sound veneer usually look better refinished than painted. The old finish is stripped or sanded away, new stain goes on if the colour needs to shift, and a sprayed clear coat seals it.

Refinishing rather than cabinet painting suits the 1960s and 1970s Mountain bungalows around Concession Street and the Dundas slopes, where the original wood is better than anything sold at that price now. Our cabinet refinishing page sets out when the wood wins and when cabinet painting wins.

Cabinet Painting A Whole Kitchen Takes Days, Not Weeks

A standard cabinet painting job is on site two to three days and finished inside one to two weeks, counting shop time for the doors. Day one is degreasing, labelling and removal, and no colour goes on anything.

Cabinet painting prices in this market start near $1,500 for a small galley and reach $6,000 or more on a large two-tone kitchen, with $2,500 to $5,500 the usual middle. Those are market ranges. The written quote is the number that applies to your kitchen. Kitchen cabinet painting walks through the full sequence.

Two Colours In One Kitchen Is Now The Common Cabinet Painting Request

Painted perimeter cabinets with a navy, green or wood island is the pattern almost everyone asks about, and it costs more because it is a second colour, a second setup and a second cure. An island on its own is a real cabinet painting job too, often done in a day and a half.

Colour is harder than it looks under Hamilton light. North-facing lower city kitchens with high ceilings pull greige grey, while a west-facing Mountain kitchen warms a white up by the afternoon. We spray a door taken off your own kitchen in the colour being considered. See two-tone kitchens and island painting and cabinet colour consultation.

Condo Cabinet Painting Has Rules That A House Kitchen Does Not

Booking the elevator, holding a parking spot and keeping odour down matter as much as the cabinet painting itself in a downtown condo. Doors head off to the booth on day one, so the kitchen stays livable with open shelves until they return.

The towers along King Street East and around King and Queen are full of small galley kitchens in melamine or factory white shaker, and the work is colour change or damage repair rather than age. Condo kitchen cabinet painting covers the building side of it.