Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Markham, Ontario

Why Choose A Cabinet Painting Company That Does Nothing Else

Cabinet painting is the only trade we work in, so the sequence is settled and no part of it gets shortened. Each drawer front and each door is tagged before it comes off. Grease is cut, the surface is sanded dull, the primer is picked for whatever lies underneath, and colour arrives in thin sprayed passes with each one scuffed before the next. Doors ride to the shop booth while sealed plastic goes up around the boxes, which are coated where they stand.

None of that begins before the quote is on paper. Doors, drawer fronts, boxes, material, primer, topcoat, sheen and coat count all appear on it with a price attached. Two cabinet painting quotes can only be compared when both name those things. The method is set out at more length on our about page, and a date gets set through the contact page.

There are kitchens we turn away. Thermofoil curling beside a dishwasher, a sink base gone spongy and doors whose edges crumble under a thumbnail all make poor candidates for cabinet painting, and you hear that during the visit rather than after a deposit.

A Basement Second Kitchen Is Ordinary In Markham, Not Unusual

Roughly one Markham household in ten is multi-generational, and a great many of those houses cook downstairs to keep the main kitchen clean. Those basement kitchens are usually melamine or builder MDF, and cabinet painting has to cope with anything from a barely touched room to months of wok grease and steam.

Second kitchen cabinet painting is quoted alongside the main kitchen so setup, masking and travel are paid for once instead of twice. A heavily used one needs solvent degreasing before anything else, and the colour can either follow the upstairs kitchen or deliberately depart from it.

Brush Marks Are The Reason Most Painted Kitchens Look Painted

Spraying is the single largest difference between trade cabinet painting and a do-it-yourself weekend. A brush leaves ridges and lap lines across a shaker panel, a roller leaves stipple, and both hold grime in the texture for years.

Cabinet spray painting lays doors and drawer fronts flat inside a filtered booth for thin passes, sanded between. Face frames and boxes are done in the kitchen itself, inside containment taped shut at every opening. The film that results is even from box to door, hard enough to wipe and free of stroke marks.

A Navy Or Green Island Against Pale Perimeter Cabinets Is The Common Request

Most colour requests reaching us in Markham are for two tones rather than one. Detached houses make up 56 per cent of the city, higher still in the suburban pockets, so kitchens here are large and an island sits at the centre of almost every one.

Island and two-tone cabinet painting matches the pair under the light of the room they will live in, and when the perimeter is already sound, the island alone becomes the booking. Two days of cabinet painting covers most islands.

Some Wood Is Worth Keeping Rather Than Painting

Walnut, cherry and white oak deserve a second look before cabinet painting, because the wood is often sound and only the finish has gone. Angus Glen, Wismer, Cachet and early Cornell kitchens from the 2000s often hold cherry or dark maple that has yellowed and worn thin near the sink and beside the range.

Cabinet refinishing answers a different question than cabinet painting does. Sanding or stripping lifts off what is left of the old coating, stain corrects wherever the colour has shifted, and a clear coat sprayed on top seals the wood again. We say out loud which kitchens belong in that column, because a cabinet painting company that paints everything it is shown is not giving advice.

Condo Kitchens Come With Building Rules Before They Come With Colour

Downtown Markham around Enterprise Boulevard and Unionville GO is the fastest growing part of the city, and Milliken Mills West is more than half high-rise. Those galley kitchens are small, usually melamine, and cabinet painting in them is governed by rules on elevator booking, corridor protection and odour.

Condo kitchen cabinet painting takes the doors right out of the building, and the spraying and the odour go with them, while boxes need a day or two inside containment. Nothing on our list costs less than a galley.

Vanities Are Small Jobs That Usually Travel With The Kitchen

A vanity is a day, sometimes two, and it is almost always bundled into a larger booking. The oak or thermofoil in the kitchen is generally the same oak or thermofoil in the main bath and the ensuite, and doing both at once costs less than doing them apart.

Bathroom vanity painting runs through the same cabinet painting routine of degreasing, priming and spraying, with extra attention below the sink where steam and splash have been collecting for years. A vanity base that has already swelled gets flagged at the visit, since no coating repairs wet particleboard.