The first benefit is price, since cabinet painting runs far below the cost of new boxes. Most whole kitchens in Toronto fall between $2,800 and $6,000, while a new kitchen in the same footprint often starts near $17,000.
Don Mills Cabinet Painting
Don Mills, Toronto ยท Mid-century bungalows, backsplits and condos
Kitchen Cabinet Painting In Don Mills, Toronto
Cabinet Painting In Don Mills For Bungalows, Backsplits And Condos
Don Mills Cabinet Painting provides kitchen cabinet painting to Don Mills, Banbury-Don Mills, Parkwoods, Graydon Hall, Donalda and Flemingdon Park, along with sprayed finishes, veneer refinishing, replacement doors and vanity updates for owners, landlords and condo residents. The business is fully insured on every job it takes. We visit at no charge, then send a quote on paper showing how many doors and drawers we counted, what prep they need, which primer and topcoat we chose, how many coats go on and what it all costs.
Call +1 (647) 370-5216.
Benefits
What Are The Benefits Of Cabinet Painting Over A New Kitchen?
The layout stays with cabinet painting. Most Don Mills kitchens were laid out thoughtfully when the houses went up, so a room that functions well can get a new look without demolition.
The house stays usable during cabinet painting. While the doors are away being sprayed and the boxes get their coats on site, meals can still be made on most days.
Colour is back in your hands. Swapping a dated stain for greige, sage, deep navy, charcoal or a soft white takes a single sprayed system.
A sprayed finish wears well. Thin coats of cabinet enamel cure hard and resist chipping at the handles far better than wall paint.
Cabinet painting keeps sound wood in the house. Mid-century plywood carcasses tend to outlast the pressed-board boxes in many new kitchens.
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Roughly how many fronts, and which street? That is all we need to book a free visit. Or call +1 (647) 370-5216.
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What We Do
Services For Mid-Century Kitchens
Each card leads to a page about the prep, the products and how that price comes together.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Doors and drawer faces come down, get cleaned of grease, scuffed, primed for their substrate and sprayed with durable enamel, then go back up. Kitchen cabinet painting changes the colour of the entire room without touching the counters, the flooring or the floor plan.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Mid-Century Modern Cabinet Painting
Flat slab doors, clean lines and simple pulls make mid-century kitchens some of the best candidates for cabinet painting anywhere in Toronto. The job is about keeping the style of the house while giving the cabinets a hard, fresh finish.
See Mid-Century Kitchens
Oak Cabinet Painting
Tannin inside oak stains water-based primer, and the deep pores telegraph through colour unless someone fills them. Oak cabinet painting starts with a stain-blocking primer and a decision about the grain.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet Refinishing
Good wood can be kept in view by sanding or stripping the old finish, adjusting the stain and sealing it under a sprayed clear coat. Refinishing makes sense whenever the timber itself is more valuable than any paint colour could add.
See Refinishing
Cabinet Spray Painting
Sprayed enamel lands as a fine fog that settles into a single even layer with no bristle tracks. Cabinet painting applied like this resembles a new factory door rather than a home repaint.
See Spray Painting
Thermofoil, Melamine and Laminate Cabinet Painting
Glossy factory doors call for a specialty bonding coat, since standard primer has nothing to hold on to. Paint works well on sound melamine and laminate, and on thermofoil only while its vinyl skin is still tight.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Cabinet Refacing and Door Replacement
Fresh doors can go onto your existing carcasses, and the frames are then painted or veneered so everything agrees. A single damaged door can also be replaced and sprayed with the rest of the kitchen during cabinet painting so it blends in.
See Refacing and New Doors
Two-Tone Kitchens and Island Painting
People most often ask for pale upper cabinets above deeper lowers in sage, charcoal or navy, with the island carrying the darker shade. Painting just the island counts as a complete booking too.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Bathroom Vanity Painting
One vanity usually needs a day, two at most, and barely interrupts household routines. Its doors are sprayed off site and its box is coated in place, so this short cabinet painting job returns the bathroom to you fast.
See Bathroom Vanities
Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Most condo galleys hold ten to fifteen doors and drawer fronts, so the work goes fast. Cabinet work in a tower runs smoothly once the elevator, parking and odour plan are agreed with the building.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry, Laundry and Built-In Cabinet Painting
Laundry uppers, pantry doors, entry lockers, shelving units and fitted wall cabinets are finished with the kitchen's exact primer and sprayed enamel. Because they are attached to the house, the work is done on site inside plastic sheeting.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Cabinet Hardware and Soft-Close Hinges
Unused handle holes get plugged and hidden beneath the finish, while a jig places each new hole so pulls sit perfectly level. Loose hinges get swapped at the same time, since cabinet painting already has every door down.
See Hardware and Hinges
Cabinet Colour Consultation
Cream, greige, soft white, sage, charcoal and navy are the current favourites, yet a tiny store swatch proves almost nothing. We spray one of your doors in the actual cabinet painting colour and set it back in your room.
See Colour Consultation
Why Us
Why Choose Don Mills Cabinet Painting For A Mid-Century House
The first reason is that we price from a count taken in your kitchen. Every door, drawer front, end panel and filler strip is tallied before a number is written down. A cabinet painting quote built that way can be checked line by line against the finished room.
The second reason is the method. Doors come off, get a number and go to a spray booth. The boxes stay on the wall and get coated in place behind plastic sheeting. Your sink, stove and fridge stay in service from start to finish. You can read how a job is run on the about page.
The third reason is that we know the houses here. A 1954 backsplit off The Donway, a 1960s two-story on Banbury Road and a tower unit on Graydon Hall Drive all hold very different cabinets. Each one needs a different first step, and cabinet painting only lasts when that first step is right. When you are ready, book a visit from the contact page.
Get This Job Priced
We come to the house, count every opening, check the material and set out the scope on paper. The visit and quote cost nothing.
Cabinet painting information for Don Mills property owners
Original Slab Doors Are The Most Common Cabinet Painting Job In Don Mills
Flat slab doors are the kitchen we see most in the older quadrants. Houses built here from 1953 into the 1960s were held to strict modern design rules, and the kitchens followed the same plain lines. Many that survive carry flush slab doors in birch or mahogany plywood.
Of all door styles, the flat slab is the easiest to finish well with cabinet painting. With no panel edges or grooves to catch the spray, the enamel settles evenly from one edge to the other. The work is mostly in the prep: decades of cooking film, thin original varnish and veneer edges that burn through if they are sanded hard. Our mid-century modern cabinet painting page covers these kitchens in detail.
Golden Oak From A 1990s Kitchen Update Bleeds Through Paint
Every oak job begins with a primer that locks in stain, and only then does the cabinet painting start. The wood holds tannin, and tannin turns water-based primer brown or pink along the rails. A shellac-based primer seals it in for good.
Oak showed up in Don Mills when owners replaced the original kitchens in the 1980s and 1990s, and it fills a good share of Parkwoods and Banbury-Don Mills houses too. The open grain is the second choice to make. It can be filled smooth or left to show through the colour. Both options and their costs are laid out under oak cabinet painting.
Walnut And Teak Veneer Can Be Worth Keeping As Wood
Some cabinets should be refinished instead of painted. Real walnut or teak veneer in good shape is hard to find today, and a fresh clear coat often suits a mid-century house better than colour does.
We look at veneer thickness, past repairs and the condition of the old finish before giving an answer. If the veneer has been sanded thin or has lifted at the edges, cabinet painting becomes the better choice. Our refinishing page sets out the cases where showing off the grain is the smarter call.
Brushed Cabinet Paint Leaves Marks That Show Under Pot Lights
Spraying is what gives cabinet painting a factory look. Bristle marks stay in the dried coat, and pendants or pot lights over the counter pick out every one of them. With a spray gun, the enamel arrives as tiny droplets that merge into a level skin before drying.
Doors and drawer fronts travel to our spray booth, where the air is filtered and kept clean. Face frames and carcasses get their coats in your kitchen, inside a plastic enclosure, with counters and flooring protected. Our two coating systems are compared under spraying cabinets.
Thermofoil And Melamine Need A Bonding Primer First
Ordinary primer cannot hang on to glossy factory skins, so cabinet painting over thermofoil, melamine or laminate opens with a specialty bonding coat. Without it, the paint peels off in sheets within a year.
Thermofoil has one more limit. If the vinyl skin is already lifting near the dishwasher or stove, no paint will hold it down. Those doors get stripped or replaced. Condo units in Flemingdon Park and along Don Mills Road often have these doors. Read thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting before you book.
A Few Damaged Doors Do Not Mean A New Kitchen
One swollen or split door can be replaced and sprayed with the rest of the run until nobody can tell which one is new. That keeps a whole kitchen from being torn out for one bad sink door.
Refacing becomes the in-between route, cheaper than a gut job but above cabinet painting, once most doors are beyond saving. New doors on the boxes you own usually run $3,500 to $11,000 in Toronto. All three paths are weighed side by side under refacing and new doors.
A Painted Island In A Second Colour Is The Most Requested Look
Two-tone cabinet painting usually means a light perimeter with a darker island in navy, sage or charcoal. Because another colour means extra masking, extra gun cleanup and extra drying time, it is priced above a one-colour job.
A painted island can also be a job on its own. Split-level houses in Don Mills often had a wall knocked out to open the kitchen, and the new island becomes the obvious place for colour. Prices for this look sit under two-colour kitchens and islands.
Condo Cabinet Painting Needs Building Rules Settled First
Condo cabinet painting depends on the building as much as the kitchen. Elevator bookings, loading times, work hours and odour all get sorted out with the property manager before a date is set.
The towers around the Shops at Don Mills, along Graydon Hall Drive and through Flemingdon Park mostly have small galley kitchens. Removing the doors on the first morning keeps odour and dust away from neighbours in the hall. See condo kitchen cabinet painting for the steps.
Bathroom Vanities Are Quick Jobs That Pair Well With A Kitchen
A vanity is the smallest cabinet painting job in a house and usually takes a day or two. Bathrooms see steam every morning, so the primer and enamel are chosen to handle water.
Adding a vanity to a kitchen booking saves money, since the setup and travel are already paid for. See bathroom vanity painting for the details.
Pantries, Laundry Rooms And Built-Ins Match Once The Kitchen Is Done
Laundry uppers, pantry doors, entry lockers and fitted bookshelves receive exactly the kitchen's primer and enamel. Since they are anchored to the house, their cabinet painting happens right where they sit, sealed off with plastic.
Don Mills backsplits often have a lower-level family room with built-in shelving, and the laundry sits nearby with its own cupboards. Those rooms look left behind once the kitchen changes colour. Read more about laundry, pantry and built-in work.
Mid-Century Doors Often Have No Holes For Modern Handles
Many original slab doors used a finger pull cut into the edge or a single small knob. Bar pulls need new holes bored through those doors, and that labour gets its own line in the cabinet painting price.
Any unused hole gets a wood plug and filler ahead of priming, and it vanishes under the colour. A jig guides each new hole, which keeps the pulls level along a run. Tired hinges are easy to trade for quiet soft-close ones with every door already down. Our hardware and hinge page has the options.
The Right Colour Looks Different In A Ravine Lot Kitchen
Light changes cabinet colour more than most people expect. A Don Mills kitchen facing a treed ravine gets green, filtered light, and a cool grey can look flat in it. A west-facing room warms every white by late afternoon.
A sample door from your own kitchen, sprayed in the colour you are weighing, settles the choice. You live with it for several days, and only then do we book the cabinet painting. The cabinet colour consultation page shows how it works.
Toronto Humidity Changes How Cabinet Paint Cures
Toronto summers are humid and the winters are dry once the furnace runs. Water-based enamel cures slower in muggy air, so a July job may need an extra day between coats.
Solid wood also moves with the seasons. If a hairline opens at a panel joint during the coldest weeks and shuts again by June, that is seasonal wood movement and not a flaw in the cabinet painting. Flat slab doors barely show it, which is one more reason the original Don Mills kitchens finish so well.
Split-Level Kitchens Take The Most Wear In The House
Cabinet painting in a backsplit or side-split has to stand up to heavy daily use. In these houses the kitchen sits on the middle level, beside the front door and the dining room, so every trip in and out of the house passes it.
That traffic lands on the drawer edges and the doors nearest the entry. We use the harder coating on those runs when the family asks for it, and we point out the busiest doors at the visit. With so many split-levels in Don Mills and Parkwoods, this comes up on a large share of our cabinet painting visits.
What Cabinet Painting Costs In Don Mills
Most whole kitchens in Toronto fall between $2,800 and $6,000. A small condo galley can start near $1,700, while large or two-tone kitchens run from $6,500 to $10,000 or more. Per door, expect roughly $145 to $275.
Those are market ranges for the city, not your price. Your real figure comes on paper once we have stood in the room. The kitchen cabinet painting page lists what moves the price up or down.
Service Area
Serving Don Mills, Banbury-Don Mills, Parkwoods, Graydon Hall, Donalda And Flemingdon Park
Our cabinet painting work covers the four original Don Mills quadrants on both sides of Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East, the streets off The Donway, and the houses between Leslie Street and the Don Valley Parkway. It also covers Banbury-Don Mills, Parkwoods, Graydon Hall, Donalda and the towers of Flemingdon Park south of Eglinton Avenue East.
York Mills Road, Lawrence Avenue East and Don Mills Road tie the whole area together, and cabinet painting visits are booked across all of it. Share your street on our contact form and we will pick a visit time with you.
Our Process
What Happens During A Cabinet Painting Job In Don Mills?
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The job starts with a visit. During the visit we count openings, identify the material and examine the roughest door, then email a written cabinet painting scope.
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Day one starts with unscrewing each door and drawer face, labelling it and taking pictures of where it goes. Hinges go into labelled bags so each one returns to its own door.
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Next comes cleaning. Kitchen grease is removed with a strong degreaser, because paint will not stick to a greasy film no matter how good it is.
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Next, the doors travel to the spray booth. They are filled, sanded, primed with the right primer for the material and sprayed with two or three coats of enamel.
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Meanwhile the carcasses and frames in your kitchen get scuffed, primed and sprayed inside a taped plastic enclosure. Counters, floors and nearby rooms stay covered.
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The doors come back and are rehung. Hinges are adjusted until the gaps line up, the hardware goes on, and we walk the kitchen with you before the cabinet painting is called done.
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The finish is dry in hours but takes days to harden. Treat it kindly for roughly ten days and it will stay fresh far longer.
Our Work
Close-Ups And Finished Kitchens
Sage, greige, charcoal, cream and blue finishes, plus a look at the prep that goes into each door.
Keep The Cabinets, Change The Colour
One call to +1 (647) 370-5216 sets up a no-cost visit, Banbury-Don Mills through to Flemingdon Park. Your quote lists counts, materials, primer, coats and price in one place.
Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Most whole kitchens in Toronto run between $2,800 and $6,000. Condo galleys can start near $1,700, and large or two-tone kitchens can pass $10,000. Per door, the range is about $145 to $275. Your written quote after the free visit is the number that applies.
Yes. Since the doors are finished elsewhere and the boxes are coated where they hang, your kitchen keeps running during the cabinet painting. Dishes sit on open shelves for a few days, and the day the boxes are sprayed is the only awkward one.
It depends on the wood and its condition. Plain birch or mahogany slab doors usually look best with cabinet painting. Good walnut or teak veneer is often worth refinishing so the grain still shows. We tell you which one suits your kitchen at the visit.
A water-based enamel can be touched after a few hours and handled lightly after roughly seven days. It keeps hardening for about a month. A two-part polyurethane is hard within a day. Humid Toronto summers can add a day or two to the schedule.
A proper cabinet painting job holds up for years when the doors are degreased, primed for their material, sprayed in thin coats and given time to cure. Chipping on cabinet painting nearly always traces to grease left behind, wall-grade paint, or hard knocks before curing finished.
Free Estimate
About Your Kitchen
Birch, walnut, painted or not sure, jot it down and we will call to set a visit time. Your name and phone number are all it takes. Or talk to us now at +1 (647) 370-5216.
Thanks — your request has been received.
We will call within one business day to book your visit.
For anything urgent, call +1 (647) 370-5216.