Don Mills Cabinet Painting keeps the cabinets you have and gives them new colour, a fresh clear coat or new doors. Every job we take on is fully insured. We work on kitchens, islands, bathroom vanities, pantry and laundry storage and fitted units, from original bungalows to 1960s family homes, recent rebuilds and condo suites in this corner of North York.
Cabinet painting falls somewhere between wall painting and furniture building. Handling it like a wall job is the usual mistake. Kitchen doors swing open and shut thousands of times each year. They need proper cleaning, a primer suited to the wood or board, light sprayed layers and a full cure before daily use. Our quotes are written around those steps.
A single total gives you no way to check the finished kitchen against what was promised. Every cabinet painting quote we write shows the counts for boxes, drawers and doors, plus substrate, primer, enamel, sheen, coats and exclusions.
Interiors, crown moulding, glass doors, hole filling, new drilling and supplied hardware are priced one by one. Should anything change mid-job, you see the new cost in writing first. Each type of job has its own page within our cabinet painting services.
We split cabinet painting between two sites, since doors and boxes need different settings. Labelled doors and drawer faces leave with their hinges bagged, heading to a booth with clean air and steady heat.
Mounted boxes and frames are sprayed in a sealed plastic room, fans push air outside, and adjoining spaces stay covered. Splitting the work this way lets a family keep cooking. The details sit under spraying cabinets.
Some kitchens are wrong for cabinet painting, and we say so rather than book the work. Lifting vinyl by the dishwasher, board puffed up from a leak and carcasses falling apart are beyond any coating.
Good walnut, teak or cherry is often best left as wood, as cabinet refinishing explains. Orange-toned builder oak from the 1990s nearly always improves with colour, as painting oak shows. What we suggest depends on the wood and the boxes, never on the invoice total.
If cabinet painting suits the room, we explain both what it will achieve and what it cannot cover. Deep dents, old repairs and gaps in the frames all show through a sprayed finish unless they are filled first. Each repair shows on the cabinet painting quote separately, leaving the choice to you.
Don Mills was built as a planned community from 1952 to the mid-1960s, and the houses fall into clear groups. The original bungalows, backsplits and semis in the four quadrants around Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East often have slab doors in birch or mahogany plywood, so cleaning and sanding take most of the time.
Much of Parkwoods dates from 1957 to 1962, and plenty of its kitchens got oak makeovers in the 1990s, which makes shellac and a grain choice the starting point there. Banbury-Don Mills holds larger homes from the mid-1960s and 1970s, plus new custom rebuilds. Apartment kitchens in Flemingdon Park and Graydon Hall lean toward melamine and thermofoil, so bonding coats and a check of the doors by the stove lead the work.
Each cabinet painting job begins with a count done in person, since a phone call cannot produce a reliable price. The visit and written price are free, with no obligation. Phone +1 (647) 370-5216, describe your cabinets, or go to our cabinet painting home page.
The services below are the whole business, each with a page of its own.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ConsultationBirch, 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.
