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.
The single-door version is the one we get asked about most. A bottom rail swollen by a leaking sink, a door that came apart next to the dishwasher or a panel split down the middle is a problem with one door. Treating it as a reason for a new kitchen wastes a lot of money.
The boxes answer the first question. Square, dry and firmly attached boxes are healthy, and keeping the current doors with cabinet painting nearly always gives the best value.
The doors answer the rest. Lifted thermofoil, veneer that was sanded through, particleboard swollen from a leak and doors with a cracked panel cannot be saved by paint. Two or three of those means replacing a few doors. Most of the kitchen means a refacing talk.
Layout is the third question. A layout that suits you can stay, with refacing or cabinet painting. If the floor plan works against the way you cook, only a larger remodel fixes it, and we will say so.
Across Toronto, cabinet painting a full kitchen typically lands between $2,800 and $6,000. Refacing with new doors on the boxes you own usually runs $3,500 to $11,000, depending on the door material and the piece count.
Full replacement starts around $17,000 and can pass $45,000. A lone replacement door is usually a few hundred dollars, and sprayed in the same cabinet painting batch as its neighbours, it disappears. These are market ranges. Your own quote sets the real price.
Painting only a new door leaves it looking different from its sixty-year-old neighbours. The whole run goes through cabinet painting at once, with the same primer, enamel and number of coats on the same day.
Door shape counts every bit as much as the paint colour. A flat slab door from a 1950s Don Mills kitchen is easy to copy. An arched oak door from the 1980s is much harder to copy, and a plain shaker door dropped into a raised-panel run stands out. When a perfect copy is not possible, you hear that from us before an order goes in.
The plywood boxes in original Don Mills and Parkwoods kitchens are often better built than new ones. Solid backs, real frames and sturdy joints have carried them for some seventy years. Pulling them out to install particleboard is a poor trade.
That is why cabinet painting and door replacement often go together. A few new doors fill the gaps, and the old boxes and frames get the same sprayed finish. The kitchen ends up looking new while keeping the solid build that came with the house. In most original Don Mills kitchens, that mix gives the best cabinet painting result for the money.
Hinges are the practical detail. Original wrap hinges are often out of production, so replacement doors usually get bored for concealed cup hinges. See hinges and hardware for that step, and mid-century cabinet work for why the old boxes deserve to stay.
Nobody should order new doors before someone checks whether the boxes are worth it. Our visit checks each box for square and moisture, notes the door material, counts the doors cabinet painting cannot rescue and prices each route in writing. Call +1 (647) 370-5216, book a visit, or read what else we do.
Wall units, vanities, laundry rooms, mudroom lockers and pantries in Don Mills bungalows get a kitchen-grade primer and spray.
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
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 ConsultationWe come to the house, count every opening, check the material and set out the scope on paper. The visit and quote cost nothing.
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.
