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.
The condo and rental towers here sit mainly in Flemingdon Park, along Graydon Hall Drive, on Don Mills Road near the Shops at Don Mills and around York Mills Road. Most of those kitchens are melamine or factory white shaker rather than solid wood.
Before any cabinet painting begins, we book the service elevator, arrange wall pads and a loading space, and send the property manager our insurance papers. Most buildings ask for several days of notice.
Many buildings only permit trades during fixed weekday hours. Marathon days are off the table, so removing the doors first thing on day one keeps things moving. None of this is hard, but a job that ignores it can lose a day waiting for an elevator.
A condo has no second kitchen, so the cabinet painting plan keeps this one running. Doors and drawer faces are labelled and carried out to our booth, so most of the labour happens elsewhere.
Frames and boxes get their coats inside a plastic enclosure while a fan exhausts the air. In a galley, that is a single day. Cooking and washing up carry on, and dishes rest on the exposed shelving.
A neighbour smelling paint in the hallway is how a property manager stops a job. Spraying the doors off site takes the strongest source of odour out of the building.
What stays in the unit is low-odour water-based coating on the boxes, with fans running and the unit door sealed. Done with this care, cabinet painting barely registers with the people next door. Most units have melamine, which calls for a bonding coat as described under painting melamine and thermofoil.
Many newer condo kitchens have glass-front upper doors or open shelves beside the range hood. Glass is masked on both sides before spraying, and the frames around it are sprayed with the same care as a solid door.
Each open shelf adds surface, so the cabinet painting quote lists shelving by itself. Painting the shelves with the cabinets makes a small kitchen look planned rather than patched.
In Toronto, cabinet painting a ten-to-fifteen-piece galley generally costs $1,700 to $3,000. That is the smallest whole-kitchen range there is. The piece count moves the price, not the address.
Owners here usually want a new shade rather than a fix, since the cabinets are sturdy but dated. Warm white, greige or a deeper shade on the base cabinets makes a big difference in a small room. The options are on the cabinet colour consultation page. With a cooperative building, an investor unit can be finished inside five working days.
Give us the address, your floor and an estimated door count, and we will coordinate with management. Both the visit and the cabinet painting quote are free of charge. Call +1 (647) 370-5216, share the unit details, or see all of our services.
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
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
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.
