Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Burlington, Ontario
Sprayed cabinet painting for Burlington kitchens: doors finished in a filtered booth, boxes coated in the house. The visit and the written quote are free.
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Thirty minutes in the kitchen settles the piece count, the substrate and the number.
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Burlington Cabinet Painting provides cabinet spray painting, kitchen cabinet painting, vanity painting, refinishing and refacing to homeowners across Burlington, Aldershot, Millcroft, Alton Village and Roseland. We carry full insurance on all of our work. Coming out to look at a kitchen costs nothing, the written quote afterward costs nothing, and that quote records the piece count, the prep required on each surface, the primer and enamel selected, the coats and the price.
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What Gets Painted
Nine cabinet painting services, from full kitchens and condo galleys to vanities and downsizing moves.
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Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Every door, drawer front, box and face frame degreased, filled, sanded, primed and sprayed in one run. Cabinet painting at this scale is quoted by the piece.
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Downsizing Cabinet Painting
Two kitchens, one closing date. Cabinet painting for the house being listed and the condo or townhome being moved into, quoted together and scheduled apart.
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Cabinet Spray Painting
Fronts are sprayed in a filtered booth, and boxes and frames are coated in the house. Sprayed cabinet painting dries to a level film with no brush ridges.
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Oak Cabinet Painting
Orange raised panels take two steps other wood skips: a shellac stain blocker against tannin, and a decision about the open grain. Cabinet painting on oak depends on both.
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Thermofoil, Melamine and Laminate Cabinet Painting
None of these three has wood on the surface. A waterborne bonding primer grips them when the face is intact, so cabinet painting depends on the bond.
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Cabinet Refinishing
Keeping the wood rather than covering it: the old coating comes off, fresh stain shifts the tone, and a sprayed clear coat locks it down. Priced beside cabinet painting.
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Two-Tone Kitchens and Island Painting
Two colours in one room, most often a pale perimeter above a darker base run or an island. Two-tone cabinet painting reads as designed rather than repainted.
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Bathroom Vanity Painting
A day or two on the smallest cabinet in the house. Steam and splashing drive the primer and topcoat, so vanity cabinet painting needs its full cure before wiping.
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Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Compact galley kitchens in towers, where elevator bookings and corridor odour limits shape the day. Fronts are sprayed at the shop, so condo cabinet painting keeps the unit livable.
Why Choose Burlington Cabinet Painting
Material named before price
What a door is made of decides the primer, so the substrate goes on the quote ahead of the price. Oak, maple veneer, melamine and thermofoil each need something different, and a figure that skips it is a guess.
Fronts numbered and photographed
Each door and drawer front is numbered to its own opening, the hinges are bagged beside it, and the layout is photographed before anything is unscrewed. Boxes are coated in the house while the fronts are at the shop.
Quoted from a real visit
Nothing is priced from a phone description. The visit takes about half an hour and produces a number you can lay beside anyone else's. We also say plainly when cabinets call for something other than cabinet painting.
A sprayed finish, not a brushed one
Thin sprayed passes of waterborne alkyd or two-component polyurethane level out flat, with none of the ridges a brush leaves. The doors read as factory work, even under pot lights.
Golden Oak Raised Panels Outnumber Every Other Cabinet Painting Job Here
Oak accounts for more cabinet painting here than every other material put together, and it asks for two extra steps. Tannin in the wood bleeds brown or pink through waterborne primer, so a shellac-based stain blocker seals it before any colour goes near it.
After that the open pores are either filled level with several coats of grain filler or deliberately left to read through the finish. Millcroft, Tyandaga and Brant Hills kitchens from the late 1980s regularly hold thirty-five to forty-five oak pieces, which is why the count matters so much to the price. Our oak cabinet painting page explains when grain fill earns its cost.
Downsizing Usually Means Cabinet Painting In Two Kitchens, Not One
The kitchen being sold and the kitchen being moved into both need cabinet painting, and they need it in a set order. One is painted to photograph well and stop buyers pricing the room down, and the other is painted while the unit is still empty of furniture.
Both dates are fixed by a lawyer rather than by weather, and the gap between them is often narrow. Adult children living somewhere else frequently arrange and pay for the work by phone, so the quote has to make sense to someone who has never stood in the room. Our downsizing cabinet painting page covers how those two jobs are sequenced.
Cabinet Painting Done With A Brush Shows Marks Under Kitchen Lighting
The spray gun is what divides cabinet painting from ordinary interior work. Primer and enamel leave the gun as a fine mist and land in thin passes, with a light scuff between them, so the film that dries is level rather than ridged.
Doors and fronts go into a filtered booth where dust, heat and humidity are all held steady, while the boxes take their coats in the kitchen behind containment. Both waterborne alkyd enamel and two-component polyurethane atomise well, and which one goes on a cabinet painting job depends on the colour, the sheen and how quickly the kitchen has to be back in service. The cabinet spray painting page compares the two systems.
What Cabinet Painting Costs In Burlington
Four things move a kitchen cabinet painting price: the piece count, the material, the colour change and extras such as an island. These are market ranges for Ontario.
These are ranges across the market, not a price list. The written quote after the free visit sets the real number, with primer, topcoat, coat count and extras on their own lines.
- Small kitchenA small galley with a simple colour change From about $1,500
- Condo galley kitchenEighteen to thirty pieces, quoted as a minimum job $1,800 to $2,800
- Whole kitchenThe band most of our quotes fall in $2,500 to $5,500
- Large or two-tone kitchenBig layouts with islands and many pieces $6,000 to $9,000 and up
- Second colourAdded inside a larger job $800 to $2,000
- Price per pieceDrawer fronts usually cost less than doors $130 to $250
What Happens During A Cabinet Painting Job
Visit and written quote
Every cabinet painting job opens with the visit. Doors, drawer fronts and boxes are counted, and the material and condition are checked. The written quote names the primer, the enamel, the coats and the total.
Removal, degreasing and labelling
The first working day is degreasing, numbering, removal and photographs. Cooking grease and furniture wax need a strong degreaser, since nothing sold in a can will bond to a greasy door.
Fill, sand and prime
Dents and old hardware holes are filled, and every face is sanded to a uniform dullness. Then the primer for that material goes on: shellac on oak, a bonding type on melamine, thermofoil and laminate.
Topcoats in two places
Fronts get two or three thin topcoats at the shop, sanded lightly between. The same coats go onto boxes and face frames inside the house behind plastic, with the adjoining rooms masked.
Rehang and walk-through
Each front returns to its own opening, and the hinges are tuned until the gaps run straight. Hardware is fitted, then we walk the room together. Hours make it dry and days make it hard, so go easy for a week or two.
Thermofoil Skins Lift Beside The Dishwasher Before They Lift Anywhere Else
A vinyl skin is peeled off its board by heat and steam, so the failure shows up first on the door beside the dishwasher or the one over the range. Paint cannot re-bond a skin that has started to lift, so a door already peeling gets stripped to bare board or replaced rather than coated.
Skins that are still tight everywhere take a waterborne bonding primer and hold colour for years. Melamine behaves much the same way and turns up constantly in Aldershot condo kitchens along Plains Road and in 2000s builds out in Alton Village. Read thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting before deciding which way to go.
Some Kitchens Are Worth Refinishing As Wood Instead Of Cabinet Painting
Walnut, cherry and white oak with veneer still intact usually look better refinished than covered. The old coating is sanded or stripped off, fresh stain shifts the tone if the tone needs shifting, and a sprayed clear coat locks it in.
That choice comes up often in the 1960s and 1970s bungalows around Shoreacres and Roseland, where the original birch and walnut is denser than anything at the same price now. The cabinet refinishing page explains where the wood wins the argument and where cabinet painting does.
Cabinet Painting A Whole Kitchen Takes Days On Site And Weeks To Harden
Most kitchens have us in the house two or three days, and the whole thing closes out in one to two weeks once the fronts have had their turn at the shop. Degreasing, numbering and removal fill that first day, and nothing gets colour on it.
Cabinet painting in this market starts near $1,500 for a small galley and climbs past $6,000 on a big two-tone layout, with $2,500 to $5,500 covering most of what we quote. Those are market ranges rather than your figure, and the written quote carries the number that applies here. Kitchen cabinet painting walks the full sequence through.
Two Colours In One Room Is Now The Most Common Cabinet Painting Request
Lower cabinets in navy, green or charcoal under a painted perimeter is the pattern almost everybody asks about first. It costs more than one colour because it is a second setup, a second masking stage and a second cure, not because the paint costs more.
Islands also get cabinet painting by themselves, usually inside two working days, with the surrounding kitchen left exactly as it stands. The two-tone kitchens and island painting page gives the usual upcharge.
Condo Buildings Impose Cabinet Painting Rules That A House Never Does
Booking the service elevator, holding a loading spot and keeping odour out of a shared corridor count for as much in a tower as the cabinet painting schedule itself. Sending the fronts out to the booth on the first morning is what makes that workable, because the spraying happens somewhere else entirely.
Downtown towers near Brant Street and the newer buildings along Fairview Street are full of compact galley layouts in melamine or factory-sprayed white shaker, where the job is a colour change rather than an age problem. Condo kitchen cabinet painting covers the building paperwork side of it.
Vanities Are The Smallest Cabinet Painting Jobs We Quote
Cabinet painting a vanity takes a day, occasionally two. Morning steam hits that cabinet every single day, which drives the choice of primer and topcoat, and the finish is left to harden properly before anyone wipes it.
Most people add the vanity onto a kitchen booking because the containment and the equipment are already in the house. Older Longmoor and Pinedale bathrooms usually hold an oak vanity that came from the same decade as the kitchen. Bathroom vanity painting has the detail.
Finished Kitchens
Sprayed finishes in sage, charcoal, navy and warm white on real Ontario cabinetry.
How Other Cabinet Painting Crews Handle Burlington
Other Crews Serving Nearby Communities
Property owners near Burlington sometimes compare notes with crews working the Guelph market — professional cabinet painters in Guelph takes a similar approach to color consultations and cabinet prep, which is a useful reference point when you're deciding what finish to ask for.
Property owners near Burlington sometimes compare notes with crews working the Oakville market — cabinet painting contractors in Oakville takes a similar approach to color consultations and cabinet prep, which is a useful reference point when you're deciding what finish to ask for.
Peterborough cabinet painting specialists is one of the crews we'd point to if you're weighing options in Peterborough — the core steps of protecting the space, prepping every door and drawer front, and choosing a finish built for daily use are consistent with how we approach a project here in Burlington.
Richmond Hill homeowners researching cabinet refinishing often turn up cabinet painting in Richmond Hill, and it's worth a look: the same emphasis on a dust-controlled workspace and a factory-style topcoat applies whether the kitchen is in Richmond Hill or Burlington.
kitchen cabinet painters in Cambridge is one of the crews we'd point to if you're weighing options in Cambridge — the core steps of protecting the space, prepping every door and drawer front, and choosing a finish built for daily use are consistent with how we approach a project here in Burlington.
Request an Estimate, see our full service list, or read how we coordinate with insulation and other trades on a bigger renovation.
Cabinet Painting Questions
What does kitchen cabinet painting cost in Burlington?
Most whole kitchens come in between $2,500 and $5,500. A small galley opens near $1,500. Large kitchens and two-tone layouts carry $6,000 to $9,000 and more. Per piece the Ontario market sits roughly between $130 and $250. The figure on your written quote is the one that actually applies.
Can the family stay in the house while the cabinets are painted?
Yes, and almost everyone does. Cabinet painting is organised around that. Sealed containment goes up and the boxes are coated inside it while the fronts sit in the booth, which leaves the sink and the range usable and turns the open shelves into temporary storage.
How soon can the cabinets be used normally again?
Dry and cured are two different milestones. Waterborne alkyd enamel feels dry within hours, takes roughly seven days before ordinary use and needs close to thirty to finish hardening. Two-component polyurethane gets all the way there in about twenty-four hours.
Does the oak grain disappear once the doors are painted?
Only if the quote includes grain fill. Two or three coats of filler with a sand between them leave the door reading like new flat-panel cabinetry. Skipping the filler leaves the pores showing through the colour, which suits a Roseland period house better than a smooth film does.
Do painted cabinets chip around the handles and the cutlery drawer?
Those two spots are where any finish is tested hardest. Chipping comes from thin brittle film, soft paint put into service before it cured, or wall paint used on cabinets in the first place. A sprayed cabinet painting finish over the right primer, left alone through its full cure, holds up for years.
Serving Burlington, Aldershot, Millcroft And The Neighbourhoods In Between
Cabinet painting takes us south to Roseland and Shoreacres near the lake, west into Aldershot and Tyandaga, north through Brant Hills and Kilbride, and east across Millcroft, the Orchard and Alton Village. Guelph Line, Walkers Line, Appleby Line and Burloak Drive are the lines we run up and down all week. Anything inside Burlington is inside our cabinet painting route, whether it is a downtown apartment near Brant Street or an estate kitchen on a rural lot past No. 1 Side Road. Send us the address and we will confirm a time for the visit.
- Burlington
- Aldershot
- Tyandaga
- Brant Hills
- Millcroft
- Orchard
- Alton Village
- Roseland
- Shoreacres
- Kilbride
Talk to us about your cabinets
Call +1 (289) 206-6890 or use the form near the top of this page. The visit and the written quote are free.