The whole kitchen in one run: every door, drawer front, box and face frame degreased, filled, sanded, primed for its own substrate and sprayed. Cabinet painting at this scale is quoted by the piece and written down before a tool comes out.
Kitchens around here run from an eighteen-piece galley downtown to a forty-five-piece layout in Millcroft with an island and a butler's pantry, and that count moves the price more than anything else does. Half an hour in the room settles the material, the condition and the door style. Oak kitchens carry two extra steps, which the oak cabinet painting page covers on its own.
What A Cabinet Painting Quote Puts In Writing Before Any Work Starts
The piece count comes first, because everything else is priced against it. Doors and drawer fronts are counted separately from boxes, and the quote says which of them are solid wood, which are veneer and which are melamine or thermofoil.
Under that sits the prep: what gets filled, what gets plugged, what gets caulked and how far the sanding goes. Then the primer named by substrate, the sheen, the topcoat, how many passes it gets and the reinstallation. Anything quoted separately from the main cabinet painting figure is listed separately, which normally means shelf interiors, crown moulding, glass-panel doors and supplied hardware.
Degreasing And Labelling Fill The Whole First Day Of Cabinet Painting
No colour goes on anything on day one. Every front comes off, every front receives a number tied to its own opening, hinges are bagged and marked, and the layout is photographed so nothing has to be guessed at during reinstallation.
Then the cleaning. Cooking grease and decades of furniture wax sit on the rails and stiles of any well-used kitchen, and a waterborne cleaner will not lift wax at all. Heavily waxed cabinet painting jobs need a solvent degreaser and more time, which is why that shows up on the quote instead of appearing later as a surprise.
Cabinet Painting Prices Track The Piece Count Rather Than The Room Size
Per piece, the Ontario market sits roughly between $130 and $250 for cabinet painting, with drawer fronts usually costing less than doors. Small kitchens open near $1,500, the bulk of whole kitchens fall in the $2,500 to $5,500 band, and big or two-tone layouts carry $6,000 to $9,000 and above.
Deep colours need a third coat. Bonding primer on laminate adds to the total, grain fill on oak adds to it again, and an island done in a second colour becomes its own line, which the two-tone kitchens and island painting page prices out. All of that is market range rather than a figure for one kitchen. What applies is the written quote that comes after the visit.
A Sprayed Kitchen Is Dry In Hours And Not Hard For Weeks
We are in the house two to three days on most jobs, and the calendar from start to finish covers one to two weeks, shop time on the fronts included. The kitchen keeps working throughout, with open shelves standing in while the doors are away.
Waterborne alkyd enamel feels dry inside a few hours, handles ordinary use around the seven-day mark and finishes hardening near day thirty. Two-component polyurethane arrives at the same place in about twenty-four hours. Either way, gentle use through the first couple of weeks is what makes cabinet painting last a decade instead of a season.
Fixed Cabinetry Takes Cabinet Painting On Site Behind Sealed Containment
Nothing bolted to a wall can go to a booth, so the room becomes the booth. Plastic is sealed to the ceiling and the floor, extraction runs to a window, floors and adjacent rooms are masked, and the spraying happens inside that envelope.
Removable doors still travel. On a pantry or a laundry run the fronts go to the shop for cabinet painting while the carcass and the face frame are coated in place, which is the same split a kitchen uses.
New Pulls Rarely Match The Spacing Of The Old Ones
Knobs use one hole and bar pulls use two, so the spacing changes the moment the style changes. The old holes are plugged with dowel and wood filler, sanded level, and sealed before primer, which is why they disappear completely under cabinet painting instead of showing as dimples later.
Drilling comes off a jig rather than a pencil mark. Every pull on a run of base cabinets then sits at the same height and the same distance in from the edge, which is the difference people notice without knowing what they are looking at.
Booking Cabinet Painting For A Kitchen Anywhere In Burlington
Call +1 (289) 206-6890 and we will set a time to count the kitchen. Neither the visit nor the written quote afterward carries a charge, and the quote is yours to set against anyone else's. Use the contact form if a written message suits better, and the home page lists every other cabinet painting service we run in Burlington.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
How long does kitchen cabinet painting take?
We are in the house two to three days on most jobs. The whole calendar runs one to two weeks, because the fronts spend time at the shop. The kitchen keeps working throughout, with open shelves standing in while the doors are away.
What does the written quote include?
The piece count, the material of each surface, the prep, the primer by name, the sheen, the topcoat, the coat count and reinstallation. Shelf interiors, crown moulding, glass-panel doors and supplied hardware are listed separately, so nothing appears later as a surprise.
What if the cabinets are greasy?
Cooking grease and furniture wax sit on every well-used kitchen. A waterborne cleaner will not lift wax, so heavily waxed doors get a solvent degreaser and more time. That shows up on the quote instead of appearing later.