Cabinet Painting Questions From Brampton Homeowners

For 2026, Ontario market figures place whole-kitchen cabinet painting between $2,500 and $5,500 most of the time. A small kitchen or a condo galley opens near $1,500. Large or two-colour work climbs to $6,000 through $9,000 and past that, while one door alone runs about $130 to $250. Figures like those describe a market rather than a price list. The figure that applies to your own kitchen arrives in the written quote after a free visit.

Not by default. Interiors are usually melamine in decent shape, and cabinet painting them adds significant labour to a surface that stays shut. Anyone who wants them gets them priced separately, and they are worth doing where there is glass-front or open shelving.

Yes, the company is fully insured, and proof of coverage is available before anything starts. Notes explaining the cure period stay behind when the work is done.

Yes, and the cabinet painting is quoted as one project. Both kitchens are counted piece by piece, the combined price comes in below two separate bookings, and the schedule is set so one kitchen is always working while the other has its doors off. Basement kitchens are usually melamine or laminate, so cabinet painting there needs a bonding primer.

A four-bedroom or five-bedroom house with an island, tall uppers and a pantry usually runs between forty and sixty pieces, and a basement kitchen adds fifteen to twenty more. We count them at the visit rather than estimating from floor area, because the count is what sets the cabinet painting price.

Cabinet painting is not shortened by cooking if the grease was removed properly first. Oil-based cooking puts a film on the doors beside the range that an ordinary cleaner spreads instead of lifting, so those doors meet a degreaser strong enough to lift it, followed by the correct primer. After that, cabinet painting in a 2K polyurethane or a hard alkyd enamel stands up to daily wiping for years.

Cabinet painting thirty or forty doors indoors would put atomized coating through a room people cook and eat in. In a booth the doors lie flat, the air is filtered, the temperature is steady and the film levels properly. Only the boxes stay behind, and their cabinet painting happens inside sealed plastic with a filtered fan running.

Everything comes off before the cabinet painting starts and goes into bags labelled by cabinet. Old handle holes take a hard filler, then a level sanding and primer. New holes are set out with a template once the cabinet painting film is hard. Worn hinges become soft-close ones at the same time, since every door is off anyway.

Cabinet painting is dry when the surface can be touched without marking, which takes hours. Cured means the film has arrived at full hardness, which takes about a month for a waterborne alkyd enamel and roughly a day for a 2K polyurethane. Doors go back on somewhere in between, once handling will not print them.

Cream and greige are the two cabinet painting colours that photograph well and appeal broadly. Bright cool white can read cold beside beige tile and brown counters, and a strong colour narrows the audience. Nobody can honestly promise what a kitchen returns at sale, so we make no such promise, though the work can be timed to cure ahead of a photographer.

Cabinet painting wants mild soap on a soft cloth, with nothing abrasive and no scouring pad. During the first month, wipe spills promptly, keep tea towels off the door fronts and avoid leaning anything against them. Once the film has hardened it takes normal kitchen cleaning without trouble.

Yes, and an already painted kitchen is the easiest of all for cabinet painting. A sound painted surface needs a scuff sand and a bonding primer rather than stripping, which takes less labour than the first job did. Doors that have chipped down to bare substrate get spot-primed before the new colour goes on.