Cabinet spray painting runs the doors and drawer fronts through an off-site filtered booth and the boxes through sealed containment in the kitchen, the only cabinet painting method that produces a factory-smooth surface.
Kingston's humid summers and dry, forced-air winters are hard on any finish, and brushed cabinet painting shows it first. Sprayed coats are thinner, cure harder and move with the wood. From the century homes of Sydenham Ward to the new builds in Riverview, every kitchen we do gets the same sprayed process, and kitchen cabinet painting lays out the full job.
A brushed door carries brush marks, sags where the profile changes direction and a film thick enough to chip at the corners. A rolled door carries stipple. A sprayed door carries a thin, even film that levels out on its own and looks like it came from a factory. Cabinet spray painting is more work to set up, which is why it costs more than brushing, and it is the reason a sprayed kitchen lasts many years longer than a brushed one.
Thin coats are the point of cabinet painting with a sprayer. Two or three thin coats from the gun, with a light sanding before each new one, cure into a hard, flexible film. One thick coat, however it is applied, stays soft inside for weeks and never cures as hard.
Each door and drawer front gets labelled, photographed, degreased and sanded, then goes to the booth. The booth is filtered so dust does not land in wet paint, ventilated so the finish flashes off evenly, and heated so the temperature and humidity are right for the product. Doors are sprayed lying flat and on racks, with the backs done first and the fronts last. They stay in the booth for five to seven days before coming home to be hung and aligned. Booth time is what makes cabinet painting look factory-made.
The boxes stay on the wall and get sprayed there. The floor, counters, backsplash, appliances and every doorway are masked with plastic and tape, a fan exhausts the room, and primer and colour go onto the boxes in the same thin passes the doors get. On-site cabinet painting done this way leaves no overspray on the counters. The plastic is off the same evening. The same method covers a pantry or a wall unit, and the pantry and built-in page explains how a room is sealed for it.
Two product families do nearly all of our cabinet painting. Waterborne alkyd enamels are low-VOC, level well, come in any colour, and are ready for normal use after about seven days and fully hard after about thirty. A 2K polyurethane gets its hardener stirred in minutes before spraying; it cannot be brushed, it cures within about a day, and its wear and chemical resistance beat anything else we use. The quote names which family is going on and why. Neither is a wall paint, and wall paint on a cabinet is the most common failure we are asked to fix.
If a smooth, hard finish is the goal, sprayed cabinet painting is the way to get it, and the visit to price it is free. Send the form or call +1 (613) 706-5129. The Kingston Cabinet Painting home page covers every cabinet in the house that the sprayer can reach.
Whatever else in the house has doors and drawers gets prepped, primed and sprayed the same way.
Fronts leave for a booth; boxes are coated where they stand, behind containment. What returns looks factory finished, wears a new colour, and costs a fraction of replacement. Kitchen cabinet painting is how a tired kitchen gets there.
See Kitchen Cabinets
A pre-sale refresh is a painted kitchen scheduled around a listing date, in a neutral colour that photographs well, with the vanity and hardware handled in the same visit so the house is camera-ready in two to three weeks.
See Pre-Sale Refresh
Oak cabinet painting seals golden oak's tannin with a shellac primer, then fills the open grain or leaves it on show, and finishes doors and boxes in a sprayed modern colour so a 1990s kitchen looks built this year.
See Oak Cabinets
Two-tone work gives the island, or the whole lower run, a deep colour like navy, green or charcoal while the perimeter stays light, and an island by itself can be done as a small stand-alone job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Melamine, laminate and thermofoil doors are slick from the factory, so their cabinet painting starts with a bonding primer and finishes with hard sprayed enamel, and it holds on any door whose surface is still tight to the board.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
In a condo galley or L-shape the fronts leave for spraying and the boxes take a single contained day indoors. The unit stays usable, and cabinet painting works around the building's rules on elevators and parking.
See Condo Kitchens
Refinishing suits good hardwood that should stay on show: stripping or sanding removes the old finish, stain follows if the colour is changing, and the grain is sealed under a sprayed clear topcoat.
See Refinishing
When the boxes are sound but the doors are not, refacing fits a full set of new doors and drawer fronts, or replaces just the few past saving, and old and new get painted together so nothing looks different.
See Refacing and New Doors
A vanity is a small piece that lives in steam and splashes, so it gets the kitchen treatment of degreasing, priming and sprayed enamel, is finished inside two days, and is often booked with a kitchen.
See Bathroom Vanities
Hardware work covers filling the old handle holes, drilling fresh ones with a jig after the paint has cured, swapping slamming hinges for soft-close, and fitting knobs or pulls in brass, black or nickel.
See Hardware and Hinges
Pantries, laundry runs, mudroom lockers, bookcases, wall units and mantels are fixed in place, so their cabinet painting is done on site inside sealed containment, using the same products a kitchen gets.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
A colour consultation narrows the shortlist to two or three colours, sprays a full sample door in each, and checks them under the kitchen's real light so the finished result matches the choice.
See Colour ConsultationA visit to the house, a door count and a written quote, with no fee and nothing owed if the answer is no.
Tell us what you can about the kitchen, and we phone to arrange the visit. Sending the form takes nothing more than a name and a number. If talking is easier, the number to dial is +1 (613) 706-5129.
