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.
Kingston's condos run from the converted limestone buildings downtown to the towers near Queen's and the newer blocks along the waterfront and Princess Street. Most have ten to fifteen doors, melamine or thermofoil fronts, and a board with rules about contractors. The thermofoil and melamine page covers the materials in most of them.
A galley of ten to fifteen fronts in a condo sits in the smallest cabinet painting bracket. Ontario market ranges put a condo galley at roughly $1,500 to $2,800, and per door at about $130 to $250. Those are market figures. Our written quote counts the real fronts, names the primer and topcoat, and gives one number.
Elevator bookings, loading-dock hours, parking permits and quiet hours are all part of a condo job, and we deal with them before the first day. One short visit takes the doors and fronts down and off to the spray booth, so the noisy and smelly part of the work happens away from the building. A single day inside sealed plastic finishes the boxes, with the range hood or a window fan pulling air out, and the plastic is gone by evening.
Most boards ask for proof of insurance. The work is insured, so the paperwork is easy to provide. If the building requires a contractor form or a deposit, we fill it out.
A condo kitchen is the only kitchen in the unit, so the sink and the appliances keep working throughout. The open boxes hold the dishes for the week the doors spend in the booth. Nobody moves out and nothing goes into storage. Once the doors return, hanging and adjusting takes an afternoon, and the hardware goes on the same day.
Most Kingston condo kitchens are white or almond melamine with a plain slab door. A bonding primer is the only way paint holds on melamine, and thin sprayed coats of enamel over it wear well. Warm white and greige are the colours most owners choose for a small kitchen because they keep the room feeling larger. A colour change from white to navy on the lowers works in a galley with a window, and the two-tone and island page covers the pairing.
A condo kitchen is a quick job and the visit to price it is free. Send the form or call +1 (613) 706-5129 with the name of the building and how many doors there are. The Kingston Cabinet Painting home page covers the rest of our cabinet painting work, from houses to built-ins.
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
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.
See Spray Painting
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
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.
