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.
Kingston's century homes in Sydenham Ward, Barriefield and Portsmouth Village hold plenty of built-in bookcases, china cabinets and mantels, while the newer houses in Westbrook and Woodhaven have walk-in pantries and mudroom cabinets that match the kitchen. Any of them can get cabinet painting alone or with the kitchen, and kitchen cabinet painting explains the shared process.
A bookcase or a wall unit is fixed to the wall, so it gets its finish in place. The room is cleared or covered, the floor, walls, windows and doorways are masked with plastic and tape, and a fan exhausts the room through a window. The piece gets degreased and sanded, then a primer suited to its material, and then the same thin sprayed passes a kitchen door gets, with sanding between. The plastic comes down once the final coat has flashed, usually the same day, and by the next morning the room is in use again. Cabinet spray painting explains the on-site setup.
Built-ins in a house from before 1980 may carry old layers of paint, and some of those layers can contain lead. We do not sand into old paint in a pre-1980 house without a test. If a test shows lead, the piece is cleaned and scuffed lightly with dust control rather than sanded back, and the primer and topcoat go over the sealed old layers. It adds a step and we explain that during the visit.
A walk-in pantry, a laundry-room cabinet run or a set of mudroom lockers usually matches the kitchen's builder melamine or maple, and painting it the same colour makes the house read as one. Pantry doors and fronts can ride along to the booth with the kitchen's doors. The pantry boxes and shelving are sprayed on site. Laundry cabinets get the harder of our two product families because detergent and damp are hard on paint.
A fireplace mantel, a window seat, wainscoting or a run of trim in the same room is sprayed in the same containment for a modest extra line on the quote, because the setup is already done. Wood mantels in cherry or walnut can be refinished instead of painted, and cabinet refinishing covers that choice.
Pantries, laundry runs and built-ins get priced on the same free visit as a kitchen, or by themselves. Send the form or phone +1 (613) 706-5129 and text over a photo of the piece. The Kingston Cabinet Painting home page covers the rest of our cabinet painting work.
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
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
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.
