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.
The open-plan kitchens in Westbrook, Woodhaven and Greenwood Park almost all have an island, and so do the renovated kitchens in Reddendale and along Front Road. Island cabinet painting is the cheapest way to make one of those kitchens look designed rather than delivered. When the whole kitchen is changing colour, kitchen cabinet painting covers the full job and the island is priced as a line inside it.
A deep colour on the island reads as furniture, and it works because the uppers and the perimeter lowers stay in a warm white or a pale greige that carries the light. Navy is the most requested island colour in Kingston, followed by forest green, sage and charcoal. Black works in a kitchen with plenty of window. A wood-tone island, either kept in its original stain or refinished, against painted white perimeter cabinets is the other pairing, and cabinet refinishing covers that side of it.
Deep cabinet painting colours need an extra coat of enamel or a tinted primer to reach full depth, and the quote says so. A sample door in the island colour, held next to a sample door in the perimeter colour, settles the pairing before anything is sprayed.
Two colours mean two sets of spray passes, two cleanouts of the equipment, and masking between the island and the perimeter on site. Ontario market ranges put the two-tone or island upcharge at roughly $800 to $2,000 on a whole-kitchen job, and a large two-tone kitchen lands anywhere from $6,000 to well past $9,000. Those numbers describe the market, not a quote. Our written quote separates the island so the cost of the second colour is plain.
Plenty of Kingston kitchens have perimeter cabinets in good white or cream paint and an island in the same colour that has never looked right. Cabinet painting for the island alone takes two to four days, with the six to ten fronts in the booth and the island box sprayed on site behind a small containment. It is the smallest whole-piece job we take and one of the most common.
The island box takes the most wear in the kitchen, from stools, hips and shoes, so it gets the harder of our two product families whenever the colour allows. Chipping at the island end panels is the first thing to show on a brushed island, and thin sprayed coats of 2K polyurethane are the answer.
The other two-tone layout puts the lowers in the deep colour and the uppers in the light one, with no island at all. It suits the galley kitchens of Calvin Park and Kingscourt where there is no room for an island, and it prices out close to single-colour cabinet painting with a second-colour line added. The rule is the same: dark low, light high, and the two colours from the same paint deck so the undertones agree. Warm white over sage, greige over navy and cream over charcoal are the pairings we see most.
An island or a two-tone kitchen gets priced on the same free visit as every other cabinet painting job. Use the form or call +1 (613) 706-5129 with the island's door count. The Kingston Cabinet Painting home page covers the rest of the kitchen and the rest of the house.
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
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.
