Meadowvale kitchens we quote mostly end up in one of six shades: sage, greige, cream, warm white, charcoal or navy. A little paper chip under store lights cannot show how any of them behaves in your room, so one of your own doors gets sprayed in the shade you like and propped up in the kitchen before any cabinet painting goes on the calendar.
The light in a Meadowvale kitchen is nothing like store lighting. Many homes back onto parks, ravines or the paths around Lake Aquitaine and Lake Wabukayne, and the green outside the window shifts colours inside. Pot lights and under-cabinet strips shift them again.
A paint chip is printed paper. A sample door is your actual cabinet material with the actual sheen and sprayed finish, sitting where the daylight lands on it.
Your sample door rides to our booth, takes the primer and the same cabinet painting coats a full kitchen would get, and then returns to lean against your counter, floor tile and backsplash for several days. Give a colour at least that long before you say yes to it.
Two sample doors in two colours settle most arguments in a day. The cost is small next to repainting a kitchen in a colour that turned out wrong.
We can spray satin, semi-gloss or gloss enamel, and a single shade reads differently in each one. Satin softens the colour, masks small dents and suits a door with some age on it.
Semi-gloss bounces more light around and shrugs off fingerprints with one wipe, which suits a family that cooks every night. Full gloss magnifies every ripple and dent, so it rarely flatters a door from the 1970s or 1980s.
A sunny window can also change things. Some whites turn slightly creamier over their first twelve months in strong sun, and satin hides that change more easily than a shinier sheen does.
Owners of the older backsplits and bungalows lean toward warm white and pale greige, since those shades lift a room that sat under dark stain for decades. Sage green has become a strong second choice, especially in kitchens that look out onto a park or ravine.
In the larger Lisgar and Meadowvale Village kitchens, two-tone cabinet painting is common, with navy, charcoal or deep green on the island. We can show you sprayed samples of each before you decide.
Since the counter usually stays, it sets the rules. A speckled 1980s laminate looks off next to cool grey but sits happily beside cream, greige and sage.
Tile is the next thing to work around, and often the harder one. A bold colour or busy pattern cuts down the options quickly. The floor matters least, since the lower cabinets separate it from the rest.
If a new counter is coming anyway, choose it first and pick the cabinet colour second. Two colours give you more room to play, as our two-tone page shows.
Most 1970s Meadowvale kitchens start out dark, and most owners want them light. That switch needs a primer that both grips the old finish and blocks the stain, which is why oak and dark wood get shellac. Our oak page explains the reason.
Going the other way, from a pale cabinet to deep navy or forest green, means one more coat for even coverage. Both are normal requests. They just need to be on the quote.
Rich, dark colours also cost a little more, because heavily tinted enamel is priced higher by the can than white.
That should never push you into a colour you do not love. It simply means you should see the cabinet painting price for your colour before you commit.
Choose the shade at home, under your lights, with one of your own doors in front of you. There is no charge for the visit, for the written cabinet painting quote or for talking through colours. Phone +1 (289) 206-9922, list the shades you like, or head to our home page.
Backsplit bathrooms, laundry rooms, mudroom lockers and rec room bars get the coatings we trust in kitchens.
We take your doors and drawer fronts down, clean off the grease, sand them, prime them for their material and spray a hard enamel before hanging them again. Kitchen cabinet painting recolours the entire room while your counters, tile and sink stay untouched.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Dark stain, slab doors with routed grooves and printed wood-grain fronts all accept new colour once the grease and old gloss are gone. On a kitchen this age, cabinet painting is mostly careful prep, and that prep decides how long the finish lasts.
See 70s and 80s Kitchens
Oak brings two problems to the job that maple and MDF do not. Tannin in the wood stains through water-based primer, and deep grain lines show through cabinet painting unless they are filled flat first.
See Oak Cabinets
Some cabinets have wood that deserves to be seen. Refinishing takes the worn finish off, evens out the colour with new stain and seals it with a sprayed clear coat, so the grain stays in view instead of disappearing under paint.
See Refinishing
Spraying puts the coating on as a fine mist that levels itself before it dries, so there are no brush lines left behind. With a sprayer, cabinet painting comes out looking like it left a factory, not a hobby bench.
See Spray Painting
Melamine, laminate and thermofoil are slick by design, so cabinet painting on them depends on a bonding primer built to grip plastic surfaces. Sound doors finish beautifully, while vinyl already curling away from its board is past saving.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
With refacing, fresh doors and drawer fronts are hung on your current cabinet boxes and the frames are finished to suit. If just one door is ruined, we swap that one out and spray it with the others during cabinet painting so nobody can tell.
See Refacing and New Doors
Soft white or greige on top with sage, navy or charcoal below is the combination we are asked about most, and the island usually gets the darker shade. Painting an island by itself also counts as a full cabinet painting job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
A single vanity needs a day or two of our time, which makes it the least disruptive cabinet painting job we offer. Its doors travel to our booth, we spray the base where it sits, and the bathroom is ready again soon after.
See Bathroom Vanities
Most condo kitchens hold between ten and twenty doors, which means the spraying is quick once building approvals are in place. Cabinet painting in a condo townhouse or apartment runs smoothly only when parking, work hours and smell are planned ahead.
See Condo Kitchens
Laundry uppers, pantry cupboards, bench-and-locker units by the garage door, bookcases and fireplace built-ins all go through the primer and sprayed enamel your kitchen gets. Because nearly all of them are attached to the house, cabinet painting for these rooms happens on site behind plastic.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Leftover knob holes get plugged and filled flush, and every new pull is bored through a jig so the whole row sits straight. Tired hinges get replaced during the same window, since cabinet painting already has the doors off.
See Hardware and HingesWe drop by, count doors and drawers, check the wood or board underneath and spell out the work in a written quote. No charge for any of it.
Jot down anything you know about the cupboards, and we will call to choose a day. A name and a number are all it takes. Want to talk right now? Call +1 (289) 206-9922.
