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.
The job happens in two spots. Doors and drawer fronts ride to our booth, where filtered air, steady heat and a clean room let the coating settle smooth. Face frames and boxes stay screwed to your wall and get sprayed on site behind taped sheeting, and both halves get matching primer, enamel and coat counts.
Brushing drags the coating and leaves small ridges that never quite flatten. They show along every rail and profile, and the pot lights over an island make them stand out even more.
Sprayed cabinet painting goes on as several whisper-thin layers, with a quick scuff between them. The final film is thinner and more even than any brush can lay down. A thin, hard film also chips less than a thick, soft one, especially on corners.
Look at the handles on a brushed kitchen after two years. The paint around them is often worn through. A properly sprayed and cured finish in the same spot still looks new.
Everyone sees the doors, so they get the best treatment. Inside the booth, no grit settles into the wet coat, the heat holds even, and each door cures lying flat on a rack. A kitchen table simply cannot match that.
The boxes cannot leave, so we build a temporary booth around them. Plastic goes up from floor to ceiling, drop cloths line our path, fans exhaust the air outdoors, and doorways to other rooms are taped shut. The overspray stays inside.
Many Meadowvale backsplits have a kitchen that looks over a half-wall to the living room or up a few steps to the bedrooms. We seal those openings first, because fine spray drifts up stairs. Townhouse jobs with shared walls are covered on our condo cabinet page.
We rely on two coatings. Waterborne alkyd enamel flows smooth, can be tinted to almost any colour and has little smell. It needs about sixteen hours between coats, around a week before light use and close to a month to fully harden.
The second product, a two-part polyurethane, has its hardener blended in just before spraying. A chemical reaction sets it, it reaches full strength in roughly a day, and it is the most durable finish in our cabinet painting lineup. Mixed material has a short working life, so we blend only what the kitchen needs.
Primer is chosen to match the surface underneath. Oak and dark stain get shellac. Melamine, laminate and tight thermofoil get a bonding primer. Bare maple, poplar and doors painted before get a general bonding primer. For shiny factory doors, see our melamine and thermofoil page.
Waterborne coatings harden as the water in them leaves. When the air is already damp, that takes longer. Mississauga summers can stay sticky for days, and a house with the windows open holds on to that moisture.
The booth looks after the doors. It is the boxes at home that slow down, so in humid weather we add a day instead of putting a new coat over a damp one. Rushed cabinet painting in muggy air stays soft and shows fingerprints for months. We would rather tell you about the extra day at the start.
Spray shows anything left in its path. Before cabinet painting starts, we ask you to empty the cabinets we are painting, clear the counters and move breakable items to another room.
We handle everything after that. Floors, counters, appliances, windows and doorways are wrapped before we spray, and every sheet comes down when we finish.
Your quote names the coating, why we picked it, the number of coats and the sheen. We visit, count the pieces and write it all up for free. Phone +1 (289) 206-9922 or pick a time here. The full kitchen cabinet painting process has its own page, and our home page lists the rest.
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
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 Hinges
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.
See Colour ConsultationWe 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.
