Pantries, laundry cupboards, mudroom lockers and fitted units receive the primer and topcoat a kitchen would. These units are anchored, so we do the job where they stand, inside sealed sheeting.
Large custom homes in Willowdale carry a lot of this millwork: butler's pantries between kitchen and dining room, laundry rooms with full cabinet runs, office built-ins, family room wall units and basement bars.
Fitted units stay put, so our spray gear travels to them. The doors still come off when they can, but the cases, shelves and trim are sprayed on site with full masking and air extraction.
Floors, walls and nearby furniture are covered before we begin, and the room is cleaned when we finish.
Laundry rooms deal with steam from the dryer, wet clothes and detergent spills. Lockers by the garage door absorb boots, backpacks and hockey equipment. They need a harder finish than a dining room hutch, so a catalysed topcoat is common in those rooms.
Lower edges get particular care, because slush and road salt tracked in each winter hit them hardest.
Most Willowdale custom homes follow a similar plan. A pantry wall or a walk-in pantry sits beside the kitchen. The laundry is on the second floor or by the side door. A mudroom with lockers leads in from the garage. There is often a wet bar in the basement and built-ins around the family room fireplace.
When the kitchen changes colour, all of these start to look out of place. That is when owners call us to add them to the cabinet painting job.
Setup, masking and travel are shared when several rooms are done together, so each cabinet costs less. Folding a pantry and laundry into kitchen cabinet painting almost always costs much less than two separate bookings.
Every room is priced separately, leaving the choice of what to include with you.
Basement wet bars in Willowdale homes often match the main kitchen, with a sink, a bar fridge and a run of upper and lower cabinets. Family room built-ins around a fireplace or TV wall usually match the kitchen as well.
Including these pieces in the same round of cabinet painting keeps one consistent colour from floor to floor. Removable fronts go to the booth, while fixed cases and shelving are coated where they stand.
Open shelving in built-ins takes extra time, because every shelf edge and back panel needs full coverage. Glass doors are masked carefully, and the wood frames are painted. Every fitted unit appears as a separate item in the cabinet painting quote.
Built-in wardrobes, closet systems and mudroom benches can all be painted with the same primer and topcoat. Many custom homes have painted closet systems in the primary bedroom that match the original kitchen finish.
We add these to the cabinet painting quote room by room. Open shelving and cubbies take longer than doors, so we count them separately. The finish is just as hard as the kitchen, which matters on a mudroom bench that takes daily wear.
We walk the house with you, count each room's doors and write a cabinet painting quote with every room listed. Call +1 (647) 370-5454, book the visit, or return to the Willowdale home page. For bathrooms, turn to bathroom vanity painting.
Condo vanities, pantry walls, laundry closets and custom built-ins are primed and topcoated with the kitchen system.
Each front is degreased, scuffed and primed according to its material, then sprayed with a durable topcoat and rehung. With kitchen cabinet painting the whole room gets a new colour, while stone, faucet and tile stay untouched.
See Kitchen Cabinets
The custom homes that replaced Willowdale's bungalows hold some of the largest kitchens in Toronto, often with 50 or more doors in lacquer, polyester or painted MDF. Cabinet painting refreshes those kitchens for a fraction of what new custom millwork costs.
See Infill Homes
Before oak takes colour, it needs a tannin-sealing primer and a firm decision on what happens to its open pores. Handled in that sequence, oak cabinet painting ends up even, smooth and free of brown bleed.
See Oak Cabinets
Certain wood kitchens deserve restoring rather than covering, so refinishing removes the tired finish, shifts the stain tone where needed, and protects the timber with a sprayed clear coat. When the timber is handsome enough to keep on view, it replaces paint altogether.
See Refinishing
Spraying lays primer and topcoat down in thin, even coats that level out smooth, with no roller texture and no brush lines. Cabinet painting done this way looks close to a factory finish and lasts longer at the handles.
See Spray Painting
Shiny factory finishes will accept colour, provided an adhesion primer goes first and the surface remains firmly stuck to its core. Before any thermofoil, melamine or laminate cabinet painting, we inspect each door one by one.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
New doors and drawer fronts can go onto the boxes you already have, sprayed in the same colour as the frames. Think of it as the step between cabinet painting and a complete tear-out.
See Refacing and New Doors
Two-tone means pale wall runs matched with a deeper island or deeper base cabinets, and no cabinet painting layout is asked for more often today. An island can also be painted alone to give an older kitchen a new focus.
See Two-Tone and Islands
No cabinet painting booking is smaller than a bathroom vanity, which most often wraps up within two days. Steam and splashing mean it needs a hard topcoat and a full cure before heavy cleaning.
See Bathroom Vanities
Condo kitchens are small, but building rules, elevator bookings and shared air make the planning bigger than the job. With condo kitchen cabinet work, fronts leave the unit, so daily life inside carries on.
See Condo Kitchens
Fresh handles and quiet-closing hinges complete a painted kitchen, and fitting them is easiest when the fronts are down anyway. Unused holes get plugged, new ones are bored off a jig, and hardware goes on after the cabinet painting has hardened.
See Hardware and Hinges
A full door finished in the shade and propped in your kitchen settles what a tiny chip never will. Cabinet painting colour consultation lets you judge true colour on your actual cabinetry, under your actual lighting, before deciding.
See Colour ConsultationA visit covers the door tally, the material check and a written scope. There is no fee for the visit or the quote.
List what you know about the cabinets, house or suite. We phone back to pick a time and need only a name and number. Or reach us directly at +1 (647) 370-5454.
