Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Oshawa, Ontario
Doors and drawer fronts are sprayed flat in a filtered booth, and the boxes are finished on site behind sealed plastic. The free visit ends with a written quote.
Start With The Door Count
Count the doors and drawer fronts, take one photograph, and the rest is our job. Phone or send the form and we will find a time that suits the house.
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Oshawa Cabinet Painting provides kitchen cabinet painting, cabinet spray painting, refinishing, refacing and vanity painting to homeowners across Oshawa, Courtice, Bowmanville and Port Perry. Every job we take on is fully insured. The in-home visit costs nothing, and the written cabinet painting quote that follows lists the door and drawer count, the prep work, the primer and topcoat, the number of coats and the price. That written number is the one the job is done for.
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Nine Ways Cabinets Get Renewed
Each service below is quoted on its own line so nothing is bundled out of sight. Pick the one that matches the room you are looking at.
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Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Full kitchen cabinet painting with doors sprayed flat in a booth and boxes finished on site, quoted door by door in writing.
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Student Rental Cabinet Painting
Rental cabinet painting at a fixed price per unit, booked between tenancies and finished in a hard topcoat that survives heavy student use.
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Cabinet Spray Painting
Cabinet painting sprayed as an even film with no brush marks, using a filtered booth for doors and sealed containment on site for the boxes.
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Oak Cabinet Painting
Oak cabinet painting that seals tannin bleed with shellac primer and settles the open grain by filling it or leaving it, before any colour goes on.
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Thermofoil, Melamine and Laminate Cabinet Painting
Cabinet painting over melamine, laminate and sound thermofoil using a waterborne bonding primer, with honest advice when peeling doors need replacing instead.
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Cabinet Refinishing
Cabinet refinishing that strips the old clear coat, restains the wood and sprays new clear coats, for kitchens where the grain beats cabinet painting.
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Two-Tone Kitchens and Island Painting
Two-tone cabinet painting for kitchens and islands, with darker lower cabinets, pale uppers and sample doors sprayed so colour is judged in real light.
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Bathroom Vanity Painting
Bathroom vanity cabinet painting in one or two days, with a hard moisture-tolerant finish and a lower price when added to a kitchen job.
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Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Condo kitchen cabinet painting planned around elevator bookings and building rules, with doors sprayed off site and the dust kept out of the unit.
What Cabinet Painting Costs Across Ontario
These are market ranges, not a price for your house. Tearing a kitchen out and replacing it starts near $15,000 and climbs past $40,000.
The written quote sets the real price. Door count matters most, then the material, then extras such as grain filling, a second colour, interiors or new hinges.
- Small kitchen, 8 to 12 piecesFewer doors and a simple colour change From about $1,500
- Typical whole kitchenThe common band across Ontario $2,500 to $5,500
- Large kitchen, island or two-toneMore doors, more setup, deeper colours $6,000 to $9,000 and up
- Per door or drawer frontMarket range, set by size and material $130 to $250
- Second colour on a full kitchenSecond spray setup and separate masking $800 to $2,000 extra
- Refacing with new doorsNew doors and drawer fronts on existing boxes $3,000 to $10,000
What Are The Benefits Of Cabinet Painting Instead Of A New Kitchen?
Cabinet painting leaves boxes, layout, counters and backsplash untouched. Most kitchens land between $2,500 and $5,500 painted, against $15,000 and well past $40,000 for a tear-out and replacement.
Cabinet painting is measured in days rather than months. Nothing is demolished, no plumbing is moved, and the sink is back in use the same week.
Boxes built in the 1960s and 1970s are often plywood and solid framing, which is better material than a lot of what would replace them. Cabinet painting keeps that structure and changes only the surface.
Colour is not limited to what a supplier has in stock. Any shade on a paint deck can be sprayed, including the warm whites, greiges, sage greens and navies that are being asked for most.
Sprayed cabinet painting leaves a hard film that takes soap and a cloth for years. Brushed wall paint on cabinets stays soft and marks under a fingernail.
Cabinet painting keeps doors, boxes and drawer fronts out of the landfill. A kitchen that is sound underneath does not need to be thrown away to look new.
Golden Oak Raised Panel Doors Bring In More Cabinet Painting Work Than Anything Else
Oak accepts cabinet painting well once the grain is dealt with and the tannins are blocked. The 1980s and 1990s builder standard across Stevenson, Northglen, Pinecrest and the older parts of Samac was cathedral-arch golden oak on melamine boxes, and those doors are still hanging in hundreds of kitchens here. A water-based primer alone will let tannin bleed through as pink and brown blotches at the panel edges, so shellac primer goes on first.
The grain is then a choice rather than a problem. Two or three coats of grain filler, sanded back, give a smooth shaker-style face, while leaving the grain open costs less and keeps the texture of the wood. Oak cabinet painting covers both routes, and honey maple and warm cherry from the 2000s are prepared the same way.
Flat Slab Doors From The Post-War Belt Spray Out Perfectly Even
Plain doors with no profile are the easiest cabinet painting surfaces there are. Donevan, Eastdale, Farewell and Vanier were built for General Motors families across three post-war decades, and plenty of those bungalows and side-splits still carry birch or fir slab doors under dark varnish. There is no panel, no bead and no arch to hold a run.
Sprayed on edge in a booth, a slab door comes back looking like it was made that way. Cabinet spray painting uses waterborne alkyd enamel or a two-component polyurethane, applied in coats thin enough to flash off without sagging, and cabinet painting owes more to that step than to the colour chosen.
How A Cabinet Painting Job Runs
Visit and written quote
Cabinet painting starts with a free visit. Doors and drawers are counted, the material is identified, damage and grease are noted, and colour and sheen are discussed. A written quote follows with every part of the job priced line by line.
Doors off and degreased
Every door, drawer front and hinge comes off and is labelled, and the layout is photographed so each piece returns to its own opening. The whole kitchen is degreased before any sandpaper is used, because grease and wax push a coating off.
Sanding, filling and masking
Surfaces are sanded to a dull, even scratch, dents and old hardware holes are filled, and gaps are caulked. Plastic and tape then close off the boxes from counter height to ceiling, so dust and overspray stay in the work zone.
Primer and sprayed topcoats
The primer is matched to the material. Doors are sprayed flat in the booth and boxes are sprayed where they stand, with a light scuff between every coat so each layer bonds to the one below it.
Rehang and walk-through
Doors return to their labelled openings, hinges are adjusted for even reveals, and hardware is fitted. The finished kitchen is walked through with the owner, who is told how long to treat the new finish gently.
Why Doors Are Sprayed Off Site
Doors sprayed flat in a booth
A door sprayed flat in a filtered booth cannot sag, and the coating levels without dust or brush marks. Boxes get the same primer and topcoat on site behind sealed plastic, so doors and frames match.
Prep that matches the material
Degreasing comes first, then the right primer for the substrate. Oak gets shellac to block tannin, and melamine and laminate get a bonding primer. Thin coats are scuffed between passes so the film stays hard.
A quote you can compare
The written quote names the substrate, primer, topcoat, sheen, coat count and total. Extras such as grain filling or a second colour are separate lines, so two quotes can be compared item by item.
Honest advice before any work
Some doors cannot be painted, such as thermofoil that has lifted or fibreboard swollen around a sink. We say so at the visit, and point to refinishing where the wood is worth keeping. Every job is fully insured.
Thermofoil Doors That Have Started To Peel Cannot Be Painted
Paint will not stick vinyl back down to the board underneath. Thermofoil was fitted to builder kitchens, vanities and gable ends from about 1995 to 2010, and it lifts where steam and heat reach it, usually beside the dishwasher and above the stove. Once that skin is curling, the door has to be stripped to the fibreboard or replaced.
Intact thermofoil, melamine and laminate are a different matter. A waterborne bonding primer grips those slick faces, and the board needs three or four days before the finish is fully anchored. Thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting explains which doors pass that test and which ones are outside what cabinet painting can fix.
Some Walnut, Cherry And White Oak Kitchens Are Worth Keeping As Bare Wood
Some kitchens are better refinished than sent for cabinet painting. Where the wood is a species worth looking at, the doors are stripped or sanded back, stained to the new tone and given a clear coat, so the grain stays visible and the colour still changes. Wood finishes have climbed back to close to a third of kitchens in recent design surveys.
The decision comes down to species and condition. Cabinet refinishing is the route for walnut, cherry and white oak in good order, while cabinet painting suits builder maple, oak that has been patched, and anything already coated.
A Darker Island Breaks Up A Long Run Of Pale Upper Cabinets
Two-tone cabinet painting reads better than one flat colour in a large open kitchen. The open-plan kitchens built north of Taunton Road from 2005 on put twenty feet of cabinetry in one sightline, and a single pale colour over all of it flattens the room. Navy, forest green, charcoal or a refinished wood island gives the space a centre.
An island can also be done on its own, without touching the perimeter, which is the cheapest cabinet painting project in this trade. Two-tone kitchens and island painting sets out the colour pairings that hold up and the extra cost of a second colour.
Vanities, Pantries And Laundry Cabinets Are Small Cabinet Painting Jobs That Bundle Well
Cabinet painting in these rooms takes one or two days each and costs a fraction of a kitchen. A vanity is six or eight pieces, so it is often added to a kitchen quote for very little, though moisture and hot tools mean the primer and topcoat have to be chosen with care. Bathroom vanity painting also makes a sensible trial run for anybody weighing up a colour before the kitchen commits to it.
Utility cabinetry is usually sprayed on site rather than trucked out. Pantry doors, laundry uppers, mudroom lockers, bookcases and fireplace mantels all get that treatment, which is the subject of pantry, laundry and built-in cabinet painting.
Rental Kitchens Near The Simcoe Street Campuses Turn Over Every Summer
Landlords need a fixed price, a short window and a finish that survives students. Around thirty thousand people study at Ontario Tech and Durham College, whose shared north campus sits at 2000 Simcoe Street North, and the rental houses and units through Samac, Windfields and Northglen change tenants between April and August. Most of those kitchens are melamine or 1980s oak.
Cabinet painting for a rental is quoted per unit, scheduled inside the turnover gap and finished with a hard topcoat rather than a soft one. Student rental cabinet painting covers the timing, the hardware repairs done in the same visit, and the inspection-ready condition landlords want under the city rental licensing program.
Galley Kitchens In Downtown Apartment Buildings Need The Doors Taken Away
A small kitchen has nowhere to put the equipment cabinet painting needs. Central and Centennial carry most of the city's high-rise and low-rise apartment stock, and those galley kitchens are eight to fifteen doors of melamine in a room too narrow to seal off for a week. Taking the doors out of the building solves it.
Loading bays, elevator bookings and visitor parking get arranged before the day starts. Condo kitchen cabinet painting explains how a unit stays livable while its doors are in the shop, and why condo cabinet painting is priced by the door rather than by the room.
Finished Kitchens And Close Details
These photographs show sprayed doors, fitted hardware and finished rooms at close range. Cabinet work is judged from eighteen inches away, so that is how it is shown here.
How Other Cabinet Painting Crews Handle Oshawa
Other Crews Serving Nearby Communities
Crews handling cabinet painting in Oakville, like kitchen cabinet painters in Oakville, face the same masking, ventilation and cure-time considerations we do here in Oshawa — the fundamentals of a lasting finish don't change much from one city to the next.
Hamilton homeowners researching cabinet refinishing often turn up professional cabinet painters in Hamilton, and it's worth a look: the same emphasis on a dust-controlled workspace and a factory-style topcoat applies whether the kitchen is in Hamilton or Oshawa.
Cambridge homeowners researching cabinet refinishing often turn up cabinet refinishing services in Cambridge, and it's worth a look: the same emphasis on a dust-controlled workspace and a factory-style topcoat applies whether the kitchen is in Cambridge or Oshawa.
cabinet painting in Milton is one of the crews we'd point to if you're weighing options in Milton — the core steps of protecting the space, prepping every door and drawer front, and choosing a finish built for daily use are consistent with how we approach a project here in Oshawa.
If your search for cabinet painters extends beyond Oshawa, Mississauga cabinet painting specialists covers the Mississauga market with a comparable process: degreasing, sanding, priming, and a sprayed or brushed topcoat depending on the kitchen.
Request an Estimate, see our full service list, or read how we coordinate with insulation and other trades on a bigger renovation.
Cabinet Painting Questions
How much does cabinet painting cost for a kitchen in Oshawa?
Across Ontario the common band for a whole kitchen is $2,500 to $5,500, small kitchens start near $1,500, and large or two-tone kitchens run $6,000 to $9,000 and up. Per door the market sits at roughly $130 to $250. Those are market ranges rather than a quote, and the written number for a specific kitchen is the one that applies.
How long will the kitchen be out of action during cabinet painting?
The kitchen itself keeps working the whole time. Doors are away for five to ten days, according to how big the job is, the carcasses take two or three working days indoors, and the room functions as open shelving in between.
Will the paint chip around the handles?
Handles and the cutlery drawer take more wear than anywhere else in a kitchen, and they are where poor cabinet painting shows first. Degreasing, the right primer, thin sprayed coats and a hard topcoat are what stop it, along with waiting out the cure before the doors get heavy use.
Can melamine and laminate be painted?
Both can, as long as the surface is intact and not swollen. A waterborne bonding primer is what makes cabinet painting hold on a slick face, and it wants several days to anchor properly before any door is rehung.
Is the work insured?
Yes. Every cabinet painting job is fully insured. The written quote lists the door and drawer count, the primer, the topcoat, the coat count and the total, so you know exactly what is being done before anything starts. Questions about a specific kitchen get answered at the free visit.
Serving Oshawa, Courtice, Bowmanville And Port Perry With Cabinet Painting
Work runs from the lake up to Columbus and Raglan, east through Courtice, Hampton, Bowmanville, Newcastle and Orono, and north on Highway 7A to Port Perry and Blackstock. Inside the city that means the older grid in Central, O'Neill and Vanier, the post-war streets of Donevan, Eastdale and Farewell, the 1980s and 1990s blocks in Stevenson, Northglen and Pinecrest, and the newer builds in Kedron, Taunton and Windfields. Quotes are booked by phone or through the contact page, and the visit runs about thirty minutes.
- Oshawa
- Courtice
- Bowmanville
- Newcastle
- Orono
- Hampton
- Port Perry
- Blackstock
- Columbus
- Raglan
Talk to us about your cabinets
Call +1 (289) 201-5963 or use the form near the top of this page. The visit and the written quote are free.