A whole kitchen taken back to a sound surface, primed by substrate and sprayed in thin coats. Doors and drawer fronts are finished in a shop booth, boxes and face frames on site. That is cabinet painting done properly.
Kitchens here range from 1960s birch slab doors in West Lynde to factory shaker in the newest Brooklin subdivisions, and the prep changes with each. The quote is built after the doors are counted and the material is identified, never from a photo alone. A kitchen that also needs new doors on a few openings gets that priced as its own line.
What A Kitchen Cabinet Painting Quote Sets Out On Paper
Every quote names six things. It gives the door count and the drawer front count, the substrate, the primer, the topcoat, the number of coats and the total. Cabinet interiors, crown moulding, a two-tone island and new hardware each appear as their own line, so nothing is buried.
A cabinet painting quote written that way can be compared against any other quote in town without a phone call. If a second opinion says a kitchen is thirty-two pieces and ours says thirty-six, the difference is visible rather than argued about.
How Many Days Kitchen Cabinet Painting Takes In A Working House
Doors and drawer fronts leave on the first morning and come back four to six days later. Boxes and face frames take one to three contained days in the kitchen, set by how long the run is. Total cabinet painting time from first visit to hardware going on usually falls between seven and twelve days.
The kitchen itself never stops working. The sink, the range, the fridge and the counters stay in service the whole time, and the open boxes behave like shelving until the doors return. Only the two contained days ask the household to stay out of the room.
Curing is the part people underestimate. A waterborne alkyd enamel handles gently after a day and reaches full hardness closer to a month, while a two-component polyurethane is hard within a day. Cabinet painting that gets loaded up with heavy pots in its first week is the kind that marks.
What Kitchen Cabinet Painting Costs Across Durham Region
Ontario kitchens in 2026 mostly land between $2,500 and $5,500 for a full repaint. Small ones can begin near $1,500. A large kitchen with an island, or two colours instead of one, runs from about $6,000 to $9,000 and beyond. By the piece, cabinet painting sits around $130 to $250 per door.
Those are market ranges rather than a Whitby price, and the written quote is the number that applies to a particular kitchen. For comparison, refacing runs roughly $3,000 to $10,000 and full replacement starts around $15,000 and climbs past $40,000.
Piece count drives the figure hardest. A Williamsburg kitchen with four bedrooms behind it carries far more doors than a Pringle Creek galley. Substrate is next, since laminate and thermofoil need a bonding primer, and oak needs grain filler. A deep colour is third, because it usually wants a third coat. Oak kitchens are covered in more depth here.
Which Rooms Get Cabinet Painting Alongside The Kitchen
Laundry rooms are the most common addition, especially the upper cabinets over a washer where steam has already dulled the finish. Mudrooms and lockers come next, since they take more physical abuse than any kitchen cabinet does and need the harder of the two coating families.
Walk-in pantries in the larger Williamsburg and Brooklin houses often hold more linear feet of shelving than the kitchen itself. Half the houses in Williamsburg have four or more bedrooms, and the built-in storage matches. Wall units, window seats, banquettes and fireplace mantels finish the list, and each is priced by measured run rather than by door count.
Drilling New Holes With A Template Before Cabinet Painting Begins
A template jig clamps to the door and puts every hole at the same distance from the edge and the same height off the rail. Measuring each door by hand risks a run of uppers where three handles sit a few millimetres out, and the eye picks that up instantly across a long wall of doors.
Drawer fronts get their own template setting, since the centre of a wide drawer front is not the same reference as a door stile. Holes are drilled from the face with a backer board behind to stop blowout on the inside. That is routine on any cabinet painting job that includes new hardware.
Book The Free Visit And Get The Kitchen Priced In Writing
The visit costs nothing and rarely runs past half an hour. Doors are counted, the material is identified, box condition is checked, and the colour conversation starts. A written cabinet painting quote follows within a day or two, and it stands whether or not the job goes ahead.
Call +1 (289) 201-5986, or send the kitchen details through the contact page. The home page lists every sort of cabinet painting on offer, including vanities, built-ins and condo kitchens.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
How long does kitchen cabinet painting take?
Doors and drawer fronts are away four to six days. Boxes and face frames take one to three contained days in the kitchen. From first visit to hardware going on, the total is usually seven to twelve days. The sink, range and fridge stay in service throughout.
How long before the finish is fully hard?
Dry means it can be touched. A waterborne alkyd enamel handles gently after a day, takes normal use in about seven days and reaches full hardness nearer thirty. A two-component polyurethane is hard inside a day. Heavy pots should wait until the first week has passed.
What does the written quote include?
It names the door count and drawer front count, the substrate, the primer, the topcoat, the number of coats and the total. Interiors, crown moulding, a two-tone island and new hardware each get their own line. The quote stands whether or not the job goes ahead.