Cabinet Painting in The Glebe
Kitchens in older houses, where the cabinetry is frequently custom, frequently altered and never a catalogue size.
Paint Experts provides professional cabinet painting throughout The Glebe, Ottawa. Glebe kitchens are rarely a standard package: they are built to fit rooms that were not designed as kitchens, they have often been extended or partly replaced, and the joinery ranges from genuinely old to installed last year against a hundred-year-old wall.
Custom joinery, non-standard sizes and mixed vintages
It is common here to find a run of original built-in cabinetry beside a newer section installed during a renovation, with different door profiles, different depths and different finishes. Painting them a single colour is usually what pulls the kitchen together, but the two sections need different preparation to get there — an old lacquered face frame and a new factory-finished door do not accept a primer the same way.
Working with layers of previous paint
Older Glebe cabinetry has usually been painted before, sometimes repeatedly, and the accumulated film hides the profile detail that made the joinery worth keeping. Where the build-up has softened an edge or partly filled a bead we sand it back to recover the shape rather than adding another coat over the top. On any pre-1980 substrate that sanding is done contained and by wet method, because the older layers may contain lead.
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(613) 801-7316Tight kitchens, no staging space and street access
A Glebe kitchen is usually small and usually at the back of a narrow house, which means there is nowhere on site to lay out doors and nowhere to park a van outside the door. Removing doors to our shop is not a convenience here, it is the only workable method. We plan the removal trip and the reinstall trip around street parking rather than assuming a driveway exists.
Choosing a colour that suits an older room
Glebe kitchens often have small windows, deep rooms and warm original woodwork elsewhere in the house. A cool bright white that photographs well in a showroom can read grey and flat in a north-facing back kitchen. We sample on the actual doors, in the actual room, at the time of day you use it, before anything is committed.
Common questions
How much does cabinet painting cost in The Glebe?
$3,500 to $6,500 for a typical kitchen. Older kitchens with heavy paint build-up or mixed vintages of joinery sit toward the upper end because of the extra preparation.
Can you paint cabinetry that has already been painted several times?
Yes, and usually it should be sanded back rather than coated again, because accumulated film softens the profile detail that made the joinery worth keeping.
There is nowhere to work in my kitchen. Is that a problem?
No. Doors and drawer fronts come to our shop, which is how we work everywhere but is essential in a small Glebe kitchen.
Quote my Glebe kitchen
Send photos of the cabinetry, including any older sections. We will assess and quote in writing.