Do you do full kitchen renovations, walls and all?

No. We do two trades, cabinet making and spray finishing, and we hire a fabricator for stone. Walls, floors, plumbing and electrical are not our work. A company that says yes to every part of a renovation is hiring others for most of it and charging you extra.

How do I know my boxes are worth keeping?

Send photos and we will give you an honest answer, even if it is not the one you want. Particleboard that has swollen under a sink, a frame that is no longer square, or cabinets built on a floor that has settled are cases where refacing wastes your money. Those kitchens should be replaced, and we will tell you so instead of quoting the work.

How long am I without a kitchen?

Five days. The project takes four to five weeks, but for four of them your doors are being made while your kitchen works just like it does now, with the sink, appliances and counters all in use. The week you notice is the installation week, and it is the only one.

Is the price going to move after somebody visits?

No. Ninety-nine percent of our quotes are done from photos. The written price follows within 24 to 48 hours, broken down line by line instead of one total. If a visit shows something that changes the work, that is our problem. It does not become a new line on your bill.

What is the warranty?

Five years on the finish and the work, and fifteen years on waterproof MDF doors and drawer fronts. Stone is different, and we tell you up front. Countertops carry a one-year warranty from the fabricator who cuts and installs them.

A Toronto kitchen by Kitchen Made New with charcoal slab doors, a fluted island panel and a butcher-block countertop

Nobody here has an incentive to sell you a tear-out. Refacing and repainting in Toronto.

Kitchen Remodeler in Toronto — Most Kitchens Do Not Need Gutting

In most Toronto homes, the cabinet boxes are the strongest thing in the kitchen. What wears out is the finish, the hardware and the countertop, not the boxes.

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Your cabinet boxes are usually the strongest thing in the room
What wears out is the finish, the hardware and the countertop
Five days without a kitchen, not five weeks

4–5 weeks

Start to finish, with five days without a kitchen

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Your house decides more than your budget does

North York was built in two waves. The first wave, in the fifties and sixties, brought bungalows and side-splits. Many of those kitchens still have their original cabinets: solid frames, real wood doors, and forty years of amber lacquer that has turned the colour of weak tea. The second wave, from the nineties on, filled in with builder kitchens. Their doors are thermofoil over MDF, and their boxes are stapled particleboard.

These two kinds of house need opposite things, and the wrong service for either one wastes money. The sixties kitchen usually has wood worth uncovering and frames that will last longer than the people living there. The nineties kitchen often has a good layout, but it is covered in a material that cannot be repaired once the foil starts to peel at a corner.

So the first question is never what you want done. It is what you have. We can answer that from photos, in a day, and it costs you nothing. That is why we ask for photos before we quote anything.

Why gutting is the usual advice, and why it often should not be

Before — A kitchen before and after. Dark cherry doors were replaced with white on the same boxes, and the granite, mosaic backsplash and tile floor all stayed — Dark cherry to white. The granite and the boxes both stayed.

After — A kitchen before and after. Dark cherry doors were replaced with white on the same boxes, and the granite, mosaic backsplash and tile floor all stayed — Dark cherry to white. The granite and the boxes both stayed.

Ask most contractors about a dated kitchen, and they will suggest tearing it out. A tear-out is easy to price and easy to sell. But in many Toronto homes, it means throwing away the most expensive thing in the room, for reasons that are only about looks.

A cabinet box has one job: to hold weight and stay square for decades. Frames built in 1962 from solid wood often do that job better than what would replace them. The new cabinets are very likely to be melamine-covered particleboard, held together with a cam-lock at every corner.

What really wears out in a kitchen is the part you can see. Doors peel, hinges sag, finishes turn yellow, and laminate counters bubble at the seam behind the tap. All of these can be replaced without touching the box behind them, and that costs a fraction of a gut.

We do tear out kitchens when the boxes are truly finished. For example, water damage under a sink that has spread through the base, a run of cabinets that is no longer square, or particleboard that has swollen and will not hold a screw. Those problems are real, and we will tell you when we see them. But they are not common.

What five days without a kitchen really looks like

People expect to lose their kitchen for weeks. The number that matters is five days.

A refacing or repainting project takes four to five weeks from start to finish. For four of those weeks, your kitchen is completely normal. Your doors are being made or sprayed at our shop, and your cabinet boxes stay where they are, holding what they always hold. You can cook, wash up and use every appliance. The only difference is open shelves where the doors used to be, and people often like that more than they expected.

The week you notice is the installation week. We spray the frames in place behind a sealed barrier. For two or three days of that week, we ask you to stay out of the house, because 2K is solvent-based and you should not sleep near it. Then the doors go back on, the hardware is added, and the job is done.

If you are also replacing your countertop, the stone is measured the day the old top comes off, and the new one arrives about ten days later. That is why we schedule it with the cabinet work, not after it.

How we work

Why four to five weeks only costs you five days

We make your doors while your kitchen still works. We only start taking the kitchen apart once they are ready.

Day one

Off and sealed

Doors and drawer fronts come off. Zipper walls and plastic sheeting seal the kitchen off from the rest of the house. Appliances and counters are covered, and air filters go in.
Days two and three

Degreased and sanded

A solvent degreaser removes the wax and polish that water-based cleaners leave behind. Then we sand every frame. Good prep is what makes a finish last.
Days four and five

Sprayed

Tinted primer, then sanding, then two topcoats of 2K polyurethane, with drying time between coats. It is best to be out of the house for these two days.
Final day

Fitted and walked through

New doors and drawer fronts go on, the hardware is added, and every door is adjusted. Then we check every cabinet with you before anything is signed off.

A common mix-up

Refacing or repainting — two different jobs

People often ask for one when they mean the other. The difference decides the price, the result and whether either one suits your kitchen.

Aspect	Refacing	Repainting
Doors and drawer fronts	New panels, made to fit your openings.	Kept. We degrease, sand, prime and spray them.
Cabinet frames	Sprayed on site in 2K to match the new doors.	Sprayed on site in 2K to match the doors you keep.
Change the door style	Yes. Shaker, slab or raised panel, whatever suits the room.	No. The same style you have now, in a new colour.
Right for a kitchen where	The boxes are strong, but the doors are dated, damaged or the wrong style.	The doors are strong and well made, and only the colour looks dated.
Time on site	About five days.	About five days.
Start to finish	Four to five weeks. Your new doors are being made for four of them.	Two and a half to three weeks.
Cost	Higher, because you are buying new doors.	Lower, because you are paying for labour and finish.

Recent work

Toronto kitchens, before and after

Every pair is a real job, photographed in the room where we did it.

Before — honey oak sprayed Incense Stick, one tone through the whole kitchen — Rouge, Scarborough — Rouge · honey oak sprayed Incense Stick, one tone through the whole kitchen

After — honey oak sprayed Incense Stick, one tone through the whole kitchen — Rouge, Scarborough — Rouge · honey oak sprayed Incense Stick, one tone through the whole kitchen

Before — dark walnut sprayed one grey tone, three cabinets rebuilt — Pelmo Park-Humberlea, Toronto — Pelmo Park-Humberlea · dark walnut sprayed one grey tone, three cabinets rebuilt

After — dark walnut sprayed one grey tone, three cabinets rebuilt — Pelmo Park-Humberlea, Toronto — Pelmo Park-Humberlea · dark walnut sprayed one grey tone, three cabinets rebuilt

Before — new kitchen supplied and fitted, off white with quartz — Richview, Etobicoke — Richview · new kitchen supplied and fitted, off white with quartz

After — new kitchen supplied and fitted, off white with quartz — Richview, Etobicoke — Richview · new kitchen supplied and fitted, off white with quartz

Before — glazed cream and stained oak refinished in Simply White and Chelsea Grey — Bedford Park, North York — Bedford Park · glazed cream and stained oak refinished in Simply White and Chelsea Grey

After — glazed cream and stained oak refinished in Simply White and Chelsea Grey — Bedford Park, North York — Bedford Park · glazed cream and stained oak refinished in Simply White and Chelsea Grey

Before — new stained kitchen built to a floor plan, fitted under a sloping ceiling — Weston-Pellam Park, Toronto — Weston-Pellam Park · new stained kitchen built to a floor plan, fitted under a sloping ceiling

After — new stained kitchen built to a floor plan, fitted under a sloping ceiling — Weston-Pellam Park, Toronto — Weston-Pellam Park · new stained kitchen built to a floor plan, fitted under a sloping ceiling

Before — orange-toned maple sprayed Stone Hearth, new brass pulls — Rosedale-Moore Park, Toronto — Rosedale-Moore Park · orange-toned maple sprayed Stone Hearth, new brass pulls

After — orange-toned maple sprayed Stone Hearth, new brass pulls — Rosedale-Moore Park, Toronto — Rosedale-Moore Park · orange-toned maple sprayed Stone Hearth, new brass pulls

Before — perimeter sprayed white, the island left as it was — Richview, Etobicoke — Richview · perimeter sprayed white, the island left as it was

After — perimeter sprayed white, the island left as it was — Richview, Etobicoke — Richview · perimeter sprayed white, the island left as it was

Before — espresso sprayed Stone Hearth, granite kept, three new maple shelves — East Credit, Mississauga — East Credit · espresso sprayed Stone Hearth, granite kept, three new maple shelves

After — espresso sprayed Stone Hearth, granite kept, three new maple shelves — East Credit, Mississauga — East Credit · espresso sprayed Stone Hearth, granite kept, three new maple shelves

Before — maple refaced in white MDF, two new boxes built — Gorham-College Manor, Newmarket — Gorham-College Manor · maple refaced in white MDF, two new boxes built

After — maple refaced in white MDF, two new boxes built — Gorham-College Manor, Newmarket — Gorham-College Manor · maple refaced in white MDF, two new boxes built

Before — dark cherry sprayed white, new knobs and handles — Jerome, Hamilton — Jerome · dark cherry sprayed white, new knobs and handles

After — dark cherry sprayed white, new knobs and handles — Jerome, Hamilton — Jerome · dark cherry sprayed white, new knobs and handles

Before — espresso thermofoil to Cashmere Grey, refaced and sprayed to match — Markham Village, Markham — Markham Village · espresso thermofoil to Cashmere Grey, refaced and sprayed to match

After — espresso thermofoil to Cashmere Grey, refaced and sprayed to match — Markham Village, Markham — Markham Village · espresso thermofoil to Cashmere Grey, refaced and sprayed to match

Before — golden oak sprayed charcoal — Uptown Core, Oakville — Uptown Core · golden oak sprayed charcoal

After — golden oak sprayed charcoal — Uptown Core, Oakville — Uptown Core · golden oak sprayed charcoal

Before — honey maple sprayed navy below and white above, counters by others — Merton, Oakville — Merton · honey maple sprayed navy below and white above, counters by others

After — honey maple sprayed navy below and white above, counters by others — Merton, Oakville — Merton · honey maple sprayed navy below and white above, counters by others

Before — oak to two-tone shaker, new quartz — Rouge Woods, Richmond Hill — Rouge Woods · oak to two-tone shaker, new quartz

After — oak to two-tone shaker, new quartz — Rouge Woods, Richmond Hill — Rouge Woods · oak to two-tone shaker, new quartz

Before — espresso to white shaker, granite kept — College Park, Oakville — College Park · espresso to white shaker, granite kept

After — espresso to white shaker, granite kept — College Park, Oakville — College Park · espresso to white shaker, granite kept

Before — dark wenge to light driftwood, refaced — River Oaks, Oakville — River Oaks · dark wenge to light driftwood, refaced

After — dark wenge to light driftwood, refaced — River Oaks, Oakville — River Oaks · dark wenge to light driftwood, refaced

Before — two-tone to all white, custom end panel — Old Oakville, Oakville — Old Oakville · two-tone to all white, custom end panel

After — two-tone to all white, custom end panel — Old Oakville, Oakville — Old Oakville · two-tone to all white, custom end panel

Walk through one

A Toronto kitchen, finished

Photos are framed and chosen. A walk-through shows the corners a photo would have left out.

A finished custom kitchen in Toronto with white shaker cabinets, a waterfall marble-look island and a stainless hood, shown room by room — A Toronto kitchen design, finished

Not every kitchen on this page is a refacing job. This one is a full design. It has new cabinets throughout, planned and built rather than fitted to boxes that were already there. That is what our kitchen design service covers.

The same crew that chooses door styles for a refacing quote chose every finish here. The cabinets, the island, the hardware and the layout were all decided in the room, in the light it really gets.

This is the one job on this page where the boxes did not stay. Most Toronto kitchens do not need this. Some do, and this is what it looks like when it is done.

Before you commit

We design it in your kitchen

No trip to a showroom and no guessing from a brochure.

Door samples and finishes laid out in a client's kitchen

100+ kitchens remodeled across Toronto and Mississauga

We come to you. We lay out samples, finishes and hardware on your own counter, next to your floors and in your light. Then we design around the kitchen you actually have.

Door profiles, colours and hardware brought to your kitchen
Your written quote already in hand, and it does not change after the visit
Options for what to change and what to leave alone
No charge, no deposit taken on the day

Travis, Tung and Nick — the crew who will be in your kitchen.

He provides a detailed quote upfront and there were never any surprises when it came to the final cost.

Andrea Chan

We did kitchen cabinet refacing replacing all cabinet doors with a new brighter colour… the look of our condo looking more modern and spacious.

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Four ways in

What a Toronto kitchen remodel covers

There are four services here, and most kitchens need two of them. Which two depends on what is still in good shape.

Cabinet refacing in Toronto

We make new doors and drawer fronts to fit the openings in your kitchen, and we fit them to the frames you already have. The boxes stay where they are. We spray them instead of covering them in stick-on veneer, so the whole run looks like one smooth surface with no seams. Most Toronto kitchens turn out to need this service. Once you know what stays and what goes when a kitchen is refaced, you have everything you need to decide.

A refaced galley kitchen finished in white gloss, the run reading as one continuous surface with no seams at the frames

Cabinet refinishing in Toronto

This is for solid wood only, and it works the opposite way from refacing. You keep your doors, and we take everything off them. We strip them to bare wood, sand them, stain them and seal them under clear 2K, so the wood grain shows through the finish. It takes longer than painting and costs more, because stripping a raised panel is done by hand, not by machine. Knowing when the timber under the old lacquer is worth uncovering answers the question in a minute.

A built-in cabinet wall stripped and refinished in a rich cherry stain, glass-front doors and crown moulding, the grain reading through the finish

Countertop replacement in Toronto

Stone is the one part of the job we do not cut ourselves. A fabricator measures, cuts and installs it. We choose the slab with you, price it into the job, hold the contract and time it with the cabinet work. That way your kitchen is out of use once, not twice. If you book it separately, you get two disruptions and two companies blaming each other for the gap at the wall. Learn how new stone gets scheduled against the cabinet work and why the timing matters.

Kitchen design in Toronto

We help you choose the colour, the door style, the hardware and any layout changes that are still open once the boxes are staying. This is not a full architect's service, and we do not say it is. Walls, plumbing and electrical are other trades. It is the part where we sit down with you, with samples on your own counter, in your own light. The main thing about what a design visit settles that photographs cannot is the light.

The rest of it

Three more trades under the same roof

See the colour on your own cabinets first

Almost every kitchen we spray starts with the same question. It is not about price. It is which colour to choose. A paint chip in a store tells you very little, because store lighting is nothing like the light in your kitchen. This tool shows you how a colour actually reads in your own kitchen. Upload one wide photo, pick from the colours we spray most, and see your own cabinets in that colour. The same photos then start your written quote.

A preview generated by the colour visualiser showing a kitchen with its dark oak cabinets repainted white

Cabinet painting and everything else sprayed

If your door style is right and only the colour looks dated, painting costs less and is often the right choice. Your doors go to the spray booth on Barmac Drive. Your frames are sprayed in place, behind a sealed barrier, in the same 2K finish, so everything matches. That is a different trade from cabinet making, and very few companies do both. This page explains why a sprayed door and a brushed one are not the same product and what the difference gets you.

A finished kitchen sprayed soft greige, doors and frames reading as one colour

Doors, drawer boxes and millwork, made here

This is our shop work. We make doors to fit your openings. We rebuild drawer boxes in plywood where the old ones were stapled particleboard. We add soft-close hardware, and we make trim and millwork to match what is already in your room. This work is what makes refacing possible. Before you compare two quotes that use the same words for different things, it helps to know what gets built rather than bought in.

Freshly sprayed cabinet doors racked in the shop, curing before installation

Quartz, backsplash and island work

This is countertop work as its own job, not as part of a cabinet project. It covers quartz replacement, the backsplash behind it, and islands that are resurfaced or made bigger. Measuring is done digitally. The fabricator is hired by us and named in your quote, and we agree on the seam positions with you instead of deciding them at the wall. Knowing how a countertop job is priced before a slab is chosen is the fastest way to compare stone quotes fairly.

A finished kitchen with new quartz across the counters and peninsula

How refacing and repainting are priced in Toronto

Both are priced by the number of doors and drawers plus the days on site, not by the size of the kitchen. A galley with twelve doors and a U-shaped kitchen with twenty-six narrower doors can have the same floor area and different prices. That is because each door has to be handled, prepped, sprayed and hung.

Which of the two services you need changes the price more than the door count does. A sixties kitchen with solid wood doors usually needs a repaint: degrease, sand, prime, spray, done. The frames need less fixing because they were built well the first time. A nineties builder kitchen with peeling thermofoil almost always needs refacing instead. A peeling door cannot be painted back together, so it has to be replaced.

For refacing, the material also changes the price. Painted waterproof MDF is the lowest-cost option and has the longest warranty. Solid hardwood stained under clear 2K, for a kitchen where you want to see the grain, is at the top. Hardware, crown moulding and panel-ready appliance fronts are each priced on their own line. That way you can see what each one costs before you decide to keep it.

In almost every case we count from photos, and the written quote follows within 24 to 48 hours. It is the same price a visit would give you, and we do not change it afterwards. Compared with a full gut renovation, either service usually costs a third to a half as much, for the part of the kitchen that was actually the problem.

Working out of North York, quoting across the city

Our shop is on Barmac Drive, near Steeles and Islington, and the van leaves at seven in the morning. That early start is what lets a crew reach Willowdale, the Kingsway or Port Credit and still do a full day of work before afternoon traffic makes the trip home an hour longer.

We work across the City of Toronto and Peel. That includes North York and the rest of the old boroughs, Etobicoke, and Mississauga out to about Streetsville. Downtown semis, Don Mills bungalows, Kingsway Tudor homes and Mississauga's eighties subdivisions are all normal jobs for us, not special trips.

Two more things, because people ask. We speak Vietnamese as well as English, and a lot of our work comes from families who prefer to talk through the details in Vietnamese. And every quote comes from the owner, not from a salesperson paid by commission. That is a big part of why nobody here has a reason to sell you a tear-out.

Why us

Why Toronto homeowners choose us for this

The boxes stay, so the cost drops: Refacing and repainting both keep the cabinet boxes already on your wall. We replace only what wears out: the doors, drawer fronts, hardware and finish. You save on labour and disposal as well as materials. That is why both cost far less than a full gut renovation.
Two trades under one roof: A cabinet shop that cannot spray sends you to a painter. A painter who cannot make doors sends you to a cabinet shop. Our crew does both. Your new doors and your sprayed frames come from the same place, so you do not have two contractors trying to match each other's work.
The quote is the price: Wide photos of every run of cabinets get you a written price within 24 to 48 hours. It does not change after a visit, and it does not change during the job. Every add-on is its own line, so you can drop one without renegotiating the total.
Five days without a kitchen, not five weeks: We make your doors or schedule your frames while your kitchen still works. We only start taking things apart at your house once the materials are ready. That keeps the messy part to one week.

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Common questions about remodelling a kitchen in Toronto

Do you do full kitchen renovations, walls and all?: No. We do two trades, cabinet making and spray finishing, and we hire a fabricator for stone. Walls, floors, plumbing and electrical are not our work. A company that says yes to every part of a renovation is hiring others for most of it and charging you extra.
How do I know my boxes are worth keeping?: Send photos and we will give you an honest answer, even if it is not the one you want. Particleboard that has swollen under a sink, a frame that is no longer square, or cabinets built on a floor that has settled are cases where refacing wastes your money. Those kitchens should be replaced, and we will tell you so instead of quoting the work.
How long am I without a kitchen?: Five days. The project takes four to five weeks, but for four of them your doors are being made while your kitchen works just like it does now, with the sink, appliances and counters all in use. The week you notice is the installation week, and it is the only one.
Is the price going to move after somebody visits?: No. Ninety-nine percent of our quotes are done from photos. The written price follows within 24 to 48 hours, broken down line by line instead of one total. If a visit shows something that changes the work, that is our problem. It does not become a new line on your bill.
What is the warranty?: Five years on the finish and the work, and fifteen years on waterproof MDF doors and drawer fronts. Stone is different, and we tell you up front. Countertops carry a one-year warranty from the fabricator who cuts and installs them.

Not sure if your kitchen needs gutting or just finishing?

Send wide photos of every run of cabinets, and a written price comes back within 24 hours. It does not change afterwards. If your boxes are not worth keeping, that is the first thing we will tell you.

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Kitchen Remodeler in Toronto — Most Kitchens Do Not Need Gutting

Off and sealed

Degreased and sanded

Sprayed

Fitted and walked through

Cabinet refacing in Toronto

Cabinet refinishing in Toronto

Countertop replacement in Toronto

Kitchen design in Toronto

See the colour on your own cabinets first

Cabinet painting and everything else sprayed

Doors, drawer boxes and millwork, made here

Quartz, backsplash and island work

Not sure if your kitchen needs gutting or just finishing?