My cabinets are sixties timber under yellowed lacquer — is a preview any use?

That is the case it helps with most. Amber lacquer makes it very hard to picture anything pale, because everything you are looking at is filtered through forty years of yellow. Seeing your own doors rendered in a cool white or a deep navy is the fastest way to find out whether the colour you have in mind survives the change.

What about nineties fronts that cannot be repaired?

Preview them the same way. Where the fronts are a material that will not take a repair, the fronts get replaced rather than refinished — but the colour decision is identical, and it is worth checking on screen against the countertop and floor you are keeping.

Where do you work from?

The van leaves Barmac Drive at 7am. We cover North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough, and the doors come back to the shop to be sprayed rather than being coated in your kitchen.

Do you bring samples as well?

Always. Nothing is committed off a screen — a preview narrows a long list to two or three, and the samples settle it in your own light, in your own kitchen.

See Your Own Toronto Kitchen in a New Colour

Upload a photo of the kitchen you have. See it in the colour you are considering — past the amber, past the timber — in about half a minute.

Before — A kitchen before and after — dark cherry fronts replaced with white, on the same boxes, with the granite, mosaic backsplash and tile floor all kept — Dark cherry to white — the granite and the boxes both stayed

After — A kitchen before and after — dark cherry fronts replaced with white, on the same boxes, with the granite, mosaic backsplash and tile floor all kept — Dark cherry to white — the granite and the boxes both stayed

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1 · Your kitchen

One wide photograph to recolour, and any others you want priced. Stand back — corner to corner beats a close-up.

Choose your photos

JPEG or PNG. It is resized in your browser before it is sent.

Which photographs to send — 27-second walkthrough

2 · Your colours

Upper cabinets

Lower cabinets and island

Same colour twice for one colour throughout, or two for a two-tone. Tall pantry units follow the uppers.

Handles

Finish

The finish is what you will notice; shape is subtler at this scale. Each handle lists only the finishes it is actually made in.

3 · See it

An Oakville kitchen with dark oak cabinets, before any work — **Their kitchen** — dark oak, as photographed

A preview generated by this tool showing the same kitchen with white cabinets — **What this page produced** — a preview, in seconds

A photograph of the same kitchen after the cabinets were sprayed white — **What we delivered** — the finished job, photographed

Dark timber to a pale colour, which is the change most Toronto kitchens of a certain age are asking about. Left is the photograph as it arrived; the middle is what this tool made of it; the right is the finished work, shot from a little further back. The job happens to be in Oakville — it is the one we have all three photographs of, and we would rather show a complete set than a local one with a stage missing.

“We just had our kitchen cabinets painted, going from ebony to light green… Three minor but needed repairs were noted and were done without extra cost.”
Janice Cox, September 2025

5.0★ average across 5 Google reviews

Two kinds of kitchen, two different questions

North York is a postwar suburb that got built twice, and the two halves ask this tool completely different questions. The fifties and sixties bungalows and side-splits are still carrying original cabinetry — solid frames, real timber doors, and forty years of amber lacquer that has gone the colour of strong tea. On those, the honest question is what is actually under there, and how far a colour has to travel to get away from all that yellow.

The nineties kitchens are the opposite problem. The layout is usually sound and the fronts are a material that cannot be repaired, so the colour is a straight swap rather than a rescue — and the thing worth checking on screen is how a light front reads against the countertop and floor you are keeping. Upload whichever you have. The preview answers the question your house is actually asking.

Three ways to change your cabinets

Refacing

New doors and drawer fronts, on the boxes you already have.

Change the door style — shaker, slab, raised panel, whatever suits the room
About five days without a kitchen, while the boxes are sprayed
Four to five weeks from quote to finished install — your doors are being made for four of them
Suits boxes that are sound but doors that are dated, damaged, or the wrong style

Example from Oakville — we haven't yet photographed a Toronto refacing job start to finish.

Repainting

Your own doors, degreased, sanded and sprayed in a new colour.

Keeps the door profile you already have, in a new colour
About five days without a kitchen, while the doors are sprayed
Two and a half to three weeks from quote to finished install
Suits doors that are sound and well made — only the colour has aged

Example from Oakville — we haven't yet photographed a Toronto repainting job start to finish.

Refinishing

The grain, stripped back and shown again in a new tone.

Chemically stripped to bare timber, then sanded and stained under a clear coat
One to two weeks without a usable kitchen, while the boxes are stripped and finished
Five to seven weeks from quote to finished install
Suits solid timber worth showing, where only the finish has failed

Why homeowners in Toronto choose us

The carcasses stay, so the cost drops accordingly: Refacing and repainting both keep the boxes already on the wall and replace only what wears — the doors, the drawer fronts, the hardware, the finish. The saving is labour and disposal as much as materials, which is why either lands well under the cost of a gut renovation.
Two trades under one roof: A cabinet shop that cannot spray sends you to a painter. A painter who cannot build sends you to a cabinet shop. This crew holds both, so the new doors and the sprayed frames come from the same place rather than two contractors matching each other's work after the fact.
The quote is the price: Wide photographs of every run produce a written price inside 24 to 48 hours. It is not revised after a visit and it does not move during the job — every add-on is its own line, so you can decline one rather than renegotiate a total.
Five days without a kitchen, not five weeks: Your doors are made or your frames scheduled while your kitchen keeps working. We only start taking anything apart at the house once the material exists, which is what keeps the disruptive part to a single week.

Get a Written Quote on Your Toronto Kitchen

Your photographs go with it automatically — no need to find them again. A written price comes back inside 24 hours, itemised by door, drawer and day rate, not a single figure that moves after a visit.

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What the colour actually gets sprayed in

Whatever colour you land on, it is sprayed in two-component polyurethane — catalysed, so it cross-links rather than simply drying, and it cures hard enough to take a kitchen's daily use. The primer is tinted to match the topcoat, which is why a chip years later shows the colour underneath rather than a white scar.

Doors and drawer fronts come off and are sprayed at our shop. The boxes are sprayed in your kitchen behind full containment. You keep a working, doorless kitchen while the fronts are away.

Not sure a photograph is enough to choose from? It usually is not — a screen cannot show you how a colour behaves in your own light, which is why we bring samples to the kitchen itself before anything is committed.

Questions

Still deciding? These are the ones people ask before they upload a photo.

My cabinets are sixties timber under yellowed lacquer — is a preview any use?: That is the case it helps with most. Amber lacquer makes it very hard to picture anything pale, because everything you are looking at is filtered through forty years of yellow. Seeing your own doors rendered in a cool white or a deep navy is the fastest way to find out whether the colour you have in mind survives the change.
What about nineties fronts that cannot be repaired?: Preview them the same way. Where the fronts are a material that will not take a repair, the fronts get replaced rather than refinished — but the colour decision is identical, and it is worth checking on screen against the countertop and floor you are keeping.
Where do you work from?: The van leaves Barmac Drive at 7am. We cover North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough, and the doors come back to the shop to be sprayed rather than being coated in your kitchen.
Do you bring samples as well?: Always. Nothing is committed off a screen — a preview narrows a long list to two or three, and the samples settle it in your own light, in your own kitchen.