Stoney Creek, Hamilton

A brush leaves a line in every groove, and this kitchen is mostly grooves.

• Doors and drawer fronts refinished in the shop
• Frames, panels and the island sprayed in the home
• Counters, floor and layout untouched

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   Glass fronts, arched panels, and an island panelled in beadboard to the floor. Count the edges — every one of those grooves is a place a brush stops and starts. Spraying is not about speed here, it is the only way the film thickness comes out the same everywhere.

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   Tags on the drawer boxes before a single one comes out. Doors and fronts go to the booth and the frames get sprayed here, which means two halves of one kitchen are in two places for about ten days — the tags are what makes them one kitchen again.

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   White where it was cream, and nothing else moved. The counters are the same speckled laminate, the floor is the same tile, the glass fronts are the same glass. This kitchen did not need replacing — it needed the one thing about it that had dated to stop being cream.