City Centre, Mississauga

The kitchen went cream. The island deliberately did not.

• Repainted cream, doors and drawers in the shop and frames in the home
• Island extended by a 12-inch cabinet, then finished in a second colour
• A panel made for the dishwasher, and the vanity done in the same visit
• Counters, backsplash and appliances on no line of this estimate

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   Two colours in a kitchen this size is a nerve-holding decision, and it is the one line on the estimate that had a second colour priced separately from the first. The island reads as furniture rather than cabinetry because it is the only thing in the room that is not cream. A galley this narrow cannot afford a matching island — it would close the whole room into one block.

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   Look at the door profile here and then at the before. It is the same raised panel, in the same frames, on the same hinges. The folder this job arrived in was labelled refacing and it was not one — nothing on this kitchen was replaced except the handles. The stone and the appliances changed too, and neither is on our estimate or claimed as ours.

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   The vanity was a line on the same estimate, and this is it with its doors tagged and about to leave. There is no photograph of it finished, so there is none here. A bathroom that came back is not worth inventing a picture of, and the tags are the more useful thing to look at anyway — every door is numbered because it has to go back on the frame it came off.