Lawrence Park South, Toronto

The doors go to the booth. The frames cannot, so the booth comes here.

• Sprayed Balboa Mist, kitchen and vanity
• Doors at the shop, frames sprayed on site
• Floor, layout and appliances kept

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   01

   This is the half of the job nobody photographs. The doors left ten days earlier; the frames, gables and mouldings cannot leave, so the room gets sealed and sprayed where it stands. The tape is the job — an abatement machine runs the whole time, and everything not being painted disappears under plastic first.

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   02

   The same dark wood, in a different room, on a different floor. It went on the same estimate because it was going to be the one thing left in the house that still looked like 2009 once the kitchen was done.

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   03

   One colour, two rooms, sprayed in the same run. Nobody stands in the bathroom holding a kitchen door up to the wall — which is exactly why they get done together rather than matched from memory a year apart.