Markham Village, Markham

The doors came in a colour no paint chart sells. Everything that stayed was sprayed to match them.

• Cashmere Grey thermofoil, shaker
• Black bar pulls, old holes filled
• Granite, backsplash and floor kept

1. 

   01

   The client wrote it on the panel themselves. New doors were coming, but the peninsula end panel, the gables and the frames were staying — and a new door beside an old panel is worse than leaving both alone. That note is the job in three words.

2. 

   02

   The sample gets laid on the counter that is staying, not held up in a showroom. Cashmere Grey is a manufactured door finish, so there is no tin of it — matching paint to it is done from the sample, on the kitchen's own granite, in the kitchen's own light.

3. 

   03

   One door hung against the old ones. This is the moment the match is either right or wrong, and it is checked before the rest go up — because the sprayed panels have to sit against these doors for years.