Total Renovations provides complete cabinet refinishing, painting and restoration services using commercial spray equipment, professional-grade coatings and a meticulous preparation process designed to make every finish perform as well as it looks.
Kitchen Cabinet Refinishing
Kitchen cabinet refinishing is our most popular service — and the most impactful transformation available per dollar spent on any kitchen improvement. Our kitchen cabinet refinishing process covers every painted or stained cabinet surface in your kitchen: upper cabinets, lower cabinets, island cabinets, and pantry cabinets — all doors, all drawer fronts, and all exposed cabinet box faces. Each surface is thoroughly cleaned and degreased to remove years of cooking residue and grease film that would cause adhesion failure in an insufficiently prepared finish. We scuff-sand all surfaces to create mechanical adhesion, apply a shellac or adhesion-promoting primer specifically formulated for the substrate type, and spray two topcoats of our professional cabinet coating system in your chosen colour and sheen. Doors and drawer fronts are removed and refinished in a controlled spray environment to ensure drip-free, edge-to-edge coverage. Cabinet boxes are masked and sprayed in place. The completed kitchen cabinet refinishing result is a smooth, durable, brush-mark-free finish that is indistinguishable from new factory cabinetry.
Cabinet Restoration
Cabinet restoration goes a step further than standard cabinet refinishing — addressing cosmetic damage to cabinet surfaces before the finish coat is applied. For homeowners whose cabinets have minor surface damage — small chips, nicks, edge wear, or hairline crazes in the existing finish — cabinet restoration includes surface filling and levelling to correct these imperfections before refinishing begins. The result is not just a colour change but a genuinely restored cabinet surface that conceals years of accumulated wear under a fresh, smooth, durable finish. Cabinet restoration is particularly well-suited for families with older wood-veneer or MDF cabinet doors where finish wear is concentrated at high-touch areas — door pulls, edge banding, and drawer fronts — but the underlying cabinet structure remains solid. We assess restoration feasibility and recommend the correct approach for your cabinets' specific condition during the free consultation, and include all restoration work in the fixed-price quote.
Bathroom Cabinet Refinishing
Bathroom cabinets — vanity cabinets, linen cabinets, and medicine cabinet doors — are frequently overlooked in renovation budgets, yet bathroom cabinet refinishing delivers the same dramatic transformation as kitchen refinishing at an even more accessible price point. A fresh coat of professionally sprayed finish on dated oak or maple bathroom vanity cabinets, updated from the original honey oak stain to a crisp warm white or sophisticated sage green, transforms the entire character of a bathroom for $400–$1,200 depending on the number of cabinet pieces involved. Total Renovations provides professional bathroom cabinet refinishing using moisture-resistant coating formulations appropriate for the elevated humidity environment that bathroom cabinets experience — ensuring the finish performs durably in conditions that standard interior coatings are not designed to handle. Whether refinishing a single ensuite vanity or a complete suite of bathroom cabinets throughout the home, we deliver every bathroom cabinet refinishing project under a fixed price with the same workmanship standard as our kitchen refinishing work.
Two-Tone Cabinet Refinishing
Two-tone cabinet refinishing — a contrasting colour on the lower cabinets and a different, typically lighter, colour on the upper cabinets — is one of the most popular kitchen design trends among homeowners, and one of the refinishing approaches that most dramatically updates the look of a dated kitchen. A classic two-tone combination might pair a warm white or light grey on upper cabinets with a deeper navy, sage green, or charcoal on the lower cabinets and island — creating a layered, contemporary kitchen aesthetic that is genuinely design-forward without the cost of a full kitchen renovation. Total Renovations delivers two-tone cabinet refinishing with the same precision and finish quality as single-colour projects: both colours are sprayed to the same factory-quality standard, masking between the two colour zones is crisp and clean, and the visual effect of the completed two-tone refinishing is cohesive and intentional. We review two-tone colour combinations with homeowners at the free consultation, using physical colour samples in your home's natural light and your specific countertop and flooring context to ensure the chosen combination works perfectly in your specific kitchen.
Stained Cabinet Refinishing
Many kitchens — particularly those with 1990s and early 2000s cabinetry — feature natural wood-stained cabinets in honey oak, golden maple, or dark cherry that were popular in those eras and now look unmistakably dated. Converting stained wood cabinets to a painted finish is one of the most dramatic transformation refinishing projects available — and one that requires specific preparation steps to ensure the painted finish adheres properly over the original stain and to prevent wood tannins from bleeding through into the topcoat. Total Renovations uses a shellac-based tannin-blocking primer as the first coat on all stained wood cabinet refinishing projects, followed by an adhesion-promoting coat and then the topcoat finish system. This preparation sequence ensures the final painted finish is completely stable — no bleed-through, no adhesion failure, no finish failure even on high-tannin species like oak and cherry. The completed conversion from dated wood stain to a fresh painted finish creates the single most dramatic visual transformation available in cabinet refinishing, consistently drawing comments from homeowners that their refinished kitchen looks "completely brand new."
Cabinet Hardware Replacement
Cabinet hardware — knobs, pulls, and hinges — is often the visual detail that most quickly dates a kitchen, and replacing hardware as part of a cabinet refinishing project delivers the complete kitchen transformation that a colour change alone cannot. Total Renovations offers hardware replacement as an add-on service to every cabinet refinishing project: supply and installation of new pulls, knobs, and soft-close hinges in styles ranging from contemporary bar pulls and cup handles to more traditional knob styles. New hardware is installed after the refinishing is complete, ensuring finish integrity at every hole and mounting point. For homeowners upgrading from builder-grade hardware to premium brushed gold, matte black, or satin nickel pulls, the hardware upgrade alongside the cabinet refinishing delivers the most complete kitchen transformation possible without touching countertops, appliances, or flooring. We present hardware options and pricing at the free consultation and include hardware supply and installation in the fixed-price quote when requested.
