Strip. Sand. Prime. Topcoat. Premium Renner and Envirolak coatings with hardener additives. A factory-grade finish on your existing cabinets, in your kitchen, in five to seven days.
Cabinet refinishing in North Bay typically costs $1,800 to $6,500, depending on the number of doors, drawers, and the existing cabinet condition. North Bay Painting Services strips, sands, primes, and topcoats your existing kitchen, bathroom, or built-in cabinets using Renner and Envirolak — two of the highest-quality coating systems on the market, applied with hardener additives that significantly outperform retail-grade paint for durability and chemical resistance. Available across a 45-mile radius from North Bay, including Callander, Corbeil, Astorville, Sturgeon Falls, Powassan, and Mattawa. Every refinish is fully bonded, insured, and WSIB covered, and backed by a 1-year written warranty. Owned and operated by Ahmed Khalil, owner and lead painter.
The difference between a cabinet refinish that lasts 10 years and one that chips in 18 months is the prep system. We don't skip steps to lower the price.
Every door, drawer front, and panel removed and numbered. Diagram of every cabinet for reinstall.
Hinges, pulls, knobs removed and bagged. We can swap to new hardware on reinstall — bring your own or use ours.
Existing finish stripped completely. Solid wood sanded to bare. Melamine and laminate scuffed for adhesion.
Kitchens trap years of cooking grease. Every surface gets a degreaser-and-rinse pass before any primer touches it.
Renner or Envirolak bonding primer — formulated to grip melamine, oak, and previously-painted cabinets.
Renner conversion varnish or Envirolak water-based topcoat with hardener. Sprayed in our shop, not brushed on-site.
Doors back on, drawers back in, hardware mounted. Every door checked for level, swing, and clearance.
Chipping, peeling, or premature failure on our workmanship — we come back and fix it. Written, signed.
Whole kitchens, single vanities, built-ins, two-tone treatments. We finish whatever you can take a door off of.
Whole-kitchen refinishes — uppers, lowers, pantries, islands. Full strip-and-spray with Renner or Envirolak.
Single, double, and floor-to-ceiling vanities. Tight tolerance for plumbing — we mask and protect every fixture.
Library shelves, mudroom lockers, entertainment units, home office built-ins. Same factory finish as kitchens.
Boxes still look fine? We refinish just the doors and drawer fronts in our shop and reinstall in 5 days.
Replacing your doors? We refinish the existing boxes to match the new doors so the whole kitchen ties together.
New pulls, knobs, hinges installed during refinish. We help you spec the right size for the door style and bore.
Uppers in white, lowers in navy. Or island in a contrasting accent. Two finishes, one mobilization.
Removing upper doors and refinishing the visible interior + shelves for an open-shelf modern kitchen look.
Every estimate is free and on-site. We count every door, drawer, and panel — no guesses.
Ranges reflect 2026 North Bay market pricing for full strip-and-spray refinishes with Renner or Envirolak. Heavily damaged cabinets, non-standard substrates (thermofoil, MDF panels), and intricate raised-panel doors sit at the upper end.
Get Your Free On-Site EstimateSame process whether it's a galley kitchen or a chef's island.
Count doors, drawers, panels. Photograph every cabinet. Pick colour direction and finish.
Fixed-price written estimate within 24 hours. Door count, finish system, schedule, hardware.
Doors, drawers, hardware removed and labelled. Doors go to our shop. Boxes stay in place.
In-shop spray booth: strip existing finish, sand smooth, bonding primer, sand again before topcoat.
Two coats of Renner conversion varnish or Envirolak water-based with catalyst. Cures rock-hard.
Doors back on, hardware mounted, every door checked for level. 1-year written warranty issued.
Cabinet failures happen because retail-grade paint can't survive a kitchen — grease, steam, hot pots, soft-close drawers slamming. We use industrial coatings designed for the job.
Renner is an industrial cabinet coating system used in high-end kitchen factories worldwide. The conversion varnish uses a hardener catalyst that cross-links the topcoat into a finish nearly as hard as a factory-finished door. Excellent for high-traffic kitchens with kids and pets.
Envirolak is a Canadian-made water-based conversion coating with hardener — a furniture-grade alternative to solvent-based lacquer. Low odour, fast cure, excellent for kitchens where the homeowner wants to stay in the home during the work.
Bundle cabinet work with the projects below and we'll schedule them back-to-back — same crew, single mobilization, one quote.
Faster, lower-cost option that scuff-sands instead of stripping. Use when boxes are sound and the existing finish is intact.
Learn more →New doors and drawer fronts installed over your existing boxes. The kitchen-renovation tier — premium upgrade for older boxes.
Learn more →Pair the cabinet refinish with a kitchen-walls repaint. New cabinets against fresh walls is a true full-kitchen transformation.
Learn more →Older kitchens often have wallpaper from the 1990s above the backsplash. We strip, skim, and repaint as part of the project.
Learn more →North Bay Painting Services covers cabinet projects across a 45-mile radius from North Bay, including all 17 communities below. Cottage kitchen cabinet refinishes along Lake Nipissing, Trout Lake, Lake Nosbonsing, Callander Bay, and the Mattawa River are a specialty — most cottage kitchens still have the original 1980s oak we can transform in a week.
A selection of what North Bay homeowners have said about our cabinet work.
Refinished our 1990s oak kitchen — 22 doors, 8 drawers — into a soft-grey factory-flat finish using Envirolak. The crew was in and out in six days, the kitchen looks like a $40K reno, and we paid less than $5K. Worth every penny.
Two-tone — uppers in white, lowers in navy. Renner conversion varnish on both. After 18 months of two kids and a dog the finish is identical to the day they left. No chips, no peeling. Hardest cabinet finish we've ever had.
Cottage kitchen on Trout Lake. We had old laminate cabinets we figured needed full replacement. Ahmed showed us how Envirolak bonds to laminate. Saved us $20K vs. new boxes and the cottage kitchen looks brand new.
Still have one? Call (705) 482-1142 any time.
Free on-site estimate. We count every door, drawer, and panel — then give you a fixed-price written quote within 24 hours.