Choosing a cabinet finish is almost as important as choosing the material your cabinet is built from. The right cabinet finish can help your cabinet resist moisture, heat, warping, and damage—all while matching the style of the room your cabinets are in.

At True Millwork, we offer a wide variety of cabinet finishes. Our finishes include:

Cabinet Stains for Natural Wood Cabinets
Lacquer Cabinets
Laminate Finished Cabinets
Painted Cabinets

These finishes come in high gloss, medium gloss, matte, satin, and more. They’re all beautiful, durable, and made to withstand repeated use—just like our custom cabinets are. Here’s a more detailed look at the advantages of each of our cabinet finishes:

Our Cabinet Finishes

Lacquered HDF Doors

Looking for highly durable, sleek, stylish, and modern cabinet doors? Our lacquered HDF doors may be the perfect fit. They offer a number of different advantages:

They’re incredibly durable, resisting scratches, chips, moisture, and warping.
They’re available in a wide selection of different colours.
They come in a number of different finishes, from glossy to matte.
They’re incredibly easy to clean.
Thanks to the colour and finish customization option, they can work in almost any room, with almost any style of hardware—or even with handleless, push-to-open designs.

We love lacquered doors for bathrooms and kitchens, thanks to their high moisture resistance.

Melamine

For a cost-effective, durable finish for your cabinets, it’s hard to beat melamine. There are several advantages to melamine cabinets. They:

Are among the most affordable cabinet finishes
Offer excellent resistance to scratches, stains, and moisture
Come in a wide variety of colours
Come in a range of finishes, from matte to glossy
Are easy to clean with little more than a damp cloth and mild detergent

Much like lacquered HDF doors, we like melamine finishes in bathrooms and kitchens. You should be aware that melamine doors are heavier than lacquered doors, however, and that they’re slightly more prone to chipping.

Paint

Painted cabinets are a classic. Paint is incredibly versatile, and can be applied to solid wood, fibreboard, and other styles of cabinet. Paint is also available in basically any colour that you could imagine—and in quite a few colours you may have never heard of. Here are some of the many advantages of using paint:

You’ll end up with a uniform, seamless, smooth surface.
You can match paint to basically any aesthetic.
Paint works with any cabinet material, from natural wood cabinets to MDF and HDF cabinets.
Paint can easily be touched up, extending the life of your cabinets.
You can get any colour you’d like.
With satin paint, gloss paint, semi-gloss paint, matte paint, and more, you can get virtually any finish you want.
Water-resistant, heat-resistant, and other durable paints are widely available.

We love the look, feel, and versatility of painted cabinets; they can be used practically anywhere in a home or business. They do require slightly more maintenance and retouching than other cabinet finishes, but for many of our clients, that extra effort is well worth the results

Solid Wood

Natural cabinets are all the rage recently, and there’s nothing that fits the bill better than natural wood. By showcasing the natural beauty of the wood grain, solid wood cabinets with a simple varnish or wood stain offer a timeless, classic aesthetic. Here are some of the advantages of solid wood cabinets:

They’re incredibly durable; solid wood cabinets can last for decades.
You can sand, stain, paint, and refinish wood cabinets to extend their lifespan or even change their look.
They can be customized with a huge variety of different wood species, stains, and other finishes.
They work as kitchen cabinets, in bathrooms, in bedrooms, and just about anywhere else you could want cabinets.
They’re eco-friendly.
Many home buyers love solid wood cabinets—they’re a great way to boost the value of your home if you’re looking to sell.

Natural wood cabinets require more maintenance than other types of cabinets; they need to be properly sealed and resealed. They’re also heavier than some other types of cabinetry, so the doors and drawers will require more durable hardware.

We offer a wide variety of different wood cabinet stains; these wood stain options let the wood grain shine through—all while coordinating the colour of your cabinets with the rest of your room.