Painting a bathroom vanity usually takes one or two days, and the room is back in use quickly. We treat vanity cabinet painting as a full job, with primer and enamel chosen for daily steam and splashing.
Moisture is the main enemy in a bathroom. Shower steam condenses on the vanity every morning, water drips down the doors, and many older Applewood bathrooms have a small window and a weak fan, so the air stays damp longer.
A vanity finished with ordinary wall paint usually starts to fail within a year. Wall paint stays slightly soft, so water sits on the edges and the film swells, peels or turns sticky. The bottom edge of the door nearest the tub or toilet is almost always the first spot to go.
Vanity cabinet painting follows our kitchen system step for step. Doors are degreased, scuffed and primed to suit their material, then sprayed in thin coats of cabinet enamel or two-part polyurethane. Bottom edges and door undersides get full coverage, because that is where moisture creeps in.
Oak vanities from the 1980s and 1990s are what we find most often in Applewood Heights and Rathwood bathrooms. They get shellac primer against tannin and a grain-fill decision, both explained under oak cabinet painting.
Melamine and thermofoil vanities are common in condos, townhouses and newer bathrooms. They need a bonding primer, and a thermofoil door already peeling at the bottom must be replaced rather than painted.
Original bathrooms in 1950s bungalows sometimes still have a built-in wood vanity or a painted linen cupboard. Those older painted surfaces are tested for lead before any sanding, as with the kitchen cabinets in the same houses.
One vanity on its own is normally priced in the low hundreds. It costs even less as part of a kitchen booking, because travel and setup are already paid for.
A new vanity means a new top, a new faucet, a plumber and often tile repair around the base. When the box is solid, vanity cabinet painting gives a fresh look for a small part of that cost. Houses with two or three bathrooms often book all the vanities together, sometimes with the laundry cabinets as well, which pantry and laundry cabinets covers.
Cabinet enamel feels dry within hours but takes weeks to reach full hardness. A bathroom tests it harder than a kitchen, because the doors are wet every day.
For the first week or two, run the fan during and after showers and wipe off splashes instead of leaving them. We fit the handles last, after the finish has firmed up, so they do not leave marks.
Powder rooms and basement bathrooms often have the smallest vanities in the house, and they are frequently the most dated. A basement bathroom added in the 1980s may still have its original oak or melamine vanity.
Small vanities are fast and combine well with other rooms. Adding them to a kitchen or main bath booking means vanity cabinet painting for the whole house happens in one trip. Each vanity sits on a separate cabinet painting quote line, so you can drop any of them.
A single vanity can be booked on its own or added to a kitchen. Send us a photo and the size and we will get back to you with a time for the free visit. Call +1 (289) 206-9979, send the details or look at our other services.
Bathroom vanities, pantry cupboards, laundry cabinets and basement bars in side-splits get the kitchen's primer and enamel.
We unhang every door and drawer front, strip off the grease, scuff and prime it to suit its material, spray on a tough enamel and put it back up. Kitchen cabinet painting recolours the whole room while counters, sink and flooring stay exactly as they are.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Original bungalow kitchens are small, closed rooms with solid wood or plywood cabinets that have often been painted several times already. Cabinet painting in these houses starts with the old layers, because what is under the top coat decides how the job is done.
See Bungalows
Oak lets brown tannin seep up through water-based primer, and its open grain telegraphs through colour unless it gets filled. So the first coat in oak cabinet painting is always a shellac-based primer that seals the tannin in.
See Oak Cabinets
With refinishing, the worn topcoat comes off by stripping or sanding, new stain balances the colour, and a sprayed clear layer protects the wood. It is our pick over paint when the timber is the most attractive feature of the kitchen.
See Refinishing
Spray equipment breaks the enamel into a fine mist that settles into one even film, with no brush lines or roller texture. That is the difference between cabinet painting that looks factory-made and a finish that looks homemade.
See Spray Painting
Shiny factory doors call for a bonding primer built to stick to slick faces, since an ordinary one just lets go. Sound melamine and laminate accept cabinet painting well, while thermofoil that has started lifting needs stripping or replacing first.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
With refacing, fresh doors and drawer fronts go onto the boxes you already have, and the frames are sprayed to match them. We can also swap just one or two damaged doors and finish them with everything else during cabinet painting, so the fix blends in.
See Refacing and New Doors
Two-tone cabinet painting puts one colour on the uppers and a deeper one on the lowers or the island. Plenty of people paint only the island, which is usually the simplest way to give the room a fresh centrepiece.
See Two-Tone and Islands
A condo galley usually has ten to fifteen doors and turns around quickly. Condo cabinet work depends on planning the elevator booking, the parking and the odour control with the building before any work starts.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry cupboards, laundry cabinets, closet doors, bookcases and rec room bars go through the same steps as a kitchen. Since nearly all of them are fastened to walls, they are coated where they stand inside a plastic enclosure.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
We plug old knob holes until they disappear under the new colour and bore new ones through a jig so pulls line up exactly. While doors are off for cabinet painting, worn hinges are replaced with soft-close hinges.
See Hardware and Hinges
Our most requested shades are white, cream, greige, sage, navy and charcoal, but a tiny paper swatch rarely predicts how any of them will look at home. Our cabinet painting colour process sprays one of your real doors and leaves it with you for a few days.
See Colour ConsultationWe come out, count every opening, name the material and put the job in writing, free of charge.
Any detail helps, from door style to the year the house went up. We will call to pick a time, and only a name and phone number are required. If you would rather talk, call +1 (289) 206-9979.
