Most vanities take one or two days, and no job we do is easier to live around. The doors are sprayed at the shop, the base is sprayed on site, and after cabinet painting the bathroom is back in service fast.
Most East Credit houses built in the 1990s have two or three bathrooms, and the vanities were ordered in the same oak or maple as the kitchen. Once the kitchen is painted, those vanities look older than they did before.
Ordinary wall paint on a vanity gives out within about a year. It stays soft, puddles sit on the flat top edges, and the film blisters and flakes, usually first along the lower rail beside the tub.
A vanity gets every step of our kitchen cabinet painting process, starting with shellac or bonding primer to suit the material and finishing with thin sprayed coats of waterborne enamel or two-part urethane. Being a small job does not mean a shortcut.
Edges need extra care on a vanity. Water finds its way in at the lower rail and under each door, so we coat those out-of-sight faces completely.
Oak and honey maple vanities from the 1990s are the most common vanity cabinet painting jobs here. They need a shellac-based primer, and oak needs the grain decision, both covered on the oak cabinet painting page.
The newer Heartland houses and many finished basements have thermofoil or melamine vanities. Cabinet painting on these starts with a grip-coat primer, and any thermofoil door lifting at a bottom corner is past painting, exactly as it would be in a kitchen.
Many primary ensuites in the larger houses have a double vanity with a tall linen tower. That counts as a bigger job and is priced by the number of doors and drawers.
A single vanity by itself usually costs a few hundred dollars for cabinet painting. Paired with a kitchen, it costs less, since setup, masking and the drive are already paid for.
Replacing it outright, with a countertop, faucet and plumber's bill, runs several times higher. With a square base and healthy doors, cabinet painting simply makes more sense.
Painting two or three vanities in one booking happens often, and so is pairing a vanity with the laundry cabinets. Those extra rooms are explained under pantry, laundry and built-in cabinet painting.
Kitchen doors get handled constantly but seldom get wet. Vanity doors get splashed and steamed daily, which is tough on a coating that is still curing.
Waterborne enamel wants about seven days before everyday use and nearly four weeks before it is fully hard. Running the exhaust fan and taking quicker showers for the first few days makes a real difference.
Hardware goes on last. A handle tightened onto soft paint leaves a permanent print, so the knobs and pulls wait until the film is hard enough.
Each bathroom is out of use only while its vanity base is sprayed and drying. In a house with several bathrooms, we stagger the rooms so at least one is always open.
That matters in a large household. Cabinet painting on two or three vanities over a few days is common, and the schedule is set with you before work begins.
Both options work. A lone vanity is priced as a small cabinet painting job, and bundling it with the kitchen saves a separate trip. Call +1 (365) 217-9589, send us a photo and measurements, or browse our other services.
Ensuite vanities, laundry uppers, pantry towers and wall units are primed and topcoated just like the kitchen.
Kitchen cabinet painting gives a tired 1990s kitchen a fresh colour and a tough sprayed coat, and the boxes, countertop and sink never leave the wall. Each door is cleaned, scuffed, primed to suit its wood and sprayed before it is rehung.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Arched cathedral doors can be painted as they are, filled to a square top, or swapped for flat shaker doors while the rest of the kitchen is painted. Cabinet painting on these doors starts with one decision about the curve, and we price every option at the visit.
See Cathedral Doors
Oak cabinet painting needs a stain-blocking primer because oak tannin bleeds brown through water-based products. The open grain also telegraphs through paint unless it is filled level before the topcoats go on.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet refinishing removes the old clear coat by sanding or stripping, refreshes the stain tone and locks the colour in under a fresh sprayed clear topcoat. We recommend it instead of paint whenever the grain is the best feature in the room.
See Refinishing
A spray gun breaks the coating into tiny droplets that flow together and level before they set, leaving no brush lines or roller stipple. Cabinet painting applied this way looks much like a finish from a cabinet factory.
See Spray Painting
Shiny factory doors keep paint only when a purpose-made bonding primer goes on first and the surface itself is still firmly attached. Cabinet painting does well on solid melamine and firmly bonded thermofoil, but a vinyl skin that is already lifting is past saving with a coating.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Refacing hangs brand-new doors and drawer fronts on the carcasses already in your kitchen, while door replacement swaps only the few doors that are damaged or out of style. Both are often paired with cabinet painting so the new and old parts finish in one matching colour.
See Refacing and New Doors
Light uppers over darker lowers, or a painted perimeter with a contrasting island, are the two-tone layouts people ask for most. A lone island is a full cabinet painting job in its own right and one of the quickest ways to change a room.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Condo and townhouse kitchens are small, usually ten to twenty doors, and the job moves quickly once the building rules are sorted out. Cabinet painting in a shared complex works best when parking, work hours and noise are planned first.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantry cupboards, laundry uppers, mudroom lockers, family room wall units and bookcases receive the primer and sprayed enamel the kitchen does. Since most are fastened in place, their cabinet painting happens on site inside a plastic tent.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Leftover knob holes are plugged and filled so the new colour hides them completely, and new holes for pulls are bored off a jig so each handle sits level. Tired hinges get swapped during cabinet painting, since the doors are down anyway.
See Hardware and Hinges
Paint chips under store lights are a poor guide, so we spray one of your actual doors in your favourite candidate shade and leave it standing in the room. The shades we are asked for most in cabinet painting right now are warm white, cream, greige, sage and deep green.
See Colour ConsultationWe visit, tally each door and drawer, identify the material and list the whole job on paper. Neither the visit nor the quote costs you anything.
Share any cabinet details you have handy, and we will call to book a time. The form goes through with just a name and a number. To talk it over by phone, call +1 (365) 217-9589.
