A single vanity needs a day or two of our time, which makes it the least disruptive cabinet painting job we offer. Its doors travel to our booth, we spray the base where it sits, and the bathroom is ready again soon after.
Bathrooms are steamy, so a vanity gets tougher coatings than a bedroom closet door would. Lots of Meadowvale bathrooms have a small fan and no window, which makes the choice of coating matter even more.
Put wall paint on a vanity and you will likely be redoing it by next year. It never cures hard, drips sit on the top rails, and the film blisters, usually low on whichever door is nearest the tub.
We give a vanity the full cabinet painting process. That means shellac or bonding primer depending on the surface, then enamel or two-part polyurethane in light coats with sanding between. Small jobs get the same care as big ones.
Bathroom edges get extra care. Water sneaks in at the bottom rail and the underside of each door, so we fully coat both instead of leaving raw wood there.
A powder room vanity is small and sees little steam, so it is a quick cabinet painting job with few special needs. An ensuite vanity is different. It often has a double sink, a long top and doors that take splashes twice a day.
We look at how each bathroom is used before choosing the topcoat. A busy family bathroom usually gets the harder two-part polyurethane, while a quiet powder room can take a waterborne enamel. Both choices are written on the quote.
Oak vanities from the 1980s turn up all over Meadowvale West. Oak needs shellac for tannin and a decision about grain filling, both explained on our oak page.
Older 1970s bathrooms often have a dark vanity with the same routed doors as the kitchen, or a printed wood-grain face. Lisgar and Meadowvale Village homes from the 1990s and 2000s tend to have melamine, thermofoil or painted MDF. Each gets the primer its surface calls for before cabinet painting begins. As in a kitchen, a thermofoil vanity door that is peeling at the corner has to be replaced.
Cabinet painting one vanity alone is normally a few hundred dollars. Tacked onto a kitchen, it costs even less, because the drive, the setup and the masking are already covered.
A replacement vanity means a new cabinet, a countertop, a faucet and a plumber's bill, which easily totals several times our price. If the base is sturdy and the doors are sound, paint is the better use of the money.
Many two-story homes here have an ensuite, a main bathroom and a powder room, so booking all three vanities at once is common. So is a vanity plus the laundry cupboards, which our pantry and laundry page covers.
Kitchen doors are touched often but seldom get soaked. Vanity doors get splashed, wiped and steamed every morning, which is tough on new paint.
Waterborne enamel needs about a week before regular use and roughly a month to harden fully. For the first few days after cabinet painting, run the fan longer and keep showers short. It is a small price for a finish that holds up.
Knobs and pulls go on last. Tightening hardware onto soft paint leaves a mark, so we wait until the coating is ready.
We are happy to do either. A single vanity gets its own small cabinet painting quote, and adding one to a kitchen booking costs less than a separate trip later. Phone +1 (289) 206-9922, send a photo and measurements, or see our home page.
Backsplit bathrooms, laundry rooms, mudroom lockers and rec room bars get the coatings we trust in kitchens.
We take your doors and drawer fronts down, clean off the grease, sand them, prime them for their material and spray a hard enamel before hanging them again. Kitchen cabinet painting recolours the entire room while your counters, tile and sink stay untouched.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Dark stain, slab doors with routed grooves and printed wood-grain fronts all accept new colour once the grease and old gloss are gone. On a kitchen this age, cabinet painting is mostly careful prep, and that prep decides how long the finish lasts.
See 70s and 80s Kitchens
Oak brings two problems to the job that maple and MDF do not. Tannin in the wood stains through water-based primer, and deep grain lines show through cabinet painting unless they are filled flat first.
See Oak Cabinets
Some cabinets have wood that deserves to be seen. Refinishing takes the worn finish off, evens out the colour with new stain and seals it with a sprayed clear coat, so the grain stays in view instead of disappearing under paint.
See Refinishing
Spraying puts the coating on as a fine mist that levels itself before it dries, so there are no brush lines left behind. With a sprayer, cabinet painting comes out looking like it left a factory, not a hobby bench.
See Spray Painting
Melamine, laminate and thermofoil are slick by design, so cabinet painting on them depends on a bonding primer built to grip plastic surfaces. Sound doors finish beautifully, while vinyl already curling away from its board is past saving.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
With refacing, fresh doors and drawer fronts are hung on your current cabinet boxes and the frames are finished to suit. If just one door is ruined, we swap that one out and spray it with the others during cabinet painting so nobody can tell.
See Refacing and New Doors
Soft white or greige on top with sage, navy or charcoal below is the combination we are asked about most, and the island usually gets the darker shade. Painting an island by itself also counts as a full cabinet painting job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Most condo kitchens hold between ten and twenty doors, which means the spraying is quick once building approvals are in place. Cabinet painting in a condo townhouse or apartment runs smoothly only when parking, work hours and smell are planned ahead.
See Condo Kitchens
Laundry uppers, pantry cupboards, bench-and-locker units by the garage door, bookcases and fireplace built-ins all go through the primer and sprayed enamel your kitchen gets. Because nearly all of them are attached to the house, cabinet painting for these rooms happens on site behind plastic.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Leftover knob holes get plugged and filled flush, and every new pull is bored through a jig so the whole row sits straight. Tired hinges get replaced during the same window, since cabinet painting already has the doors off.
See Hardware and Hinges
Meadowvale kitchens we quote mostly end up in one of six shades: sage, greige, cream, warm white, charcoal or navy. A little paper chip under store lights cannot show how any of them behaves in your room, so one of your own doors gets sprayed in the shade you like and propped up in the kitchen before any cabinet painting goes on the calendar.
See Colour ConsultationWe drop by, count doors and drawers, check the wood or board underneath and spell out the work in a written quote. No charge for any of it.
Jot down anything you know about the cupboards, and we will call to choose a day. A name and a number are all it takes. Want to talk right now? Call +1 (289) 206-9922.
