Painting a bathroom vanity takes a day or two: its doors, drawer fronts and box get the full kitchen prep and a sprayed enamel that tolerates steam, at a fraction of a kitchen's size and price.
Most London bathrooms carry the same builder vanity as the kitchen they came with: golden oak in the 1980s bungalows of Westmount and White Oaks, honey maple or thermofoil in the 1990s and 2000s houses of Hyde Park and Masonville. The vanity is often the first thing painted and the easiest place to see what a sprayed finish looks like before committing to kitchen cabinet painting.
A bathroom vanity lives in steam. Every shower raises the humidity to the point where a soft finish stays tacky, water sits on the top edge of the doors, and toothpaste and hand soap land on the drawer fronts daily. Wall paint peels off a vanity within a year for those reasons, and so does a brushed enamel that never fully cured.
Vanity cabinet painting answers that with a full degrease, a primer suited to the substrate, and a sprayed two-part polyurethane or waterborne enamel that cures into a sealed, wipeable shell. The top edges and the bottom rail, where water collects, get the same number of coats as the face. The fan runs during the on-site work and the doors come back only when they are hard.
The first visit removes the doors and drawer fronts for the booth, then degreases, sands, primes and sprays the vanity box where it stands, inside a plastic enclosure. Over the next few days the doors get their coats and harden in the booth, and the second visit hangs them. Six doors and four drawers on a double vanity still fit in two days. A two-door powder room vanity needs one visit and one short return.
The bathroom is usable throughout, since the sink and toilet are untouched and only the cabinet is masked. The finish wants a week of gentle use before wet towels are draped over it.
Painting a vanity costs least when the kitchen is being painted anyway. Its doors ride to the booth in the same load as the kitchen doors, its box gets sprayed the day the kitchen boxes do, and no extra trip is needed. Tacking three vanities onto a kitchen cabinet painting job comes out cheaper than one vanity booked alone, and because the vanity sits on its own line of the quote, it can be kept or dropped.
On its own, a vanity is priced by door and drawer count, in the same $130 to $250 per door market range that Ontario cabinet painting follows, with a small-job minimum that the written quote states plainly.
A vanity gets away with colours a kitchen cannot. Navy, forest green, charcoal and even black sit well in a small bathroom against white tile and a pale counter, finished with a brass or matte black pull. New pulls often need new holes, which are filled and drilled as part of the job, and the hardware page covers the choices.
Whether it is one vanity or all of them, alone or bundled with the kitchen, send the form or call +1 (226) 271-3465 with the door count. The London Cabinet Painting home page shows the kitchen and cabinet painting work a vanity usually rides along with.
Whatever the cabinet, vanity, pantry, island or built-in, the prep, primer and sprayed enamel match what the kitchen received.
Kitchen cabinet painting keeps the kitchen you have: doors, drawer fronts and boxes are each prepped to suit their material, then sprayed with a hard enamel in a fresh colour, for far less than replacing anything.
See Kitchen Cabinets
A spray gun lays hard enamel onto cabinet doors in thin, even passes that a brush cannot match, leaving a factory-smooth surface with no ridges, stroke marks or drips where grease can gather or chips can start.
See Spray Painting
Refinishing suits cabinets built from wood too good to hide. Stripping or sanding removes the tired old finish, a new stain goes on if a different colour is wanted, and a hard clear coat locks the grain in.
See Refinishing
Golden oak from the 1980s becomes a current painted kitchen through oak cabinet painting: tannins get sealed under a shellac primer, the open grain gets filled or stays on show, and a hard sprayed enamel goes over top.
See Oak Cabinets
Slick factory surfaces such as thermofoil, melamine and laminate shed ordinary paint, so this kind of cabinet painting starts with an adhesion primer that grips them, followed by a sprayed enamel topcoat that holds for years.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Refacing hangs brand-new doors and drawer fronts on cabinet boxes still worth keeping, or replaces a lone damaged door, after which every piece is sprayed at once so the whole kitchen reads as one matched set.
See Refacing and New Doors
A two-tone kitchen sets a light painted perimeter against an island done in stained wood, charcoal, green or navy, and the island can be done as part of the whole kitchen or sprayed by itself as its own small job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Condo kitchen cabinet painting suits a galley with somewhere between ten and fifteen doors, respects the building's rules on hours, elevators and parking, and sends the doors away to the booth so the suite remains livable while the work is done.
See Condo Kitchens
Rental property cabinet painting gives landlords a durable, sprayed, wipe-clean kitchen finish between tenants, priced per unit and scheduled around move-out dates, with hardware and hinge fixes done at the same visit.
See Rental Properties
Tall pantries, laundry and mudroom cabinets, wall units, bookcases and fireplace mantels are built into the house, so instead of going to a booth they get sprayed in position behind sealed plastic, using the same hard enamel a kitchen gets.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Hardware and hinge work rides along with a painted kitchen: abandoned handle holes get filled and sanded smooth, a drilling template places the new ones, soft-close hinges replace the tired originals, and the metal finish is picked to suit the colour.
See Hardware and Hinges
Colour and sheen get settled before any cabinet painting begins, on full-size sample doors sprayed in the actual product and left standing in the actual kitchen, with the colour matched from whichever paint deck the owner prefers.
See Colour ConsultationSomeone comes out, counts doors, checks the material and writes up the quote. There is no fee for the visit and nothing to sign.
Give us whatever you know about the kitchen, and a call comes back to arrange a time. A name plus a phone number gets the form through. To skip the form and talk it over, call +1 (226) 271-3465.
