A vanity is a small piece that lives in steam and splashes, so it gets the kitchen treatment of degreasing, priming and sprayed enamel, is finished inside two days, and is often booked with a kitchen.
Vanity cabinet painting is quick. The vanities in Kingston's 1970s and 1980s bungalows in Calvin Park, Polson Park and Hillendale are the same honey oak or almond melamine as the kitchens, and they date a bathroom the same way. Most of our vanity work is bundled with kitchen cabinet painting, where it adds about a day and one small line to the quote.
A vanity door is splashed daily, steamed every shower and wiped with cleaners a kitchen door never sees, so its finish needs to be tougher than average. A waterborne alkyd enamel handles it once cured, and a 2K polyurethane handles it better. Wall paint, even a bathroom wall paint, softens and peels at the bottom rail within a year. Prep matches a kitchen exactly: degrease, sand, prime for the material, spray thin coats, sand between them.
The bottom edge and the toe kick take the worst of it. Both get a full coat count and a check for old water damage before anything is painted, because swollen particleboard along the toe kick is not fixed by paint.
Doors and fronts come down at the first visit and head for the booth. The same day, the vanity box gets masked and sprayed where it stands, with the sink, taps, mirror and floor covered. Within a week the doors are back and hung in an hour. The bathroom is usable throughout, and the door-off period is the only real inconvenience.
Priced on its own, a vanity sits at the small end of any cabinet painting quote. Bundled with the kitchen, it is priced by the door like everything else and shares the setup cost.
Sage green, navy and charcoal lead the vanity requests, because a small vanity can wear a colour a whole kitchen cannot. Warm white and greige suit a bathroom with coloured tile. Brass or brushed nickel knobs finish it, and the hardware and hinge page covers the choices. A vanity in the same colour as the kitchen island ties the house together, which matters for a house going to market, and pre-sale kitchen cabinet refresh explains that bundle.
A two-door powder-room vanity, an ensuite double vanity with eight, and a laundry-room sink cabinet are all the same job at different sizes. Multiple vanities in one house get their cabinet painting in one visit, and the quote lists each one. Medicine cabinets and linen towers are sprayed with them.
Whether the vanity is alone or part of a kitchen job, the visit that prices it is free. Send the form or phone +1 (613) 706-5129 and say how many doors and drawers it has. The Kingston Cabinet Painting home page describes every other cabinet painting job we take, from kitchens to built-ins.
Whatever else in the house has doors and drawers gets prepped, primed and sprayed the same way.
Fronts leave for a booth; boxes are coated where they stand, behind containment. What returns looks factory finished, wears a new colour, and costs a fraction of replacement. Kitchen cabinet painting is how a tired kitchen gets there.
See Kitchen Cabinets
A pre-sale refresh is a painted kitchen scheduled around a listing date, in a neutral colour that photographs well, with the vanity and hardware handled in the same visit so the house is camera-ready in two to three weeks.
See Pre-Sale Refresh
Oak cabinet painting seals golden oak's tannin with a shellac primer, then fills the open grain or leaves it on show, and finishes doors and boxes in a sprayed modern colour so a 1990s kitchen looks built this year.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet spray painting runs the doors and drawer fronts through an off-site filtered booth and the boxes through sealed containment in the kitchen, the only cabinet painting method that produces a factory-smooth surface.
See Spray Painting
Two-tone work gives the island, or the whole lower run, a deep colour like navy, green or charcoal while the perimeter stays light, and an island by itself can be done as a small stand-alone job.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Melamine, laminate and thermofoil doors are slick from the factory, so their cabinet painting starts with a bonding primer and finishes with hard sprayed enamel, and it holds on any door whose surface is still tight to the board.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
In a condo galley or L-shape the fronts leave for spraying and the boxes take a single contained day indoors. The unit stays usable, and cabinet painting works around the building's rules on elevators and parking.
See Condo Kitchens
Refinishing suits good hardwood that should stay on show: stripping or sanding removes the old finish, stain follows if the colour is changing, and the grain is sealed under a sprayed clear topcoat.
See Refinishing
When the boxes are sound but the doors are not, refacing fits a full set of new doors and drawer fronts, or replaces just the few past saving, and old and new get painted together so nothing looks different.
See Refacing and New Doors
Hardware work covers filling the old handle holes, drilling fresh ones with a jig after the paint has cured, swapping slamming hinges for soft-close, and fitting knobs or pulls in brass, black or nickel.
See Hardware and Hinges
Pantries, laundry runs, mudroom lockers, bookcases, wall units and mantels are fixed in place, so their cabinet painting is done on site inside sealed containment, using the same products a kitchen gets.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
A colour consultation narrows the shortlist to two or three colours, sprays a full sample door in each, and checks them under the kitchen's real light so the finished result matches the choice.
See Colour ConsultationA visit to the house, a door count and a written quote, with no fee and nothing owed if the answer is no.
Tell us what you can about the kitchen, and we phone to arrange the visit. Sending the form takes nothing more than a name and a number. If talking is easier, the number to dial is +1 (613) 706-5129.
