One or two days for a single vanity, with the same degreasing, sanding and hard sprayed topcoat a kitchen gets. Wet rooms punish soft coatings, so a wall paint on a vanity is never the right answer.
A vanity is the smallest job on our list and often the first one a household books. It is also the best test of a colour, because a whole vanity in a real sheen tells an owner far more than a sample card does. Plenty of kitchens here began as a small vanity cabinet painting job that went well.
Why Bathroom Cabinet Painting Needs A Harder Film Than A Bedroom Wall
Bathrooms cycle between dry and saturated several times a day. Steam condenses on the vanity face, water pools along the top edge of the door beneath the sink, and cleaning products get sprayed straight at it. A wall paint stays soft, absorbs that moisture and peels at the edges within a year.
The answer is the same coating a kitchen gets. A waterborne alkyd enamel or a two-component polyurethane goes on in thin sprayed coats over the primer that particular substrate calls for. Bathroom cabinet painting done in that system handles daily wiping and steam the way a factory finish does.
Which Vanity Substrates Turn Up And What Cabinet Painting They Need
Older bathrooms in West Lynde and Downtown Whitby run to solid wood or oak-faced vanities that need a shellac stain blocker for tannin. Mid-2000s builds in Rolling Acres and Williamsburg are usually maple or thermofoil, and the white thermofoil ones have often yellowed while staying perfectly intact.
Newer vanities in Taunton North and Brooklin tend to be laminate or MDF with a factory finish. Each of those substrates gets a different primer, which is decided at the visit. Cabinet painting a vanity in the wrong primer is the fastest way to have it peel at the sink edge.
What Vanity Cabinet Painting Covers And What It Leaves Alone
The doors and drawer fronts come off and go to the shop like kitchen doors, so the bathroom stays usable while they are away. The carcass is masked tight around the counter, the backsplash and the taps, and it is sprayed in place in a single contained session.
Counters are not painted. If the top is dated as well as the doors, that gets said plainly at the visit, because cabinet painting a vanity under a top nobody likes solves half a problem. Taps and the mirror are left to the owner or another trade.
How Vanity Cabinet Painting Is Priced On Its Own And As An Add-On
A lone vanity carries a fixed mobilising cost, so the price per door works out higher than it would on a kitchen. Two or three vanities booked together, or a vanity added to a kitchen booking, cost meaningfully less per piece.
Across Ontario a standard vanity commonly lands in the low hundreds of dollars, with a double vanity and a linen tower running higher. Those are market ranges and the written quote is the number that applies. Adding vanities to a kitchen quote is the cheapest way to get them done, and full kitchens are covered here.
Ask For A Vanity Cabinet Painting Price Or A Whole-House Price
Both get quoted at the same free visit, so the difference between doing one bathroom and doing everything is visible before anything is booked. The cabinet painting quote lists each room separately.
Call +1 (289) 201-5986 or describe the bathrooms through the contact page. The home page shows the rest of the cabinet painting work.
Bathroom Vanity Painting Questions
Why not use wall paint on a vanity?
Bathrooms cycle between dry and saturated several times a day. A wall paint stays soft, absorbs the moisture and peels at the edges within a year. A sprayed waterborne alkyd enamel or two-component polyurethane handles steam and daily wiping like a factory finish.
Does the bathroom stay usable?
Yes. The doors and drawer fronts go to the shop like kitchen doors. The carcass is masked tight around the counter, backsplash and taps, and sprayed in place in one contained session. Counters, taps and the mirror are left alone.
Why does a single vanity cost more per door?
A lone vanity carries a fixed mobilising cost, so the price per door works out higher than on a kitchen. Two or three vanities booked together, or a vanity added to a kitchen booking, cost less per piece. The quote lists each room separately.