Bathroom vanity painting brings the kitchen routine of degreasing, priming and a sprayed topcoat to the small cabinet under the sink, over one or two days, paying extra attention to the doors that sit closest to the water.
A Barrie ensuite or main bath vanity almost always matches the material of the kitchen it was built alongside, so Letitia Heights oak, Painswick South maple and the thermofoil of newer Holly and Alcona streets all turn up here in miniature. Vanities often get done on the same visit as the kitchen, and one makes a sensible first job by itself.
Most vanities carry two to six doors and a handful of drawers, making them the smallest cabinet painting job a house has. Doors come down on day one, the cabinet gets degreased, sanded and primed for its material, and the base gets sprayed behind plastic without leaving the room. The doors get sprayed at the booth and hung a few days on, often on the same trip as kitchen doors when both are booked.
Pricing follows the cabinet painting market by door count, so a vanity generally sits at the very bottom of the $130 to $250 per-door band and drops further when bundled with a kitchen, since setup and travel are already covered. Your price is the written quote.
A bathroom cabinet takes shower steam, sink splashes and the occasional slow drip from the trap, and the doors under the basin fail first. Vanity cabinet painting uses 2K polyurethane, or else waterborne alkyd enamel, cured fully before the room returns to daily use, since a soft finish in a steamy room marks and lifts. Door bottoms and the underside of the cabinet floor receive the same coats as the faces, because that is where water settles. The thin-coat method behind that hardness is on the cabinet spray painting page.
A vanity swollen at the bottom by a leak gets pointed out at the visit and left off the quote. Particleboard that has taken on water stays thick, soft and crumbly, and cabinet painting over it looks wrong from day one. Where the doors are fine and only the base has swelled, the doors get painted and a new base gets suggested. Where the doors are thermofoil lifted by steam, new doors sprayed to match are explained on our new doors page.
A small room tolerates a strong colour. Navy, forest green, charcoal and deep greige all work on a vanity that would be too much on a full kitchen, and brass or black pulls finish them well. Owners who want to test a colour before committing the kitchen to it often try it on the vanity first, which makes vanity cabinet painting a low-cost way to see a colour in the house before the bigger job.
Send a photo of the vanity and mention whether the kitchen is being done too, and the free visit will price both. Use the form or call +1 (705) 230-7220. The Barrie Cabinet Painting home page covers the kitchen side of the work across Barrie, Innisfil and Springwater.
A vanity is the quickest cabinet painting job there is, and done with a hard sprayed finish it stands up to a steamy bathroom for years.
Prep, primer and a sprayed coating of the very same kind go onto whatever other cabinets a house holds.
Kitchen cabinet painting starts with the doors, the drawer fronts and the boxes already in the house, cuts the grease and old sheen off them, primes each for its material and sprays on a new colour that cures hard enough for everyday use.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Tannins in golden oak get sealed under shellac before anything else happens. Filler then closes the open pores until they disappear, and sprayed colour finishes doors that were solid all along. Oak cabinet painting suits them well.
See Oak Cabinets
Cabinet spray painting is sprayed cabinet painting: primer and topcoat go on as a fine mist in thin, even passes, so doors and boxes finish with a smooth, level film free of brush ridges, roller stipple and thick edges that chip.
See Spray Painting
Thermofoil, melamine and laminate doors take paint only over a bonding primer made to grip slick factory surfaces, followed by a sprayed topcoat, which lets doors that would otherwise shed ordinary paint within months hold a new finish instead.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Two-tone work puts one colour on the perimeter cabinets and another on the island or lower run, giving a plain kitchen depth and a focal point without buying a single new cabinet.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Cabinet refinishing leaves the wood on display: the worn finish gets stripped or sanded away, fresh stain goes on where the colour is shifting, and instead of paint the doors get sealed beneath a sprayed clear coat.
See Refinishing
Refacing means fresh doors and drawer fronts hung on boxes worth keeping, while a single damaged door simply gets swapped for a new one; old and new then pass through one booth together so nothing looks different.
See Refacing and New Doors
Cottage kitchen cabinet painting deals with knotty pine that bleeds through paint, small kitchens that need to stay usable, and buildings that are cold and closed for half the year, by using shellac primer and timing the work for the warm months.
See Cottage Kitchens
Hardware and hinge work fills old handle holes, drills fresh ones on a template once the finish has cured, and swaps tired self-closing hinges for soft-close ones, so new pulls and quiet doors arrive with the new colour.
See Hardware and Hinges
Pantry, laundry and built-in work covers cabinetry that cannot travel to a booth, from walk-in pantries and laundry or mudroom runs to fireplace wall units, mantels and bookcases, every piece sprayed in place inside a sealed enclosure.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Small galleys, building rules, elevator bookings and parking are what condo kitchen cabinet painting has to manage, so doors go out for spraying and the unit stays livable while the boxes take a day or two.
See Condo Kitchens
A cabinet colour consultation fixes the colour and sheen ahead of cabinet painting by spraying one of your own doors in the real product and leaving it in the kitchen, so the decision gets made under the room's own light.
See Colour ConsultationWe visit, count the doors, work out the material and write the quote up, at no charge and with no obligation.
Tell us about the kitchen in whatever detail you have and a call follows to arrange the visit. The form goes through as soon as it has your name and a phone number on it. When a call is simpler, dial +1 (705) 230-7220.
