Bathroom vanity painting is the smallest job on the list, usually six to ten pieces finished inside one or two days, with a primer and topcoat chosen to stand up to the steam and splashes of a bathroom.
Vanities in the 1960s bungalows of the north end and the century homes around Yates Street are often original and painted several times over. Every job is insured, and a vanity is a good first job for anyone who wants to see the finish before committing a whole kitchen to cabinet painting.
A vanity lives a metre from a shower, and the door beside the toilet gets splashed and wiped daily. The finish needs to be fully sealed at every edge, including the bottom edge of the doors and the inside of the sink cutout, where water sits. The primer is chosen for the substrate the same way as any cabinet painting job, and the topcoat is a hard enamel or two-part polyurethane that shrugs off water once cured.
Cure matters more in a bathroom than anywhere else. A vanity door that is used in a steamy room before the finish has hardened will mark. We ask for the fan to run and for gentle use for the first two weeks.
The first visit sends every door and drawer front off for degreasing, sanding and the booth. The box is sprayed in place behind containment, which in a small bathroom means the whole room is masked. Within a week the doors return. Bundled with a kitchen, a vanity adds little to the schedule because its doors ride along with the kitchen doors, and the vanity appears on the quote as a separate line.
The vanities in newer Martindale and Grapeview houses and in condos across the city are mostly melamine, laminate or thermofoil over MDF, and the same cabinet painting bonding primer rules apply. Thermofoil that has bubbled from steam has to be stripped or the door replaced before it can be painted. The thermofoil and melamine page covers that in full.
Because a vanity is a small surface in a small room, a colour that would be too much across a kitchen works well here. Navy, forest green, black and charcoal vanities with brass or black hardware are the common choices, and a warm white suits an older house. A sample door is painted first, and cabinet colour consultation covers how bathroom lighting changes the way a colour reads.
A vanity on its own is a quick visit and a quick job. Send us a note or call +1 (905) 367-8017 and say how many doors and drawers it has. The St. Catharines Cabinet Painting home page covers the kitchen cabinet painting most vanities get bundled with.
A vanity is a small cabinet painting job with a short timeline, and it is a low-risk way to see the sprayed finish in your own house before deciding on the kitchen.
Identical prep, primer and sprayed coats go onto all the other cabinets around the house.
Kitchen cabinet painting removes every door and drawer front, degreases and sands the lot, primes for the substrate and sprays thin coats of a hard enamel so an existing kitchen looks new without replacing a single box.
See Kitchen Cabinets
Oak cabinet painting locks the tannins in golden oak under a shellac primer, deals with the open grain by filling it or keeping it, and lays a hard sprayed enamel over 1980s and 1990s doors that are solid, well built and simply the wrong colour.
See Oak Cabinets
Post-war bungalow kitchen cabinet painting restores the original birch and plywood slab doors of 1950s to 1970s kitchens, or the 1980s oak that replaced them, in the small galley layouts those houses were built with.
See Post-War Bungalows
Thermofoil, melamine and laminate doors carry slick factory surfaces where ordinary primer will not hold, so the job begins with bonding primer, plus an honest verdict on the doors worth painting and the ones past saving.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
Cabinet spray painting means doors finished in a filtered spray booth, boxes finished behind sealed containment in the kitchen, and thin, even coats of enamel or 2K polyurethane that cure hard with no brush marks, which is cabinet painting done the factory way.
See Spray Painting
Cabinet refinishing keeps the wood. Stripping or sanding takes the old finish off, new stain goes on, and a clear coat seals it, so solid walnut, cherry or white oak doors look new without paint covering the grain.
See Refinishing
A two-tone kitchen puts a painted perimeter beside a darker or wood-toned island, and where the perimeter is already fine, just the island gets sprayed in navy, green or charcoal as a job of its own.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Refacing fits fresh doors and drawer fronts onto boxes that are still sound, and door replacement swaps out a single damaged or delaminated door and sprays it to match, for a fraction of what a full kitchen replacement costs.
See Refacing and New Doors
Condo kitchen cabinet painting deals with a small galley, the building's rules, the elevator and the parking, and because the doors are sprayed away from the building, the unit stays livable while its boxes get sprayed inside two days.
See Condo Kitchens
With the doors already down, the old handle holes are filled and hidden under paint, a template guides fresh drilling, and worn hinges are exchanged for soft-close units sized to the same cup.
See Hardware and Hinges
Cabinet painting for pantries, laundry and mudroom cabinets, built-in wall units, bookcases, window seats and fireplace mantels covers the cabinets that are not in the kitchen, and most of these pieces get finished on site.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
A colour consultation pins down colour and sheen before any spraying starts, with a sample door finished in the real colour and checked in the kitchen's own light against the counters, the floor and the backsplash.
See Colour ConsultationWe arrive, count the doors and put the quote in writing. The visit costs nothing and there is no pressure to go ahead.
Describe the kitchen as fully as suits you. We phone back to book the visit. Two things send the form: who you are and how to reach you. If you would sooner talk, the number is +1 (905) 367-8017.
