Steam reaches the house's smallest cabinet every single morning. Two or four fronts plus a drawer or two get degreased, primed and sprayed across one or two days, in a product chosen for wet rooms.
Most vanities ride along on a kitchen cabinet painting booking, since travel, setup and containment have all been paid for. Standing alone a vanity is still worth booking, and it is often how somebody watches the method before handing over a whole kitchen.
Steam Decides Which Cabinet Painting Coating Goes On A Vanity
Humidity in a bathroom climbs twice daily and then falls away again, while the fronts nearest the basin collect standing water along a top edge. Any weakness in a cabinet painting job is found by that cycle.
Cabinet painting a vanity is won in the prep. Soap film, toothpaste, hand cream and hairspray leave residues that household cleaner walks straight past, so degreasing here takes far longer than the size of the cabinet suggests. Then the primer that suits the material: shellac across oak, a bonding product across the melamine and vinyl units fitted through the 1990s and 2000s.
Over that goes a hard enamel, or else two-component polyurethane, and never wall paint. Sheen generally climbs one step above the kitchen, because a glossier film wipes cleaner in a room somebody wipes daily.
A Vanity Is Out Of Action For Hours, Not Days
The doors come off, go to the shop and come back, and the cabinet box is sprayed on site in a morning. The sink stays usable through almost all of the cabinet painting, which matters in a house with one bathroom.
Timing follows the cabinet painting product. Two-component polyurethane hardens inside a day, so a vanity sprayed on Friday is in ordinary service by the weekend. Waterborne alkyd asks for a careful opening week, especially on whichever front sits under the basin where a damp towel lands.
Vanity Cabinet Painting Runs $350 To $900 In This Market
A single thirty-six inch vanity with two doors and two drawers commonly lands between $350 and $600. A double vanity with a linen tower alongside runs $600 to $900, and a full bathroom with a built-in medicine cabinet and a linen closet goes above that.
Bolted onto a kitchen job the cabinet painting figure falls noticeably, because the bulk of the cost in a small cabinet is setting up rather than spraying. The same holds for the other small cabinetry described under the built-in cabinetry page.
Old Oak Vanities Match Old Oak Kitchens, And Both Date A House
In the Old West End, Ashburnham and the 1980s streets of Westmount, the bathroom vanity is frequently the same golden oak as the kitchen, ordered at the same time by the same builder. Cabinet painting one and not the other leaves the house half finished.
An oak vanity wants the shellac and the grain decision that oak kitchen fronts want, both covered on the oak cabinet painting page. Cottage and waterfront bathrooms bring pine along instead, pine brings knots, and knots bring the stain blocker with them.
Hardware And Hinges Get Sorted While The Doors Are Off
Nowhere is easier for changing hardware, since only a handful of holes exist. Knob holes no longer wanted are plugged and levelled before primer, and fresh pulls are bored off a jig once the film has cured.
Soft-close hinges fit most vanities built after about 1995, and they are worth the small cost in a room where a door gets shut with one hand holding a towel.
Book A Vanity On Its Own Or Alongside The Kitchen
Looking at a vanity is quick and scheduling one is quicker, and it can join a kitchen cabinet painting quote right up until the work begins. Call +1 (705) 230-9056, ask for both to be priced, or see the full range of cabinet work.
Bathroom Vanity Painting Questions
How long is the vanity out of use?
Hours, not days. A vanity takes one day, sometimes two, from degreasing to the last coat. The film hardens over the following days, so go gently with it for a week or two.
Which coating suits a bathroom?
A hard waterborne enamel or a two-component polyurethane, chosen for daily steam and splashing. Both stand up to moisture far better than wall paint. The quote names the product and the primer under it.
Can a vanity be done on its own?
Yes. A single vanity is a regular booking, though it costs less bolted onto a kitchen job, since the larger job has already paid for the travel, setup and masking. Hardware and hinges get sorted while the doors are off.