The vanity is the smallest cabinet anywhere in a house and the quickest to change, usually one to two days from removal to reinstall. It stands in steam daily, so primer, topcoat and cure suit a wet room.
Most people add it onto a kitchen booking, since the masking and the booth trip are already covered and the extra cost is small. An oak vanity in an Armitage or Summerhill Heights bathroom nearly always came out of the same order as the kitchen, which is why the two go together and both are covered under kitchen cabinet painting.
Steam Changes What Cabinet Painting Puts On A Vanity
Moisture is the reason bathroom cabinet painting is not simply kitchen work on a smaller scale. A bathroom moves from dry to saturated twice daily, and a soft single-component paint never gets the chance to harden properly in that.
The answer is hard enamel, or a polyurethane in two components, sprayed thin with the cabinet painting left to cure before anything gets wiped down. Ventilation matters after the job as much as during it, and a bathroom fan that actually vents outside does more for a painted vanity than any product choice.
Toe Kicks, Sink Cutouts And Backsplashes Need Attention First
A vanity has three places that fail before cabinet painting can help anything else. The toe kick sits in mop water, the rail under the sink takes drips from a worn faucet base, and the edge behind a tiled backsplash catches standing water where the caulk has failed.
All three get checked before any cabinet painting quote is written. Particleboard swollen under a sink cannot take cabinet painting and needs the panel replaced first. Failed caulk gets cut out and redone, because painting over it just hides the leak for another year.
Cabinet Painting A Vanity Runs One To Two Days
Cabinet painting starts the same way here: the doors and drawer faces come off numbered, hinges go into bags, and the surfaces are degreased, filled, sanded and primed to suit whatever they turn out to be. Older vanities are usually solid oak or oak veneer and take a shellac stain blocker. Builder vanities from the 2000s are often thermofoil or melamine and take a bonding primer instead.
Doors go to the booth while the box is coated in place behind plastic, with the counter, the sink and the floor masked. The bathroom itself is out of service for part of that, which is worth planning around in a house with one bathroom.
Colour On A Vanity Can Be Bolder Than Colour In A Kitchen
A vanity is a small run of cabinetry inside a small room, so cabinet painting in a colour that would overwhelm a kitchen often works well there. Navy, forest green and charcoal all read as deliberate on a vanity, and they pair easily with brass or matte black pulls.
Matching the vanity cabinet painting to the kitchen is also a fair choice, particularly in a house where both were ordered in the same oak. Sample doors are sprayed exactly as they would be for a kitchen, which the page on choosing a shade sets out.
What A Vanity Costs On Its Own And As An Add-On
Cabinet painting one vanity, two doors plus two or three drawer faces, generally runs $400 to $900 by itself, according to substrate and whether hardware changes. Bolted onto a kitchen booking it costs less, since the setup, the masking and the booth trip are already in place.
A double vanity with six or more pieces runs higher. Those are regional ranges, and the written quote sets out piece count, primer and coats for the vanity apart from the kitchen.
Add A Vanity To The Quote Or Book It On Its Own
Either works. A vanity alone is a short job and a straightforward one, and a vanity alongside a kitchen barely lengthens the schedule. No charge applies to the visit or the written cabinet painting quote. Call +1 (289) 206-6921, describe the bathroom on the form, or see the full range of cabinet work.
Bathroom Vanity Painting Questions
Can a vanity be painted a bolder colour than the kitchen?
Yes. A vanity is a small, separate piece, so deep navy, green or charcoal is a lower-risk choice there. Sample doors show how the colour reads under bathroom lighting.
Will steam damage a painted vanity?
Primer, topcoat and cure time are chosen for a wet room, and toe kicks, sink cutouts and backsplash edges get extra attention first. Wipe spills dry rather than letting water sit.
Is it cheaper to add a vanity to a kitchen booking?
Yes. Setup, masking and the trip to the booth are already covered on a kitchen job, so the vanity costs less. A double vanity with six or more pieces runs higher.