No cabinet painting booking is smaller than a bathroom vanity, which most often wraps up within two days. Steam and splashing mean it needs a hard topcoat and a full cure before heavy cleaning.
Willowdale custom homes often have four or five bathrooms, each with its own vanity, and most match the original kitchen finish. Painting them with the kitchen keeps the whole house consistent.
Bathroom walls get a moisture-resistant wall paint, but vanity doors need a true cabinet coating. We degrease, sand and prime each vanity, then spray a hard enamel or two-part polyurethane that stands up to water and daily wiping.
Kick plates and lower door edges beside a tub or shower receive extra care, since standing water collects there.
Oak vanities are typical in bungalows updated during the late twentieth century. Custom homes from the 2000s have lacquered MDF or wood-veneer vanities to match the kitchen. Condos and basement suites usually have melamine or thermofoil.
Each material gets the same primer rules as a kitchen: shellac on oak, a bonding primer on lacquer, melamine and thermofoil.
Painting one vanity in Toronto usually costs $900 to $2,200, depending on its size and how many fronts it has. A new custom vanity with a new top and faucet often costs several times that.
Bundled with kitchen cabinet painting, each vanity costs less, because setup and travel get shared.
Steam softens a fresh finish. For seven days or so, please run the exhaust fan while showering and hang damp towels somewhere other than the doors. Heavy scrubbing waits a few weeks.
In a home with several bathrooms, we can stagger the work so one stays usable.
Bathroom cabinets face steam, hairspray, makeup and strong cleaners, all in a small space. A proper cabinet painting finish handles that, but only after full cure.
We tell you which cleaners are safe on the new finish and which ones to avoid. Mild soap and water work best. Harsh bathroom sprays with bleach or ammonia can dull the surface over time, so rinse and wipe dry after using them near the vanity.
Most Willowdale infill homes have a powder room, a primary ensuite and two or three more bathrooms upstairs and in the basement. Every one has a vanity, usually finished to match the original kitchen.
When the kitchen gets new colour, the vanities can look out of step. Cabinet painting all of them at once gives the house one consistent look. Vanities can be painted the same colour as the kitchen or given their own colour, and each one is listed on the quote.
Powder rooms are the most visible to guests, so owners often choose a bolder colour there, like navy or deep green. Ensuites usually stay light and calm. Vanity cabinet painting in several rooms is spread over a few days so there is always a working bathroom.
We count the vanities, check the material and write a cabinet painting quote for each one. Call +1 (647) 370-5454, ask us over, or return to the Willowdale home page. Other rooms are covered under pantry, laundry and built-in cabinet painting.
Condo vanities, pantry walls, laundry closets and custom built-ins are primed and topcoated with the kitchen system.
Each front is degreased, scuffed and primed according to its material, then sprayed with a durable topcoat and rehung. With kitchen cabinet painting the whole room gets a new colour, while stone, faucet and tile stay untouched.
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The custom homes that replaced Willowdale's bungalows hold some of the largest kitchens in Toronto, often with 50 or more doors in lacquer, polyester or painted MDF. Cabinet painting refreshes those kitchens for a fraction of what new custom millwork costs.
See Infill Homes
Before oak takes colour, it needs a tannin-sealing primer and a firm decision on what happens to its open pores. Handled in that sequence, oak cabinet painting ends up even, smooth and free of brown bleed.
See Oak Cabinets
Certain wood kitchens deserve restoring rather than covering, so refinishing removes the tired finish, shifts the stain tone where needed, and protects the timber with a sprayed clear coat. When the timber is handsome enough to keep on view, it replaces paint altogether.
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Spraying lays primer and topcoat down in thin, even coats that level out smooth, with no roller texture and no brush lines. Cabinet painting done this way looks close to a factory finish and lasts longer at the handles.
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Shiny factory finishes will accept colour, provided an adhesion primer goes first and the surface remains firmly stuck to its core. Before any thermofoil, melamine or laminate cabinet painting, we inspect each door one by one.
See Thermofoil and Melamine
New doors and drawer fronts can go onto the boxes you already have, sprayed in the same colour as the frames. Think of it as the step between cabinet painting and a complete tear-out.
See Refacing and New Doors
Two-tone means pale wall runs matched with a deeper island or deeper base cabinets, and no cabinet painting layout is asked for more often today. An island can also be painted alone to give an older kitchen a new focus.
See Two-Tone and Islands
Condo kitchens are small, but building rules, elevator bookings and shared air make the planning bigger than the job. With condo kitchen cabinet work, fronts leave the unit, so daily life inside carries on.
See Condo Kitchens
Pantries, laundry cupboards, mudroom lockers and fitted units receive the primer and topcoat a kitchen would. These units are anchored, so we do the job where they stand, inside sealed sheeting.
See Pantries and Built-Ins
Fresh handles and quiet-closing hinges complete a painted kitchen, and fitting them is easiest when the fronts are down anyway. Unused holes get plugged, new ones are bored off a jig, and hardware goes on after the cabinet painting has hardened.
See Hardware and Hinges
A full door finished in the shade and propped in your kitchen settles what a tiny chip never will. Cabinet painting colour consultation lets you judge true colour on your actual cabinetry, under your actual lighting, before deciding.
See Colour ConsultationA visit covers the door tally, the material check and a written scope. There is no fee for the visit or the quote.
List what you know about the cabinets, house or suite. We phone back to pick a time and need only a name and number. Or reach us directly at +1 (647) 370-5454.
