Thanks for all the good info!! This article is so helpful! Hi Cami! Are the knots 3 dimensional? I would fill them if they create holes or dips in the surface of the wood. The paint will cover any color differences with enough coats but will not fill in holes. We bought our home a year ago and the seller used flat white paint for the kitchen cabinets and hinges. The paint is already coming off. I would like to repaint them. They are real wood cabinets. Your thoughts would be appreciated on what to do first.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Hi Olga, if the old paint is peeling or flaking you should sand it down to an even finish first. If it's simply being worn off by overuse, you can use the methods in this post to paint over it. Never paint fronts first. Lay your door face down while doing the backs.
Let dry thoroughly. Flip over and do fronts lastly, to avoid blemishes on the face. Myself I spray! Clean very well with denatured alcohol, spray latex Stix undercoat, then spray smooth finish coat like glass tip I love Inslx cabinet coat. Creating a color-filled life. Conquering my little world one DIY project at a time.
With lots of coffee and chocolate. Albuquerque NM. Pin Share Email Print. Cons: Can be hard to get the products. Limited color selection. Cons: Takes a long time to dry between coats. Requires sanding and primer. Prep Even with the right products, the key to a good finish is in the preparation. Paint Door Fronts Once your cabinets are clean, you can paint the front of the cabinet doors. Paint Cabinet Frames Now that the doors and hinges are out of the way, you can paint your cabinet frames.
Paint Sides and Backs of Doors While your frames are drying, you can paint the edges and backs of your cabinet doors. Replace Doors After your doors and frames are good and dry most paints will need a few days to really cure hard , you can replace them. Update Hardware This step is optional, but so much fun! What about Laminate? Can I use latex paint? Can I spray my cabinets? Do I need a primer? This is the big question — what does primer actually do?
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I have directly reached out to several DIY home flippers to tell them that skipping sanding and priming is a sin when it comes to painting kitchen cabinets, only to be shrugged off. Cue me , a person who loves DIY but who also works for a professional painting contractor. Anyone who skips part of, or worse ALL, of the below steps is setting you up for failure, point blank. By the way, most kitchens have at least 50 cabinet doors and drawers, just to put this in perspective.
Our painters spray the paint finish with professional equipment, so the cabinet paint is never brushed or rolled, brush marks and roller stipple, no thank you! If you want to see the full process, including video, we write about it here.
It takes a 2-man crew of our professional painters seasoned veteran painters who do hundreds of these projects a year an average of days to complete the entire process, longer for larger kitchens.
Anyone who says you can paint your whole kitchen in one weekend by yourself is grossly misinformed or doing it wrong. First, you have to thoroughly clean your cabinets, but this is the part most people skimp on.
Grease and oils from cooking or washing dishes have a way of permeating cabinets, and can be a pain to truly remove.
Extra care should be taken around the cooking area above, below, and to the sides of your stove, as well as the cabinets directly below your sink and surrounding area. Most nonprofessionals blow right past this step, figuring the sanding and priming will take care of kitchen grease.
Our professional painters first use a standard household degreaser, followed up by a more heavy duty industry specific chemical degreaser. What happens if you bypass, or half-step this part? You want to sand enough to rough up the surface, but no so much you cut all the way through to the raw wood. Then we apply the first coat of primer, then we sand again, then we apply the second coat of primer, then we sand again to get ready for the finish coat. Use a heavier grit, then a fine grit.
This part of the process is truly something you get better at having a feel for each time you do it. If you still want to try this on your own, at least wear a dust mask.
Inhaling all those dust particles can really knock you on your.. Our painters use professional grade respirators with heavy-duty filters for sanding and spraying.
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