How To Paint Kitchen Cabinets

On the cabinet doors and drawer fronts pieces paint the backs let them dry then paint the fronts.

How to paint kitchen cabinets. Follow the paint directions for the correct dry time. Do not rush let the paint completely cure. Prepping The Kitchen Cabinets For Painting.

While painting a few cabinets at a time sounds like a simpler process youll find it a lot more disruptive in your daily life. Paint the back first leaving the edges unpainted so youll have a spot to put your fingers when you turn the door over. Painting your kitchen cabinets isnt quite as easy as grabbing a gallon of eggshell and going to townIt takes a little more prep than painting a room.

If you have been following along with our DIY projects then you know that we have almost gotten rid of all that 90s construction-grade honey oak. Wash All The Wood That Is To Be Painted. Two years ago I used the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations Kit to transform my kitchen cabinets from an oak color to a dark espresso finish.

This professional-grade paint is great for trim cabinets and other accents especially because its high-gloss finish easily wipes clean and keeps its shine even after being washed multiple times. One of the larger room makeovers we did was painting the kitchen cabinets. Like I said earlier kitchen cabinet painting is 80 prep work and 20 painting.

Mask off the interiors with painters tape for a clean finish and sand only the front surfaces and visible edges of the cabinet face frames. Seven years ago yes you read that right way before this blog existed we decided to paint our kitchen cabinets white. The easiest way to paint your kitchen cabinets is to do them all at once.

If your repainting project is just a facelift for the cabinets you dont need to sand and paint the inside of the cabinets. When the paint dries usually in about four hours lightly sand the first coat of paint wipe clean with a tack cloth then apply a second final coat of paint. Then flip the door over and rest it on the screw tips.