How To Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets Yourself

Allow the paint to dry for at least four hours between coats.

How to paint your kitchen cabinets yourself. Apply a coat of paint to all the primed surfaces finishing up with top-to-bottom strokes along the grain. The first thing I did was remove all of the handles give the cabinets and drawer faces a deep cleaning. Just follow this step by step tutorial.

Use a testing kit or call a professional for help. Clean Cabinets After years and perhaps even decades of handling cabinets and drawers can get dirty. Mix trisodium phosphate TSP or a phosphate-free TSP substitute in warm water.

If your cabinets were previously painted and your house was built before 1978 the paint may be lead-based. If your cabinets have a factory finish sand lightly with 120-grit sandpaper or a sanding sponge. Always refer to the manufacturers instructions on all paint.

From sanding to priming to painting follow these steps for a flawless finishSee all. How To Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets Yourself Lets get to it. Let the primer dry according to the label on the primer you are using.

Two coats of quality paint are usually all that is necessary but you may want to add a third coat because kitchen cabinets take lots of punishment from cooking heat and day-to-day use and wood surfaces need all the. Besides the cost to paint wood cabinets should be no more than about 250 plus a weekend or two of your time. In contrast a few fresh coats of paint can go a long way toward transforming your existing cabinets for a fraction of that price.

How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets Photography by Studio McGee First remove all the hardware and take the doors off the hinges before cleaning them thoroughly so theyre ready to sand this helps get you an even consistency especially with tricky laminate doors. Since primer is much cheaper than paint this will save you some cash. As always if you have questions you can ask them in the comments section DM me on Instagram or email me.