Painting Flat Cabinet Doors

Cabinet doors come in a wide variety of styles.

Painting flat cabinet doors.

I let the cabinet doors and drawers dry cure for almost a week. Paneled kitchen cabinets require a little more work use a paint brush to evenly coat angled surfaces and inset areas. Simply painting them a. It was so much faster to spray on paint the coats of paint are thinner and dry faster.

The laminate must be in good condition for best results. If you have flat doors on your kitchen cabinets you can make quick work of paint application by using a paint roller with nap for the most even application and smooth finish. Follow the instructions from the previous slide to create a glass panel cabinet door. For a solid background cut a 1 4 inch thick wood panel to the same size as the glass and paint it the same color as the cabinet door.

Some paint cabinets like ours have a catalyzed lacquer finish that s very hard. Laminate cabinets require a special bonding primer. If you plan to get the cabinet doors painted we would highly recommend mdf over solid wood. Choose a high quality paint.

I ll give you the step by step method to repainting cabinet doors but first i ll let you in on my little secret. First sand any damaged areas on the doors or paint cabinet frames with 320 grit sandpaper to remove burrs or ridges then fill the areas with spackling compound photo 3. A flat painting surface is the key to refinishing kitchen cabinets. Then find an area that gives you enough room to work and enough space to let everything dry for extended periods of time.

Painting cabinets can be intimidating but with a little patience and planning ahead you can save hundreds of dollars by doing it yourself. If you can wait longer do it. The secret to painting drip free and brush stroke free cabinet doors. There are shaker style cabinet doors flat paneled doors inset doors raised doors and many more.

Then i waited a couple of hours before painting the final coats. Lay a sheet of cane webbing behind the glass. Special cabinet paints are available that provide a smooth finish but any high quality paint should work. They are the simplest type of cabinet to update because the flat front is like a blank canvas.

Wood cabinets are ideal for painting but any surface that can be scuffed with sandpaper can be painted. Primer won t form a good bond to this surface unless you scuff it up first. The base cabinets were painted by hand and the cabinet door and drawer were painted with the airless sprayer. Flat front kitchen cabinets complement a wide range of decorative styles.

This results in a better and smooth finish especially when the board is painted. I used sherwin williams oil based proenamel in alabaster for the upper cabinets and sherwin williams contractor grade oil based paint color matched to benjamin moore s huntington green.