Paneled kitchen cabinets require a little more work use a paint brush to evenly coat angled surfaces and inset areas.
Painting flat cabinet doors.
Lay a sheet of cane webbing behind the glass.
Follow the instructions from the previous slide to create a glass panel cabinet door.
Special cabinet paints are available that provide a smooth finish but any high quality paint should work.
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 plan to get the cabinet doors painted we would highly recommend mdf over solid wood.
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.
There are shaker style cabinet doors flat paneled doors inset doors raised doors and many more.
Simply painting them a.
Flat front kitchen cabinets complement a wide range of decorative styles.
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Then find an area that gives you enough room to work and enough space to let everything dry for extended periods of time.
I let the cabinet doors and drawers dry cure for almost a week.
Remove all draws and doors and don t forget to remove any hardware.
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.
Choose a high quality paint.
The secret to painting drip free and brush stroke free cabinet doors.
If you can wait longer do it.
It was so much faster to spray on paint the coats of paint are thinner and dry faster.
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.
This will prevent any light from coming through the caning.
A flat painting surface is the key to refinishing kitchen cabinets.
The laminate must be in good condition for best results.
Cabinet doors come in a wide variety of styles.
This results in a better and smooth finish especially when the board is painted.
Wood cabinets are ideal for painting but any surface that can be scuffed with sandpaper can be painted.
Laminate cabinets require a special bonding primer.
They are the simplest type of cabinet to update because the flat front is like a blank canvas.
Some paint cabinets like ours have a catalyzed lacquer finish that s very hard.
I ll give you the step by step method to repainting cabinet doors but first i ll let you in on my little secret.
The base cabinets were painted by hand and the cabinet door and drawer were painted with the airless sprayer.