Painting Pine Panel Doors

Wipe it down with a damp rag just before painting.

Painting pine panel doors.

Starting with the first section paint the detailed parts of the top two panels with your 2 tapered paint brush. Rather than simply painting the door from top to the bottom you can get the best paint job by painting paneled doors in a certain order. Start with a dust free door. Painting the rest of the door the next step is to basically paint the rest of the door.

Then roll on a coat of bin or kilz available at home centers for about 8 per quart. Wipe off the dust with a brush. The louver primed doors are constructed with a solid pine core that provides a much quieter environment than hollow core doors. But it only works when the undertones are right.

Coat the recessed areas first and then the faces of the panels. It also helps the finish paint cover with fewer coats. Then go back with your roller and roll the flat faces around the detail. Smooth out the paint working with the grain.

If your doors are brand new and unpainted and constructed of timber e g. But interior doors are often paneled and should be painted in the following order. Choose a green with an undertone like your paneling usually warm yellow and you can ramp up all that outdoor freshness. Pine then what you are really going to need to do to get the best finish is to apply one coat of primer one coat of undercoat or indeed one coat of a combined primer and undercoat and then your top coat.

Using a high density mini foam paint roller start by painting the middle section with the grain of the wood not against it up and down in a vertical fashion and then paint the horizontal sections of the door from left to right. Our unique integral panel design will not shrink or split and there is no possibility of stile and rail separation. Within each section there are two detailed recessed panels and 7 flat faces. Oh wait those are the colors of a pine tree green and brown.

For a standard 6 panel door this is the order to go in. Consider a paint additive to slow down drying and improve leveling. Be sure to roll in line with the wood grain pattern. Begin by applying paint to the inside of the top panels.

You have to lay down the paint and smooth it out before it becomes too sticky to work with or so stiff that brush marks won t level out and disappear. The basic technique for painting a flat door is long smooth brush strokes or vertical roller strokes. Bunny williams in southern living photo by laurey w. When painting a panel door a paint brush may be more effective than a roller.