How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets in few Easy Steps

If you want to upgrade your kitchen without spending a lot of money, knowing how to paint kitchen cabinets is the perfect DIY solution. In this video, Kevin and painting expert Rich O'Neil showed a homeowner the proper way to paint her kitchen cabinets.

Steps for Painting Cabinets
1. Prep the room
2. Remove the doors, drawers, and shelves
3. Clean all the surfaces
4. Prime the cabinet boxes
5. Sand, caulk, and fill
6. Paint the cabinet boxes
7. Prep, prime, and paint the doors, drawers, and shelves
8. Put back all the pieces


Follow us with the timestamp below:
00:04: Degrease and sand the panel so that the new paint will adhere well
00:35: Removes the sanding dust with a tack cloth and applies an acrylic bonding primer with a brush, being careful to use long brush strokes for a smooth appearance
01:39: Smooth out the face of the panel
02:40: Hangs the panel from hooks screwed into 2x4's set in-between two ladders.
02:56: Paint the back and all around the edges of the panel

TIPS: Apply two coats of latex paint and two coats of water-based polyurethane for added durability.


Tools and Material List for How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets:
- Spray-on degreaser or household cleanser used to clean the doors before applying the primer coat
- Clean cotton rags: for wiping doors clean
- 100- and 120-grit sandpaper, for power-sanding and hand-sanding the doors smooth
- Tack cloth: for removing sanding dust from doors. Two stepladders and two 8-foot-long 2x4s, for making a painting/drying station
- Screw hooks: used to hang the doors from the painting/drying station
- 1 5/8-inch drywall screws, for attaching to doors to serve as temporary handles
- 2- to 3-inch-wide paint brushes, used for applying primer, paint and clear polyurethane topcoat
- random orbit sander, used to slightly roughen the doors' surfaces prior to priming

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