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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Before we paint anything, it's very important to degrease all the surfaces that we're going
to paint.
So spray some of the cleaner onto a clean cloth and scrub the surface to remove all
of the grease and oil so that the paint will stick really well to the surface.
Using a palm sander, we sand the surface with 100 grit paper to abrade the surface and give
it some tooth so that the primer will adhere to it really well.
For the moldings, I fold the sandpaper over and use the crease to get into the edge where
the panel and the moldings come together.
That's great.
It's always a good idea to dust off the surface and then use a tack cloth to get any remaining
dust off of there.
What you want to do is dip the brush and tap it on the side of the pot liner.
Yeah, both sides.
That's right.
And then bring the brush to your surface starting at the edge of the panels.
You want to work in two steps.
Get the paint on there first for coverage and then smooth it out to make it look nice
and catch any drips or runs.
That's great.
Let me show you how to paint the field of the panel.
Thank you.
I dip the brush, tap it on both sides and bring it to the surface and just get the product
on there for coverage.
Notice I put the brush into the corner to make sure that we get the bristles right into
those edges.
Now that I have the coverage with a fairly dry brush, I lay it off and smooth even strokes.
First I do the moldings and then I'll smooth out the face of the panel.
You can see I start in the corners and bring with long smooth brush strokes from one corner
down to the other.
Bring it out of the corner and feather off as you come to the middle of the panel.
After you're done with the panel, you move on to the frame of the door, also known as
the rails and stiles.
Again, you work in two steps.
Apply the paint for coverage and then smooth it out to make it look nice.
You'll notice that I propped the door up so I can more easily do the edges.
Now we're ready to do the back.
You've got a couple of hooks that you put into the door?
That's right.
We'll use these to hang the door while we're painting the back.
You've got yourself a little ingenious station over here.
There are two ladders, two 2x4s on the top, and then a whole series of hooks here, I presume
to hang doors while they dry, and then two more right here?
That's right.
So this will be a painting station and we'll hang the door from these hooks while we paint
the back.
After that, we'll move it over to a drying area.
You have this little trick, you put a screw in here in one of the screw holes from the
hinge.
You can use that as a little handle so that the door doesn't swing back and forth while
you brush it.
You want to paint the back just like the front, so you paint all around the edges of the panel,
just like you're doing.
Looks good.
So time for the drying rack?
That's right.
And you've got the hooks here.
Are these on the top of the door?
Yes.
We put them on the top of the door for the upper cabinets.
That way, they're into what we call the blind side.
I can't see them up high, and then on the lower cabinets, you probably put the hooks
in the bottom.
That's right.
All right.
So we've got about 15 more doors to do, right?
That's right.
All right.
And we're going to have what on them?
A prime coat, two coats of paint, and two coats of water-based polyurethane.
All right.
That is a lot of work left.
