Things To Avoid When Repainting Kitchen Cabinets

With just a few coats of new colour and – Voilà! – your kitchen gets a total makeover in no time. However, in reality, repainting your kitchen cabinets is a project that requires skills and meticulous planning. It also entails numerous consequences.

Below, you’ll find a few things to consider when repainting your kitchen cabinets:

#1 Be Realistic

DIY projects usually look lovely on the Internet. However, when doing it yourself, it may yield far from perfect outcomes. There may be visible open grains, and grooves will show up through the paint. It may be time-intensive and challenging, but you can fill the grains beforehand with putty to solve this. Enough time should be given for this project because this is no lazy Sunday type of activity. Also, a lot of people think that this gets done over the weekend, but in reality, it takes an average of four to seven days for you to finish.

#2 Clean Up, Sand and Dust-Off

Despite the fact that that you feel like your kitchen is already clean, clean it up again with a grease remover. Without doing so, applying water-based paint to an oil-covered door or surface won't ensure that the paint will stick. It would be best if you also used 120-grit sandpaper to get the surface from being glossy to matte. Additionally, there's no need to get down to the bare wood. Then, before you start the repainting, sweep or vacuum up any debris on all surfaces. Keep in mind that even just a few pieces of dust can genuinely ruin the final look of your cabinet.

#3 Remove and Label

People tend to overlook these to save time. But it’s necessary to take out the doors, pull out the drawers, and remove the knobs and hinges. In no time, your cabinets and hardware will start to chip and show signs of wear if you do not do so. After repainting, you must replace the pieces where you take them from. To ensure this, you can label the doors, drawers, and knobs using numbers to help you remember where they should go. Using masking tape to do this will do just fine. Provide enough details in your labels. Stash the screws and hinges in a jar for safekeeping.

#4 Prime-Up and Organize

To avoid missing edges and corners, you can easily lay painter pyramids to maneuver a brush around the bottom edges. Avoid knots from appearing in the wood by applying a stain-blocking primer before repainting. Also, it would help considered picking the right colour for your kitchen. You can paint on a big poster board with a tester of the chosen colour and hang it up next to your backsplash and your appliances to see if they go well for your taste. Then, when doing the actual painting, know what surface to paint over first. You can start by painting first the back of the doors instead of the front.

#5 Be Patient

In this final step, all you have to do is wait. Sure, waiting for paint to cure can become super annoying. However, you must go through it; unless you wish to do everything all over again just because you were impatient, and you accidentally smudged the paint to check if it was dry enough.

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