How to Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets
Ingredients
- Lots of time (not a weekend job)
- 2 quality paint brushes (like this)
- Small foam roller (like this)
- Quality paint (I used Benjamin Moore Advance in Acadia White which is basically a latex paint that acts like an oil paint. It’s self-leveling and dries to a very hard, very wipeable finish and you don’t have to use paint-thinner to clean your brushes!)
- Liquid de-glosser
- Quality primer (I used Zinnser)
- Optional: I chose to spray paint my old hinges instead of buying new ones… (I used Rustoleum Professional High Performance Enamel)
Instructions
- First, remove cabinet doors, hinges, and drawers
- Next, sand the drawer fronts, doors, and cabinet boxes with 100-grit sandpaper (An electric sander will be your best friend)
- Wipe sawdust off with a damp rag
- Apply a liquid de-glosser (This coats any leftover polyurethane or finish and makes sure the paint adheres. Some folks just do sanding OR de-glossing– but I did both to be safe)
- Apply two coats of quality primer
- Let each coat dry completely according to the manufacturer’s directions
- Apply 2-3 coats of quality paint
- Let each coat dry completely according to the manufacturer’s directions
- Optional: spray paint old hinges
Notes
After giving everything a couple more days to dry, we re-hung the doors and attached new knobs and drawer pulls.
