By Roy Berendsohn Many people, including me, have painted their kitchen cabinets and been perfectly happy with the results. Painting cabinets sounds old school compared to today's emphasis on tearing out the kitchen and starting over. Unless you've got the skill set and the tools for that, a complete kitchen redo is a budget buster. And painting your kitchen cabinets makes even more sense today than it did decades ago because today's paints and painting tools make it far easier to get topnotch results.
And I'm speaking from experience. I first lifted a paint brush in 1972. By the early 1980s, I had a one-man business painting whole houses along with doing the repair carpentry that came with it. Most of the time, I was using traditional alkyd resin paints. These were great coatings, but their chemical makeup had been developed decades earlier. It took a lot of patience, a lot of care, and a sense of timing to work with them. One slip of the brush or roller and there went your meticulous paint job.
Contrast that to today's paints. Many of the best are a blend of water- and solvent-based paint resins, such as acrylic-alkyd hybrids and acrylic-urethane hybrids. They apply beautifully, are forgiving to work with, and (drumroll) clean up with water.
When you combine those coatings with equally well developed paint brushes and rollers, plus a specialized primer known as an enamel undercoater, you're well on your way to getting professional results.
Here, we go in-depth on how to paint your kitchen cabinets. Read on for a list of tools and equipment you'll need, step-by-step instructions, and pro tips to help improve your odds of success.
By Roy Berendsohn Many people, including me, have painted their kitchen cabinets and been perfectly happy with the results. Painting cabinets sounds old school compared to today's emphasis on tearing out the kitchen and starting over. Unless you've got the skill set and the tools for that, a complete kitchen redo is a budget buster. And painting your kitchen cabinets makes even more sense today than it did decades ago because today's paints and painting tools make it far easier to get topnotch results.
And I'm speaking from experience. I first lifted a paint brush in 1972. By the early 1980s, I had a one-man business painting whole houses along with doing the repair carpentry that came with it. Most of the time, I was using traditional alkyd resin paints. These were great coatings, but their chemical makeup had been developed decades earlier. It took a lot of patience, a lot of care, and a sense of timing to work with them. One slip of the brush or roller and there went your meticulous paint job.
Contrast that to today's paints. Many of the best are a blend of water- and solvent-based paint resins, such as acrylic-alkyd hybrids and acrylic-urethane hybrids. They apply beautifully, are forgiving to work with, and (drumroll) clean up with water.
When you combine those coatings with equally well developed paint brushes and rollers, plus a specialized primer known as an enamel undercoater, you're well on your way to getting professional results.
Here, we go in-depth on how to paint your kitchen cabinets. Read on for a list of tools and equipment you'll need, step-by-step instructions, and pro tips to help improve your odds of success. |
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