Painting Kitchen Cabinets - Imperfectly Polished

Painting Kitchen Cabinets - Imperfectly Polished

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You can read 10 different blogs on how to paint kitchen cabinets and you will probably read 10 different tutorials. Water or oil based? Brush or roll? Sand or not sand?  I think its all up to you.  Ill give you the steps on how I did mine and reasons why I made the choices I did, but I honestly think you can do whatever you want.

Step 1: take cabinets off.  Ive read on many different tutorials that you should take off your doors and label them so you know where to put them back.  I didnt do this.  I painted one wall at a time {because I didnt have room to do it all at once, and frankly, I work better when I have small victories along the way} so as I took them off, I laid them out in the garage on my drop cloth in the same order they go back up.

This made it easy to take down and put back up and eliminated the step of labeling everything.

Next, I lightly sanded all the doors.

This is a personal choice.  I wanted to get rid of the graininess of the doors so I sanded it down a little.  Personal preference.

I did paint the fronts and backs of the doors but I only sanded the fronts because the backs did not have the graininess on them.

Step 3: paint.  I simplified here.  I used Behrs paint and primer-in-one in Pot o Cream.  Isnt that the perfect name for a kitchen color?  Anyway, this eliminated the priming step and saved some money by not having to buy the primer.  $30 for the whole kitchen! Pretty good, huh?  I rolled most of the doors but had to brush in the creases.  Tip: even though Pudge looks cute hanging out with me while I did this

And was a great watch dog for all those pesky people walking by

I wouldnt recommend painting cabinets with your dog because he might just do this

Seriously?  I was literally painting the door as he walked right over it like I wasnt even there.  Thats my puppy.

Anyway, here they were after one coat:

And after the 2nd coat:

I did a third touch-up coat on all the cabinets as well so three coats total.  As the doors were drying, I painted the cabinet fronts of the same wall.  See the insides of my cabinets?  I left those as-is.  The inside is very light and pretty so I didnt feel the need to paint them white also {once again, personal preference}.

I took the same steps with the fronts as I did with the doors.  I lightly sanded them by hand and then painted three coats all over.  For the drawers, I just pulled them out and painted the fronts by sitting them on the cabinets.  Here they are all pretty and white and done.

I think it took me about 12 hours total but it was worth every minute.  Pick a nice few days, sit outside with your cabinets and radio, and paint away.  It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be.  And if you thought the cabinets were good before, they are even better with our new counters:)

Next up on the kitchen how tos: subway tile backsplash.  I also have some fun accessory tutorials to share later this week so make sure you come back and see it all!


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