How To Prep Wood Cabinets For Painting

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How to prep wood cabinets for painting. Remove the cabinet doors. Optional Fill all cracks and detail with caulk. Preparing The Cabinets For Primer.

Any professional painter will tell you that preparing something for paint is the most essential aspect of painting. Painting over old cabinets is a really popular DIY project that a lot of home owners have been tackling the last few years. Oak was and still is a really popular wood to build cabinets out of so the majority of these older kitchens and bathrooms are filled with oak cabinets.

Prep all of your drawers and cabinet doors for painting by cleaning with TSP substitute and repeating steps 7 through 12. Take your Hand Masker Dispenser and run a stip of plastic and tape along the top inside edge of the cabinet box. Painting cabinets will take several days to complete so plan accordingly.

Also for best results you should remove the doors and drawers and work on them in an area thats out of the way like a garage or basement. Test your paint sprayer to. Sand the surface of the wood.

Next take your Frog Tape and run a strip of tape around the inside edge of the 3 remaining sides of the cabinet box. For larger surfaces you can use a paint stripper. You can use liquid dish soap such as Dawn Simple Green M1 liquid deglosser TSP or you can use a product called Krud Kutter.

If theres any old paint or stain on the wood scrape it off using a metal scraper or wire brush. A green Scotch-Brite pad works great to scrub all surfaces. Watch to learn how to paint kitchen cabinets like a pro.