How To Prep Wood Cabinets For Painting

Watch to learn how to paint kitchen cabinets like a pro.

How to prep wood cabinets for painting. Next take your Frog Tape and run a strip of tape around the inside edge of the 3 remaining sides of the cabinet box. Painting over old cabinets is a really popular DIY project that a lot of home owners have been tackling the last few years. The first paint-prep step after cleaning grease from cabinets is usually filling unwanted holes dents and dings with spackling or wood filler.

Any professional painter will tell you that preparing something for paint is the most essential aspect of painting. You can use liquid dish soap such as Dawn Simple Green M1 liquid deglosser TSP or you can use a product called Krud Kutter. A green Scotch-Brite pad works great to scrub all surfaces.

Test your paint sprayer to. 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. Optional Fill all cracks and detail with caulk.

For larger surfaces you can use a paint stripper. Painting cabinets will take several days to complete so plan accordingly. Before you begin sanding or painting clean all of the surfaces to be repainted with a solution made from one part tri-sodium phosphate and four parts water.

Prep your paint and paint sprayer with the correct dilution of distilled water. Now carefully pull out the plastic and tuck it along the edge of the frog tape that you just applied. Unscrew the kitchen knotty pine cabinets doors and remove them from the hinges.

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. The process for preparing solid oak cabinets for painting is just as important as the process for actually painting them. Always wear the appropriate safety gear and open the windows for ventilation.