Painting Wood Kitchen Cabinets

You feel that your house is going to be busy for a few days as a few of your relations are coming to stay at your place? You feel that you must treat them royally as they had also given you the same treatment while you and your family had gone to their places? Yet you have one problem and that is your kitchen. You feel let down by your cabinet that has given you good service for the past seven years or so. Your only way to make the best of the situation is by painting wood kitchen cabinets by your choicest colors.

You have no idea as to what to do and you have slight fear as the cabinet has already seen a lot of rough use. Even your children and pets have left a lot of cracks and scratches on the lower cabinets. You feel completely stupefied and are not sure as to how to go about it. You can make use of these tips that this article would unfold before you.

Your first aim should be to determine the old cabinet’s wood condition. Although seven years is by no means a long time as good wooden cabinets have served for generations in some families. Yet all the same you may check up on the wood before you undertake painting wood kitchen cabinets at your home. Your first job is to decide on the wood of the cabinet. Perhaps you must have built the cabinet by doing it with a combination of different types of wood.

In such cases it is usually seen that the plywood and the fiber board are not quite durable and that certain cracks could have appeared on it. You then need to completely scrutinize the whole cabinet and mark the areas where the wood has to be removed. You may save the cost of removing the wood and replacing them by simply leaving it with a couple of coats of paint and call it your distressed cabinet.

If on the other hand you need to replace them then you may choose good solid wood from the salvage yard which can come at a very cheap price. After replacing them you may begin to clean your cabinet with some warm water and soap. You then dry it with a piece of dry cloth and after drying you need to sander them so as to remove all the old paint from the cabinet. It is after this that you need to apply the primer and then only start your work on painting wood kitchen cabinets with full concentration.