How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets

Your need to paint your kitchen cabinets arises due to the dullness that comes due to aging. Most old cabinets are a bore when you watch them from close quarters and as familiarity breeds contempt as the saying goes your best option is to paint the cabinet with a different color. You should immediately start thinking about it seriously if your cabinet is in real bad shape. In fact, you may get some tips from the local painter as to how to paint kitchen cabinets.

You kitchen cabinet if made of fiber board or plywood  would surely show signs of sag or cracks as these are not quite lasting like solid wood cabinets. You must then remodel the same before you start to paint them. It must be borne in mind that remodeling involves the removal of old damaged wood and then in their place new woods are to be fixed. This can be expensive if you need to change a lot of wood. However, if you can get excellent solid woods from the salvage yard or you may choose to paint an unfinished cabinet bought from the stores.

How to go about with the painting work? If you and your spouse can do it together then you may save some money that you would have to pay to a professional painter. This is a bright spot yet you must have previous experience and should be able to understand different aspects of painting by looking for tips in the websites or from the local paint stores. This would be a great help when you think of how to paint kitchen cabinets at your home.

You should choose color so that they go well with the kitchen environment and the home in general. Yet if you are a person with exotic tastes and flamboyance then you may even choose bold startling color like red or green. In case of green color you may even choose to have your unfinished cabinet built out of wood purchased from the salvage yard so as to boast about your environmental friendly achievement.

You need to paint the cabinet in isolation and with all the contents or the cabinet taken out and later cleaned with warm water and soap. You need to sander them well with the electric sand or the sand paper to take off the old paint and then proceed to put primer on it. It is only after the primer is dried that you need to apply a minimum of two coats of paint over it. You may also get some details of how to paint kitchen cabinets from the home improvement magazines.