Step 2: Prep Your Kitchen Cabinets for Painting The first rule of cabinet repainting: Make sure the cabinets and doors are clean and dry. Use a gentle grease remover and a damp sponge to wipe them clean and let dry thoroughly. After cleaning, it’s time to roughen things up...
I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I am still working on my kitchen cabinets whenever I have time. I just finished the stage of making the drawers. My island only needs two drawers, so it was pretty quick. If you want to learn how to make dovetail drawers, then check out the video...
–Set up a workstation for painting drawers, shelves, and doors. This worktop provides access to all sides of a cabinet door to minimize interruptions when drying. 2. Remove the fittings –Unscrew the hinge screws from the cabinet frame and remove the doors. –Moving from left to right, to...
This is also the time when you should cover countertops and use painter’s tape around edges of the cabinet frames. Make sure to create a space where you can paint the doors and drawers, too. Credit:Diana Paulson 2. Remove cabinet hardware. ...
–Remove all cabinet doors and drawers, and label them with painters tape so you know where they go back. –Clean the cabinets with a degreaser to remove any grease or grime. 2. Remove the doors, drawers, and shelves: Remove the doors, drawers, and shelves: ...
But more typically kitchen cabinets specifically need a thorough cleaning with a degreaser, followed by numerous wipes with a moist cleaning cloth to be sure that every last trace of kitchen grease is removed. Open GalleryStep 2: Remove the doors, drawers, and hardware. Remove the doors and ...
What separates a well-made cabinet from a cheap imitation? Here are the quality features to look for, and some flimsy ones to avoid: 1 Drawers. Best have solid-wood sides, dovetail joinery, and a plywood bottom that fits grooves on four sides. Avoid stapled particleboard. 2 Drawer ...
Have a kitchen base cabinet with shelves that are disorganized and hard to reach? Make it work with these step-by-step instructions on how to convert shelves to drawers. Recently, I have been on a quest to get organized. And I have now moved on to the kitchen which can really use some...
Paint cabinet drawer fronts.Again, I used a paintbrush to paint the back of the drawer fronts and a roller to roll out the fronts. DO NOT paint the sides of the actual drawers. You are only painting the panels attached to the fronts of the drawers. I also painted the backs of those ...
drawers and shelves, but to take it up a level, you can also create a drying rack with two small ladders and two 2x4s. Simply lay the 2x4s on the top rack of both ladders and screw eye hooks into both 2x4s to hang the painted items. To make sure...