DIY Cabinet Painting | A Blue-tiful Kitchen Transformation

thanks to Birch for sponsoring this video. I've painted hundreds of pieces of furniture over the years, but I have yet to get into

painting

kitchen

cabinet

s and that's about to change. This is the basement that came with our house when we bought it. It's been a little over a year and a half and most of the time we use this space to store furniture for my flips while they wait to find their forever home, but during the summer months we use it as a functional apartment for any friends or family who want to go out to visit, we've already upgraded the flooring here done over the small bathroom and bedroom in other videos, but it's finally time for me to tackle these ugly oak

cabinet

s in the

kitchen

we're on the coast and I've loved using lots of

blue

s coastal aquatics in the design and decor of this home, including the guest bedroom that is off this kitchen, and my plan here is to paint these cabinets a really rich navy

blue

and then change the hardware to something a little more contemporary speaking In this room, although I need to tell you all about the bed we have here, specifically this birch mattress, every guest we've had here so far has fallen on their head.

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I don't see myself ever reusing them on a piece of furniture and as I remove each door and each hinge I am going to label everything with a number that will match where it came from and I am also going to put the same number on the inside of the cabinet, so I know exactly where everything goes when it's time to start putting things back together, the faces of my drawers come off too so I'm going to unscrew them and then I won't have to pull the entire drawer out It took me about 45 minutes disassembled everything in this small kitchen and now I'm going to take the doors and drawer fronts to the garage so I can clean them.

This is probably the most important part of

painting

things. especially since these have been in a kitchen, not that they have had much use in the past, but any type of kitchen will put oils into the air that create the perfect sticky film for dust and dirt to adhere to and somehow also they do it. so the paint doesn't want to stick so I'm scrubbing them inside and out with a simple green all purpose cleaner and a scouring pad and then rinsing everything with clean water and a microfiber cloth. Some of the doors had these plastic hooks. on the inside so I just used my heat gun, a hair dryer would also work to heat up the glue a bit and then I used my painter's tool to scrape them off.

I'm going to try some of this Durham Rock Hard Water Putty to fill these hardware holes. I have never tried this before but some of you recommended that it is a powder that you mix with water and it says to only mix a small amount at a time because it dries very quickly. but let's try it. I put a little piece of tape inside the holes, put some filling in, and then punched it like I would pie dough to remove any air pockets and make sure it was a solid filling throughout. Now I have to go back to the basement and wash all the frames, once everything was clean and dry I masked the walls and ceilings where I needed to and I'm going to leave everything inside the closets and why not I really don't want to put in the effort or the expense of masking this entire space and finding ventilation down here to be able to spray the boxes.

I'm going to brush and roll them and then spray the garage doors. Well, this filler that's supposed to dry really fast isn't dry yet, so I think I'm going to go into town to pick up a new can of primer and pick up some paint, and hope it's dry when I get home. I grabbed a gallon of this shellac based primer, it's a lot more than I need but I'll be able to use it on other projects later and then I found this high heat polish that should work for the range hood and I got two quarts of satin. cabinet paint that had the mix in Bears poppy seed color.

I've been at Home Depot for an hour and a half and this is still not dry. I do not know what I did wrong. I guess I mixed it too loose too. wet, it took another hour for this to dry completely but as soon as it did I used 120 grit sandpaper to smooth it out and then very quickly went over each door just to scrape up the finish that was there and give it the primer it has more micro texture to grip on, but honestly, the container primer I bought adheres very well to almost any surface and since these oak cabinets already have a great open grain texture, this really isn't necessary here on a door laminate or anything with a high gloss finish, although sanding is definitely a necessary step.

Good morning, second day. I need to cover these countertops. I need to lower the range hood and then I think I'm ready to start priming these cabinets I put up. I took out my drop cloth and then set up some painters pyramids and any old paint cans I had lying around so I could get the doors off the floor and cleaned all the dust as I went and then started priming with a foam roller, this smells bad, so you want to work in a well-ventilated area and wear a respirator, and it's a bit unpleasant to clean, so I like to just line my tray with some aluminum foil or plastic and then use a cheap rolling pin. head that I can throw away when I'm done and when I was done with this first coat it was dry enough to apply a second when I finished priming the inside the garage doors were ready to be flipped and I continued down the front sides then cleaned the vent with the same grade of oiler and decided it would probably be a good idea to mask all the important stuff inside so as not to make a big mess.

There, I then took it out to the driveway to spray my first coat of this high temperature spray. It says priming is not recommended with this and to apply two light coats for full coverage in the garage, I gave it all the primer. These doors I sanded again with a 400 grit this time to make sure there wasn't that orange peeling roller texture there and to fix the little beads that had formed in the corners. I cleaned all that dust again and then took off the paint. This time I grabbed my Wagner Flexio electric sprayer because I haven't cleaned my pneumatic spray gun from my last painting project yet, and then I put a paper paint strainer in the container and poured about half the cart in there.

The instructions on this paint specifically say not to thin it and I've added a little water in previous projects and it extends the drying time significantly, so I'm not going to thin it today. This gun can totally handle viscosity. of this painting anyway, so it will be fine. I tested my settings on some cardboard and then got to work spraying these doors starting from the back. I like to keep the nozzle about 8 inches away from the surface with a closed wrist and overlap each stroke by about 50%. It took me a full 15 minutes to apply the first coat and then I turned the hood over again and sprayed another few coats of white paint on top.

Next, I grabbed the rest. of my paint, a short-nap velvet roller, and a small paintbrush to start on the boxes in the basement. This paint has incredible self-leveling, so you don't want to put too much paint on it at one time or it will start to drip or sink. I used my brush to cut in any places where the roller didn't fit well and then rolled out the rest. I definitely should have done a better job taping these drawers because I covered them in paint, not that it really matters much. Outline things because the faces will cover it anyway, but it's not as clean a job as I normally like to do and this is what the first layer looks like.

I let it dry for about 5 hours and then did a second coat and let everything cure overnight, well day three, we're almost in the home stretch. I think I'm going to flip all of these doors and give them another two coats of paint today. I can also, I think I'm going to remove all the masking. In the basement, I put the second coat on them yesterday and it looks amazing. My new hardware should be ready tomorrow and once it's here I can start putting everything back together. I flipped all the doors and just put some rags on top of the plinths I had.

I set it up so the fresh paint wouldn't stick and ruin that nice smooth finish and then I took my sprayer again and repeated the process on the front sides. I left everything overnight again to give the paint a chance to harden a little more first. I started playing with hardware and putting things back together, it's a super durable paint but it takes a few days to get there and then about 30 days for a full cure so you just have to be a little more careful and cautious with it the first time. time. A little bit on the fourth day I put a blanket on my table and started bringing the doors in in pairs so I could screw the hinges into place and then digging helped me hang them back on the boxes, it's definitely a lot easier to hold. and put the screws in the right place with an extra pair of hands as we went.

I had these new felt pads that I simply glued to the top inside corner of each door to prevent the doors from slamming shut when you close them because they are definitely not modern soft-close hinges and two to prevent the two painted surfaces from coming together. touch because the paint will stick to itself and cause damage over time. This is the new hardware I found on Amazon. It is a brushed antique brass finish that matches the hinges. They were already here and I love it too, it's super affordable. I'm going to use the PS cup on the drawers and then the knobs will go on the doors and I'm using this template I found at Home Depot to help me measure.

I measured my new holes to find the center point of the width of the drawer and then the template simply sat on the top edge and I marked the level I wanted with the 3 inch hole locations on the template and drilled my new holes into the template . I didn't have a mark I liked for the knob location, so Doug measured all of that for me. Is the best. Now all that's left is to clean up my mess and add some new decor. I found this paint at the thrift store and I love the colors, it even has that green blue gray that matches the stove and I'm going to top it off with other thrift finds and some things we already had around the house.

I'm so happy I finally did it. I think these cabinets add a lot more character to the space and make it feeleven more like home. It took me most of the week to finish, but nothing was particularly difficult to make and I only ended up using about half a quart. of primer and one of the quarts of paint I bought, so with that and the new hardware, this entire project only cost me about $150. I hope you enjoyed following this process with me and maybe learned a trick or two and If you're not already, make sure you're subscribed to the channel for tons of furniture inspiration and tutorials.

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