HOW TO PAINT YOUR KITCHEN CABINETS THE BEST WAY - How to paint kitchen cabinets without a sprayer

Hello, if you are in this situation right now, like I was in about a month ago, where you were tired of the way

your

kitchen

cabinets

look, they were dated, maybe too dark for

your

taste and you don't want to shell out money for get them. They were professionally refinished and also you don't have it in your budget to completely replace them, so stick around because this video is for you, hey, this is delicious, you're lucky to be the next door neighbor, welcome back to my channel, how can you see. I'm in my freshly

paint

ed

kitchen

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I recently shared my kitchen reveal where I did an overhaul and re

paint

ed my kitchen

cabinets

to brighten the space. I know many of you have been waiting for this video because you too want to do the same and this. is the video where I share step by step everything I do and what I use to get as close as possible to a professional finish now a couple of things before we start I want to mention that this is not a sponsored post on Anyway, I will share different types of products that I use and love during the time I have been painting cabinets in my house.

I am NOT a professional, I am just an avid DIYer and prefer to do things on my own to save money, yes I will share the color I use to paint my kitchen cabinets white, but I know several of you who saw my reveal video you guys have been wondering what the color of my paint is on the walls that you see back there and before. Get started I don't want to forget that the color is rest gray by Sherwin Williams. It's my favorite neutral gray. It has no mafia undertones, no blue undertones or brown undertones.

Seriously, it's the most neutral gray and I wear it everywhere. my house now, this video is packed with a ton of information. I'm literally going to tell you everything I do when I paint a kitchen cabinet, all the products I use, and some tips I have to share along the way, so be sure to sit back, relax, and enjoy all the information you're getting. point to get. Let's go ahead and start my process. Well, the first thing you need to do is remove all the cabinet doors and hardware from your wall units. Make sure you do it as soon as possible. as you remove the cabinets you label them and one way we have found or my husband has found to be the easiest is to number them from one end of the kitchen on all sides and the top one is usually t1 t2 t3 and then you start in the same place at the bottom b1 b2 b3 so we can keep track of which door goes in which cabinet.

This will make setup when we're done much easier and what we use is basically a normal frog tank which I like. frog tape because it's a little bit more sensitive towards your cabinets or your walls or whatever, so we like to use this one and basically you just take a pin or a marker and put it on the side of the cabinet doors. You'll be like, well, Yami, I'm cleaning it up. You know, I'll paint them right when you're working on one side of the cabinet door, you have the tape on the other, when you have to turn it over and work. on the other side you will remove it and place it on the other side of the cabinet, that way you will always have a sticker and know exactly what goes where, so after removing them from the actual wall units you will want to place those doors on somewhere like a garage, you'll be surprised that I don't sand any of my cabinets, my doors, or anything before I prepare them for painting.

I just use a really good old lobster cleaner and this is what I recommend. Gloucester m1 paint and prepaid cleaner I like it because it works on both latex and oil based finishes it is also safe to use indoors and outdoors it comes ready to use basically all I do is put it in a glass container and use a lint remover -Free cloth. I have these that I like to use and I'll be sure to link all of this below for you guys. You can also use an old t-shirt which also works well, but basically you put this in a bowl, wet the rag and wipe down all your cabinets.

Now the reason you want to do this is because you're going to want to take that glossy exterior finish of the cabinet so your primer will adhere much better to the kitchen as well. it's a place where we all cook there's degrees there's oil there's steam there's heat and there's a lot of stuff that builds up in the cabinets because these are the cabinets we open and close the most so you're going to want to give it a good cleaning. Before you start anything now while using this, you should wear some gloves to protect your hands.

I recommend some nitrile gloves and I use them a lot when I do this. You know, smaller projects, craft projects while I paint products around the house. these are good, a little more affordable now I have another option that is much more industrial and much more tear resistant and I really like these for painting with thicker paints and things like cabinets and they are called the steel poison and nitrile gloves and these are highly tear resistant and work great. I'm also going to go ahead and like these in the description box below, so I want to jump in real quick and give everyone a quick disclaimer.

Now these were the cabinets and how. They look like they did before painting, as you can see, they have a very professional finish and are in very good condition. Obviously, that's why we didn't have to sand them. However, if you have cabinets that had previous DIY work, that is absolutely horrible, there are chips, there are drip lines, there are streaks that you definitely want to sand before you do any priming. Now the nice thing is that you don't need to sand down to the bare wood, all you need to do is make sure everything is sanded and smooth, so not only will you be washing those doors both inside and out because I like to paint my doors both outside and inside because it looks much more professional.

You'll also want to use that wash on the cabinets left in the actual kitchen, you know, the two on the walls and the base. Now I don't clean the inside of my cabinets because I don't paint the inside. my cabinets and I'll show you what areas I actually paint on the inside so everything looks nice and fresh wherever it hits the door. I'll give you a close up of that, okay, after Once you've cleaned all your cabinets and let them dry, make sure you follow the directions on the bottle. Well, once that's done, what you're going to want to do is place a drop cloth where you're going to have them. sitting cabinets or so you can paint them and I will also link some drop cloth options below.

Also, if you don't mind getting paint on your garage floor, that's totally fine, you don't need one, but there's something that I recommend because you're going to want to pick them up off the floor wherever they are, you're going to want to use these little stands now you can get them. at any hardware store and they may look like this or something like that, so what? What you're going to do is put them on the bottom or on the floor wherever you have your cabinet and you're going to put it on top of the cabinet so it's on the floor, okay?

You don't necessarily have to use them because these things here, if you have kids, you know what they are and they're usually everywhere, these things work well, they're about the same height and you can totally use them for the corners of your cabinets to putting them on top won't cost you anything and look, there's even a little bit of paint, so yeah, I definitely use them when I don't have enough to prop up my cabinet doors, okay? After all. It has been cleaned and given a D shine and everything that has completely dried is ready to be primed and just before you prime you just want to make sure that you tape off any areas that you don't want to paint.

Now you can do this on the walls at the base of your cabinets, such as near your floors, as well as inside your cabinets, where you want the paint to stop. I recommend a frog tape because it has less amount of filtration, I guess, under the tape, you get a lot of sharper lines. with this and it's a lot it seems a little more delicate on your surfaces now my husband and I have painted a lot we don't think it's necessary to cover the floor but one thing if you don't feel comfortable and I want to cover the brown.

I recommend a product that is great. It's basically a blue tape with plastic on the bottom and you basically just peel it off like this, put it on the ground and then peel off this plastic right here. It's so easy to install that it definitely pulls out and reaches about 48 inches, so it provides very good floor coverage. If you are afraid of getting paint splashed on your kitchen floor, it just depends on how experienced you are. and how comfortable are you with that now, the

best

primer I recommend for this is an oil based primer and I prefer the one from Sherwin Williams which is called pro block primer.

Now this thing sells for around $3,540 I think, but I like it. and I'll show you in a clip what really happens to a piece of furniture or cabinet or whatever when you don't use oil based paint underneath, especially when you have wood cabinets like mine, mine are real wood cabinets, there will be grain . There will be knots on your cabinets as well as oil stains because that's where we cook, so if you have any of those on your cabinets and you don't want them to seep through your paint and your beautiful, hard work, definitely use a base product. of oil. primer that you will find and I have a very large stirring rod here, you don't need one that big, but this is the only one that I can find that was not used, you will find it obviously just like you will have to mix it.

Okay, so a lot of oil-based primers feel very runny when you work with them, when you stir them, when you pour them, they're very watery, and then when you apply them, whether with a brush or a roller. You will find that it drags and wants to stay stuck to where you are playing it and it is very strange because the consistency in the real can is really working now. I have discovered that this does less, now there is another one. one that you can use, there is one per sensor, it is also an oil based primer that you can use, but you should know that it may drag a little more than this one, so that has been my experience.

I had used both, they both work, but only Those are like the differences between Sherwin Williams and a sensor. This is what happens when you have a piece of wood that you paint with latex paint but it turns out to have like a knot or an oil stain underneath. eventually it leaks out and you can see there's more back there now these are my first two DIY pieces of furniture and this little table is super old and we have it now in the basement and we've pretty much always had it for maybe in the garage for storage so which is pretty worn out and that's why I haven't retied it, but I'm glad I haven't because here I can give you a great example of what happens to a knot. or oil stain under latex paint when you don't apply that oil-based primer.

Now I like to apply my primer with a brush and roller because a lot of times you'll have little wrinkles in your cabinets and you'll want to get into all those little nooks and crannies, but you'll also want a nice smooth finish on the faces of your cabinet doors and the side panels, so you will need to use a roller and brush for this. Alright, here are the tools I use to apply my own base primer. I like to use this little Purdy four inch handle roller applicator. I like this one, not the one with the stick adjustment because it works with my favorite roller of all time and it's the Worcester pro it's four and a half inches by 1/4 inch and this is the shed resistant fabric.

I'll be sure to link it below. I found that this roller here is the

best

for cabinets, now that they come off. sturdy however sometimes you might find a little fuzzy here but it sheds the least and as you can see it has a big hole so you will need one of these again. I highly recommend this particular roller because I have used many. This is the one that gives you the most beautiful and professional look. I absolutely do not recommend using a foam roller on your cabinets and for the roller I like to use a small disposable plastic tray, now it's very lightweight, it costs about a dollar. your local hardware store and what I like about this roller um in particular as you see these old lips right here, when you have this on something like this, it stops the light from coming in completely and saturating everything so you can see it. it stays otherwise it would all be up there and if it's too full like you add too much paint in there and you can stick all this stuff together and it becomes a mess so another reason I like this Perverted Little Roller is because you've got that there okay now for the brush and this little one here has been with me for a long time.

I have a couple of these and these are my favorite brushes of all time. It's a 2. inch Short Handle Purdy angled synthetic brush, I say that three times fast, but it's definitely my ride or die brush. I like it for the angle. I like it. You can make very sharp edges with it. The handle is the most comfortable. for my hand it cleans very well obviously not the handle but the bristles and this is what I prefer again just scroll down for yourselves below.Works great with both latex paint and antique paint. I will say though, I don't mix my brushes if I use oil based paint with one brush, I will label that oil quick and only use oil based paint with that brush.

I also do the same thing.What about the scrambled ones and I definitely use a marker like a Sharpie to identify which is the oil based paint. You don't want to mix them either now, along with this I use this cute little candy bucket for the paint. I like this because it fits. for different hand widths and you know my husband's hands are a lot bigger than mine so he needs a little more space here, well you can squeeze it and it fits comfortably in your hand and it's great if you have to. Climb a ladder like I do because I'm short and need to reach the top of my cabinets.

It holds very well in your hands. You don't have to worry about it falling. Another thing is great: it comes with these. cute liners so you don't ruin your real cube, you can just take it out and throw it away once you're done. Another big advantage of this is that it has the magnet on the back, here, so that your brush doesn't end up falling into the paint, you know, because that happens to all of us, so it basically sticks right there and doesn't slide around. in paint, so I think this is one of the best investments my husband and I have made so far.

I just do a good coat of primer. If you do it right, take your time and make sure everything is nice and covered. You only need one coat now if you can get someone to help you paint your cabinets. That's amazing if we have to do it ourselves. I suggest you prepare both the brush and the roller at the same time because this is kind of what my husband liked to do to get the best effect. Now I like to use the brush first. and it starts with all the nooks and crannies, all the crevices, any of the embellishments that need to get there, you know you need to get in there.

I started with the brush first and then he immediately comes behind with the roller and rolls and smoothes everything out. It's best to do both steps in a row because when you have the paint freshly put on there and still nice and wet, this guy will go in and flatten everything out gently if you let it dry for a while, it'll get a little sticky and the roller won't be able to smooth out any brush strokes that it might. have received in the flat panel area, so again do this as quickly as possible, do the brush and all the premises and then go over with the roller. to smooth everything out and I promise you it will give you a good finish.

Now when you're priming the doors, you want to start with the inside of the panel first because remember you're going to have to let it dry, turn it over, and then. You're going to have to make the top. Always when I paint I always do the ideas first and then I always finish on top because if for some reason the inside gets messed up or you know something, it sticks to one of these, it won't. Not if it's dry, but if it is, the inside is much easier to hide than the outside of a cabinet door, so always aim to start with the inside panel and finish with the outside door panel, so after you have all your doors primed both back and front, as well as the base, cabinets and upper cabinets that might have been left behind in your kitchen, you are ready to clean those tools, now paint with paint oil based, you will have to clean with mineral spirits and this type of dust has been in the garage.

I like to use the clean strip. odorless mineral spirits. Now it says odorless, but all mineral spirits have been older. This just isn't that much, so yeah, just remember that you're going to have to do it. clean everything with mineral spirits and you may need to check with your local county or a stage or city on how to properly dispose of this in your area, but keep in mind that now the only time we sand the cabinets is after they have been primed and Typically use a sanding block for this medium to fine grit, depending on how thick you applied the primer.

Now, this is basically to smooth out any streaks or anything you see coming through the primer that you may have missed when cleaning, but Honestly, this is the only time my husband is pretty much the guy who does this for me, you just sit there and just smooth everything out, reserve the inside and outside of the cabinet doors or anything that we may have missed on the cabinets. Do you know what has been left on the wall or on the base? But yeah, that's really the only time we support anything and it's just the lights and each one of them maybe smoothes everything out, any little bumps here or there that may have occurred during the priming and get it ready for the actual painting process now, of course you want to make sure you take another damp, you know, lint free cloth and remove all the dust before you apply the paint, so now we're getting ready to paint now that our primer is dry, everything has been cleaned and disposed of properly, we're going to start painting our cabinets and this is the type of paint that I used in this kitchen that you guys saw and I've actually used it several times and it's my best paint for the job so the paint that I'm talking about is emerald, let me see, I'll show you it's called Asher and Williams urethane trimmed polish.

I'll show you right there, it's one of their newer formulas and it's very expensive, I'm not going to lie, this thing now sells for about ninety-three dollars a gallon, hear me out. Sherwin Williams has sales all the time that range from thirty to forty percent off his paintings, this is included, okay, so we definitely get it. This type of paint whenever it is on sale, if you think about it, will still cost about sixty dollars, but I personally think that if you use a higher quality paint to do the job, it will last much longer and if you think about it, you are already saving thousands of dollars by hiring someone to do the work for you.

It makes sense to get a very good quality paint to paint your cabinets. Now I use it for my private kitchen. I use the extra white color. this is the paint that or the high end paint from Sherwin Williams used to paint the baseboard moldings, the door frames, the window sills, all that kind of stuff and when they did this and they created this formula and the I used in my cabinets. It sold, this isn't even the paint they recommend for cabinets, but I promise you I don't like the paint they recommend for cabinets. I like this, I use it in semi-gloss and the reason I would use it.

It's in semi-gloss because I personally don't prefer them to be very shiny like I can see my reflection in my kitchen cabinets, but I don't prefer anything less in semi-gloss because it's so easy to clean. wipe anything off your cabinets and it will come off and I'm telling you this because this paint here is so high quality, so cleanable, so amazing, oh my gosh, I don't get paid for these people, but you don't have to use a top coat afterwards of applying this paint that's why I love it so much, it's definitely expensive but it saves you a step and I'll show you the difference between something that's painted with this alone, which is this right here.

I'll do a close up so you can see it compared to the cabinets I've done before, where I actually used something like polycrylic on top. I don't like how it looks and you will like it. I definitely see why so I'm actually here in my laundry room and this is one of the first cabinets that I used when I moved into this house and that was when I was still applying polyacrylic on the surface of my painted cabinets and like you can, Look here, this is what polyacrylic does to cabinets, no matter what finish it has, whether it's satin matte semi-gloss, it tends to scratch and if you can see it here where my finger is, it depends on how the light hits it and, honestly, this.

It's not my laundry room so it just bothers me a lot, but in my kitchen I definitely don't want to end up like that because it shows, as you can see here how the cameras capture it, it's more noticeable in person. So this is basically why I no longer use polycrylate over my cabinets. Now this is what my cabinets look like up close. Whatever you see like these little lines are here, which is the whole grain of the real wood cabinet and I actually like that it shines, I think it makes it look a little more sophisticated that way, but as you can notice, in You actually know that there are no stripes, there are no stripes at all.

All you see on the cabinet is the finished cabinet itself and there are no scratches and depending on how you look at it, that's why I like to use that trim enamel paint without any cover or sealant or anything on top of it because it gives you that smooth finish and nice no streaks at all and no I don't know if you know this but to get the right amount of coverage on your cabinets you're going to have to apply it three times yes three times so if you think about how many times you have to apply it and let it dry. apply it and let it dry, apply it and let it dry, it will save you a lot of time, another thing you will notice with this paint and I just want to let you know because if you end up buying it, you will notice that it has a different smell than your normal paint.

To me, your normal paint smells like plasticine. I don't know why, but it smells like playdough and I actually like the way it smells because it's so different than not. It doesn't smell like paint, one more thing, this paint is so amazing it can actually be used on exterior walls on the outside of your house so that's another reason I love this because it's made to withstand the outside elements, so put it on. inside and you have a Furillo that will not let you down now. I apply it exactly the same way as my primer. I also use the same type of brushes.

I use my ankle band and then I go right behind and use my nice little one. roller to get everything nice and smooth, however instead of just applying one coat like I do with my primer, I use two coats, two really nice coats of this paint and that's all you need now, the actual cabinets out there in your house are really simple of You're going to do it one more time and then you're going to wait until it dries and they're going to do another one, but then there are the doors, so what I like to do is in the morning I go out and do the inside of the cabinets they let it dry all day that night I come back and do the second coat then I let it cure overnight before turning it over now if you live in a very hot climate if you are doing this during the summer and it is very humid for inside I would probably sit for about two nights because you know it's going to be ready to flip and these things won't affect the paint when you flip it over to paint the other side of the cabinet, if it's not sticky you want it to be really nice and smooth and dry before you to do it, usually one night is enough unless you have very hot and humid temperatures outside and your stuff is in the garage, if you do it in a cool environment like a basement you will only need to do it overnight, then I do the same with the outside of the cabinets once I turn them over and the cabinet tape that is wet is on the bottom that has already been painted.

I paint one coat in the morning and let it dry all day. and then I come back at night and do my second coat then I let it cure overnight before doing anything the next day since you are going to paint several different times with the same paint you don't have to clean your tools every time now I do this with my latex, not with my oil-based paint, I do do those, but what you can do is take your roller and wrap it from your kitchen, you wrap it very well. and you put it in your refrigerator, yeah, and I actually have one in there as we speak, but it definitely preserves it, keeps it nice and moist and ready for the next application, so you don't have to wash it or throw it away. it saves you a little money no I don't do this with my brushes I only do it with my roller because the paint tends to build up between the bristles and I don't like that so I have a little bit of a wire brush where I brush it while I wash it under water to get everything out from between the bristles and yes, I wash this between each application to make sure it lasts as long as this little one has lasted now before.

I actually like to put the doors back in the new environment, maybe if it's been in the garage. I like to take them into the basement or take them somewhere inside the house and let them acclimate now. The reason I do this is because enamel paint tends to harden over time and the tighter they fit the harder the cover becomes, it just seals the cabinets and creates a huge top layer that hardens so I left them almost a week. Before we put them back in the cabinets, everything worked perfectly again and we were very happy with it, so that's basically it.

I know I covered a moment in this video. I know it was a lot of information. I think I covered absolutely everything, if so. Any other questions, anything I missed, anything you're interested in, let me know in the comments below. There are many steps to this process; However, if you do it right, if you follow everything, if you don't get too far ahead. And you know, sometimes we see something coming to fruition and we want to speed up the process. You definitely want to do it. This is one of those things where you want to take your time and you want to do it right from start to finish. finish so that the final product lasts many more years this ismy personal opinion this is what I recommend this is what I use and this is what I endorse you will definitely get a lot of satisfaction from doing this yourself and this is honestly the best process and the best way to get closer to professional finishing on your kitchen cabinets .

I hope this was informative. I hope you learned something from this. Be sure to share this video with your friends who may have been thinking about you. You know, change your kitchen. This is definitely a way to go when you don't have the budget to have someone else do it for you or to replace your cabinets entirely and I love nothing more than being able to help you try to figure out how to make your home look its best for a while . Much less good, so I hope to see you in the next video until then, let's have