Kitchen cabinet painting

TTT_2

Hi all,
want to give my kitchen a face lift, the carcasses are all sound, don't want to replace the doors as some are large and odd sized. The doors are nasty orange pine but a nice shape with mouldings.
I have seen a couple of paint products (international and dulux) for doors but they seem to be for melamine- has anyone used either in my situation ?
Any hints / tips gratefully received! Labour is not an issue,as a homedaddy with kids at school it can be as laborious a job as it likes.

vickylee

We did the painting doors instead of replacing when we did our kitchen as we had a lot of odd sized doors. We had to sand all the existing varnish off first, and then just used undercoat & gloss for wood. Took a couple of coats though.

Worked fine for us and kitchen looked lovely!

Jeannine

Hi TTT, I think I'm in the same situation as you, with good quality wood units that definitely need a change of colour. I have bought special kitchen cabinet paint, by Crown I think, but I haven't been brave enough to start. I am intending to lightly sand the wood (there's no varnish) and then paint. Thing is, once started, there's no going back. I'd be interested to know what you are going to do.

robowen

A painter friend of mine advised me not to use a paintbrush.
He said you'll get better results with a tiny roller. You have to break the roller in on a piece of scrap wood first to get rid of fine hairs. Then it should be ok.
You need a small paintbrush for the parts the roller cant get to as well. But the roller is for the large flat areas.

rob

TTT_2

Thanks all,
sound advice with the roller- having looked closely at the paint available I think I will be just sanding,priming and then 2 coats of good paint.
Another tip I had off of a neighbour who is a decorator is to paint from the unpainted area to the painted-meant to minimise brush strokes for the fiddly areas.
Know what you mean Jeannine-there is definately no going back! I am going to have a try before the real thing on the back of one of the drawer fronts as won't be visable if/when I make a pigs ear of it.