Paint oak kitchen cabinets
Not everyone likes a solid wood kitchen, and where you inherit and oak kitchen and want to paint the cabinets - you can! Gail of My Repurposed Life shows us how she give her oak kitchen cabinets a new look with paint.
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HERE'S HOW:
1. Wash down all doors, drawers and facings with warm soapy water, rinse and dry.
2. Use sugar soap to remove any remaining grease and help remove some of the shine.
3. Remove doors and drawer fronts, and all hardware.
Identify each door and drawer so that you know where each goes when it’s time to reinstall. You can use masking tape and a marker pen to mark each door and drawer.
4. Fill holes if you are changing out handles. I switched from handles to knobs so I only filled one hole on each door. On the lower doors I filled the lower hole, on the upper doors I filled the upper hole. Let dry, lightly sand.
5. Tape inside edge of all doors and drawer fronts. (I did not paint the inside of my cabinets.)
6. Lightly sand doors and drawer fronts to remove any sheen. I used 220-grit sandpaper. I did the doors and drawer fronts outside. Make sure to wipe off ALL dust from sanding.
7. Lightly sand the front facings and ends of cabinets. I never emptied my cabinets. However, I had some small cheap garbage bags that I used to cover up my contents. After I finished sanding, I removed the plastic and threw it away. Wipe away all dust.
8. Tape off any areas that will be too difficult to keep paint from splattering. (I taped the edge where my counter top meets the front of the counter.
9. I applied two coats of oil-based primer as a base for all wood surfaces and applied with a foam roller, allowing drying time and lightly sanding in between coats. I allowed 24 hours in between every coat.
I did not tape any front facings. Using a foam roller helps the paint not to get inside the cabinets.
10. Take the doors and drawer fronts outdoors to spray with Rust-Oleum 2X Heritage White.
11. Use a small foam roller to paint the facings and ends of cabinets. Again, I let this coat dry 24 hours. All in all, I did about 4 light coats on the doors and drawer fronts with my sprayer. I did three light coats (foam roller) on all the facings and cabinet ends.
12. Allow all wood surfaces to fully cure before reinstalling.
13. Install all hardware and reinstall all doors and drawer fronts in their original places.