Painting Laminate Cabinet Doors

Label your cabinet doors and remove them and all their hardware.

Painting laminate cabinet doors.

The finish is slick so you ll have to make sure you put in the prep work for a quality finish. Paint kitchen cabinet doors drawers and bases. Replacing your cabinets is the most expensive option cabinetry constitutes nearly three quarters of the price of a new kitchen. Painting laminate kitchen cabinets is an easy budget friendly way to update your kitchen.

To paint laminate cabinets start by removing the hardware cleaning the surface and sanding the cabinets with medium grit sandpaper until the surface feels smooth. These cabinets come in a wide variety of styles and some are even made with slightly different materials. Laminate is a printed plastic that is adhered on top of a base layer usually a composite material. Leave the cabinet doors attached to the frames for now.

If it s particleboard save yourself a lot of pointless trouble and either paint over the laminate or consider getting new cabinets. Unscrew your cabinet drawers this is the fun bit. Ah so satisfying. Your choice depends on how much you want to spend.

Using a high quality self. The door interior is composed of less expensive wood materials. Painting laminate cabinets can be a cinch. Painting laminate cabinets changing out the doors and entirely replacing the cabinets are all possibilities.

Watch as lou manfredini ace s home expert show you how your can paint laminate cabinets for an affordable. Laminate cabinets are made of a thin film of material that has been bonded to the exterior surfaces of the cabinet door. As explained above and in my tutorial on painting a bathroom vanity the paint we used for painting our laminate kitchen cabinets was the benjamin moore advance line. Have a laminate cabinet doors you want to update.

Take the doors down from the cabinets and paint them. Next roll on a coat of bonding primer and let it dry completely. Painting laminate kitchen cabinets is possible but more tricky than painting wood or mdf cabinets. Use a roller to apply chalky finish paint to the cabinet doors.

Be careful of drips or paint build up. Prime them for perfect color with these tips for surface prep paint selection and application. Grab your screwdriver and get busy unscrewing all your doors drawer fronts and their handles.