Guide To Repainting Kitchen Cabinets

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Repainting kitchen cabinets is really a pretty straight forward process. All it takes it the proper tools and materials and a little bit of patience and effort. Repainting kitchen cabinets can be a very satisfying family project too. Get everyone involved and make a weekend project of it!

There are few things in life as satisfying as finding a great deal on some beautiful old kitchen cabinets that just need a little TLC. So go ahead and buy those hideous pink kitchen cabinets with the great woodworking details and precise lines. With a little bit of elbow grease your kitchen cabinets will be good as new.

First things first: If the cabinets that need to be repainted have been finished, they will need to be stripped if you want the lines of the woodwork to show up nicely. You can find stripping solution at any hardware or home improvement store. Follow the instructions and be prepared for this process to be the most time consuming portion of the whole project.

If your cabinets are finished or painted, but seem to have only one or two thin coats that have mostly rubbed off, you can get by fine with sanding down the paint edges and roughing up the flat areas using a gritty sandpaper.

If you must use a stripping solution, be sure to take precautions and protect skin and eyes, as this stuff can be rather caustic. The annoying and time consuming part about stripping wood cabinets is that once you leave the goop on to begin dissolving and drawing out the finish, you must scrape the resulting gunk off of all the planes and crevices. ...