Painting Laminate Cabinet Doors

Watch as lou manfredini ace s home expert show you how your can paint laminate cabinets for an affordable.

Painting laminate cabinet doors.

These cabinets come in a wide variety of styles and some are even made with slightly different materials. Grab your screwdriver and get busy unscrewing all your doors drawer fronts and their handles. Have a laminate cabinet doors you want to update. If the laminate isn t peeling lift the edge from one of the doors to get a look at the underlying material.

Take the doors down from the cabinets and paint them. Painting laminate kitchen cabinets is possible but more tricky than painting wood or mdf cabinets. The finish is slick so you ll have to make sure you put in the prep work for a quality finish. Replacing your cabinets is the most expensive option cabinetry constitutes nearly three quarters of the price of a new kitchen.

Using a high quality self. Laminate cabinets are made of a thin film of material that has been bonded to the exterior surfaces of the cabinet door. Painting laminate kitchen cabinets is an easy budget friendly way to update your kitchen. If it s particleboard save yourself a lot of pointless trouble and either paint over the laminate or consider getting new cabinets.

Prime them for perfect color with these tips for surface prep paint selection and application. Unscrew your cabinet drawers this is the fun bit. Be careful of drips or paint build up. You ll want to be able to remember where everything goes when it comes time to put it all back together again so grab a packet of stickers or tabs and write numbers on each door so you know where to re fix them.

Leave the cabinet doors attached to the frames for now. Label your cabinet doors and remove them and all their hardware. Your choice depends on how much you want to spend. The door interior is composed of less expensive wood materials.

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. Paint kitchen cabinet doors drawers and bases. Next roll on a coat of bonding primer and let it dry completely. Use a roller to apply chalky finish paint to the cabinet doors.

Use a paint brush to chalk paint any spots the roller couldn t reach. Painting laminate cabinets changing out the doors and entirely replacing the cabinets are all possibilities. Painting laminate cabinets can be a cinch.