Painting Raw Wood Cabinets

Choose a high quality paint.

Painting raw wood cabinets. Purchase enough primer for two coats to go over finished cabinets or one coat if your cabinets are raw wood or matte painted. But your good intentions can turn into a nightmare if you choose the wrong paint. I want a solid color but i still want to have the grain of the wood show through. Maybe the inside of a cupboard or the outside of a panel for a shaker style cabinet door.

Primer helps fill in this grain to provide a smoother surface for the paint. Easthaven shaker assembled 27 7 in. Mask off the interiors with painters tape for a clean finish and sand only the front surfaces and visible edges of the cabinet face. After sanding getting rid of dust and priming the cabinets it s a good idea to check everything with a bright light to spot and fill any remaining holes or dents.

Sound painting solutions underscores the importance of priming unfinished wood. The first paint prep step after cleaning grease from cabinets is usually filling unwanted holes dents and dings with spackling or wood filler. Even when you properly sand cabinets the wood still has a textured grain. Depending on your kitchen cabinets you might need to.

You need to have unfinished wood on the back for the wood glue to adhere to when attaching them or the face frames will not be secure. If your repainting project is just a facelift for the cabinets you don t need to sand and paint the inside of the cabinets. Use a wood sanding block to prevent rounding over the wood edges image 2. For many pieces of furniture i build i like to have a bit of color.

Laminate cabinets require a special bonding primer. Primer also helps seal the unfinished cabinet surface so the paint doesn t soak into the wood. Frameless lazy susan corner base cabinet in unfinished beech view the easthaven unfinished collection 199 00. Whether you are painting raw wood an old piece of furniture or even cabinets it s important to find paint that comes in a variety of colors is easy to apply and has long durability.

Special cabinet paints are available that provide a smooth finish but any high quality paint should work. Wood cabinets are ideal for painting but any surface that can be scuffed with sandpaper can be painted. If you have unfinished cabinet boxes. After all it s not like you re painting a wall.

The laminate must be in good condition for best results. Lightly sand the doors on all sides and faces image 1.