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Your Guide to Painting Kitchen Cabinetry

Your Guide to Painting Kitchen Cabinetry
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If you’ve been a homeowner for a very long time now, or if you’ve moved into an old house which has seldom seen renovations, then you should really be craving by now change up the looks of it all. One of the best places to start such a project would be the kitchen, where the cabinets are pretty remodel-friendly and have a major impact on the whole stylistic flow of the room. The good thing is, with most old houses, the cabinets happen to be made out of pretty solid construction, and while they might look outdated, they’re still well held up steadily in place.

The best way to go about this remodeling without spending tremendous amounts of time, money, or effort, would be to simply repaint the cabinets. Paint comes very cheap nowadays, as well as in all shades and colors, taking care of the price and the variety problems right away. While it is true that you can engage the services of a professional painter to do the job for you, it’s not that much of a hard task to do it all yourself and spare some precious money which could be used on so many other things.

Before you repaint your cabinets, you must first decide whether you want to do the inside, the outside, or both, and then you need to get the right amount of primer (this will help your paint disperse more equally across your cabinetry’s surface). The most efficient way to do this project would be to take out all that the inside hardware and details, and then proceed to painting the individually, and once the whole thing has dried you can proceed to reassembling it.

Many people report to getting the best results when using oil-based primers and acrylic enamels, which lead to a very resilient finish which doesn’t come off without a fight.