What Is The Best Way To Paint Stained Cabinets

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What is the best way to paint stained cabinets. This is usually maple or birch. Always wear the appropriate safety gear and open the windows for ventilation. Because maple and birch show much less grain than oak or walnut cabinets they are perfect for painting.

Most cabinet finishes are too smooth or glossy to reprime and repaint so using a medium sandpaper we like 100- to 150-grit sand down your surfaces a littlenot enough to sand away the current finish entirely but enough to give the primer a little more grit to stick to. If you want to paint your cabinets white one of the best paints you can use is Valspar Pro Contractor Coat an alkyd enamel or oil-based paint. Then you can use a brush to apply a primer working your brush using long strokes in the direction of the grain.

Hand sand the hard parts and dont overlook the cabinet door edges. Better for indoor use because it smells like oranges but still wear a painting mask and puddy knife. Simply clean the surfaces prime if needed well talk about that in a minute and paint.

Paint will adhere to stain but it wont adhere to the shiny coat of varnish or lacquer that is often applied over the stain. Insl-X Cabinet Coat is an acrylic water-based enamel. Most cabinet lines have a base wood species.

Like I mentioned above a lot of research and testing went into that decision. The short answer is that latex paint is best for cabinets. I applied a thicker coat of the paint stripper with a cheap paint brush and let it sit for 30 minutes.

Now back to stripping the paint from the cabinets. Use latex primer and paint when painting over a water-based wood stain. We actually prefer a third type of paint for cabinets the hybrid enamel.