7 Helpful Tips For Painting Kitchen Cabinets in Franklin, MA

When you have kitchen cabinets that need a bit of an update, one might think that the only options that are available include replacing parts or all of the physical cabinet, but this is not the case.

Indeed, just by painting your kitchen cabinets, you can vastly improve their look and even make them look like entirely new kitchen cabinets — but doing it right is fundamental to the process.

Here are seven helpful tips for painting kitchen cabinets in Franklin, MA.

1. More Than One Color Is Okay

You may come across some opinions that when you are painting your kitchen cabinets, you have to stick to one color and one color only, but this is not so.

Indeed, you can go with more than one color — two or even three if you are able to properly lay out the cabinets, choosing colors that complement one another.

The nice thing about using multiple colors for painting your kitchen cabinets is that the way that the colors work together really enhances the look of the cabinets.

2. Clean Before You Start

There are a number of steps that relate to a preparation that you need to take before you begin the actual painting of your kitchen cabinets, and one of them is cleaning.

This is not just to say that your kitchen cabinets need to be cleaned, though of course they certainly should be — but that the area around your cabinets needs cleaning as well.

The reason that this is important is that if you have, for example, dust on the ground during the painting process, you will find that dust on the paintwork and that is the last thing you want.

3. Don’t Go Cheap On Brushes

When it comes to painting your kitchen cabinets, it is of course understandable that you are going to look to save money in any way you can, and that is fine.

The brushes that you are going to use to paint them, however, should be of a better than cheap quality, however — you will notice that if you use the cheaper paintbrushes for painting cabinets, the bristles will come off — and therefore work their way into the paint which then has to be removed.

Better to get better quality brushes and not have to face these kinds of issues during your painting.

4. Go After That Grease

Depending on how long you have been using the kitchen (or if you have just bought the place from someone else, how long it was that they had been using it) there may be quite a lot of grease on your cabinets.

That grease is not going to look good if you try to paint over it — so you have to really get into the cleaning with some degreasing agents and in some cases a good soap that can remove the grease from the surface of the cabinets.

Better to be more thorough in your grease removal.

5. Allow Time For Your Cabinets To Dry

When you’re painting your kitchen cabinets, one thing you will need to do is to make sure that you give them time to dry.

If you don’t let your first coat of paint to dry, for example, and just try to paint over it, you will see some of the first coat of paint coming up onto the paintbrush.

6. Remove Doors And Drawers

It’s important that you remove the doors and drawers of your kitchen cabinets before you start the painting process.

This is key because the doors will be easier to paint if they are off of the cabinets (as the drawers will be) and they will get in the way of the painting of the rest of the cabinets.

7. Properly Calculate The Duration Of The Project

Lastly, you need to better estimate the time that it is going to take you to paint your cabinets so that you can plan it well.

This is quite important as some people go into the project thinking the whole thing will take only a few hours when it can take substantially more depending on how long the paint takes to dry as well as how long the various steps of preparation taken.

Better to overestimate how long it will take and prepare for that than to underestimate and have to pause the project midway because you run out of free time.

Power Painting Plus specializes in Interior Painting, Exterior Painting, and Cabinet Refinishing. We look forward to helping you with your home renovations in Franklin, MA. Contact us by calling (508) 784-1800.

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