Can i paint ikea kitchen cabinets

Doors will be easier to paint without being attached. For the drawers, I just pulled them out to different levels to let them dry. I painted the cabinets with Valspar cabinet paint. This paint is a water-based enamel that comes in a semi-gloss finish.

This paint does have a weird smell, but nothing toxic. Just weird. I thought it smelled like stinkbugs, but my family said they only smelled paint. Paints with a higher sheen can be tricky to apply without streaks. Here are my tips for a cleaner finish. Paint needs at least 30 days to fully cure, even though it feels dry to the touch after a few hours. For best results, wait as long as possible before handling the drawer fronts or the paint might scratch.

I scratched a drawer front while re-installing the hardware. After 30 days, I plan on giving it a scratch test to see how it holds up. Emy is a vintage obsessed mama of 2 DIYer who loves sharing affordable solutions for common home problems.

Read more…. I also wiped the surface one last time with alcohol you can buy it at the dollar store as it removes ALL greasy spots, and I wanted to make sure my surface is clean, dirt free, smooth and ready to be primered. We had one glass door that we taped off using painters tape. We learned our lesson. So be sure you do! We used Kilz oil-based primer that dries in an hour.

After the primer is dry, start your painting process. As I mentioned earlier, we decided to spray paint to achieve the flattest and smoothest finished look. For spray painting the doors we used Husky Spray Gun Kit. It was fairly easy to use, but the trick to it was to clean the guns properly after we were don with the job. Our garage was full of cabinets and items that were removed from the kitchen due to tiling, so we transported ALL cabinet doors to our warehouse where we had a huge space to spray paint them.

Spraying the cabinet doors was fast. We had a large heater in the space as it was super cold outside so the paint dried fast. We left the heat on for the night, and next day we repeated the process for the other side of the doors.

Then we transported everything back to our house, and we installed our cabinets, doors, and hardware. Just unbelievable and we are utterly smitten with the final look.

Click HERE to see more! Hi, I am from Latvia, and my dream kitchen almost go true. I found your kitchen in Pinterest, and I felt in love with it. Your cabinets are beautiful! I just wanted to clarify, did you use oil paint over the oil primer? May I ask if you used a latex or epoxy primer paint?

I want to repaint it.. I have the same cabinets and would like to do this. How hard was it to remove the cabinets? Also how long did the project take? Hi there, thank you for sharing such an awesome project! Do you knoe if I will be able to paint most of the Ikea cabinet door styles like this?

For example the Grimslov doors. Thank you very much! How did you paint the parts of your cabinets that you could not remove, like the trim along the top and bottom as well as the sides the outer facing sides?

Dana, we removed those pieces as well. The sides of the cabinets were a screwed on IKEA panels and they were removable. And the top and bottom also were removable.

Were the cabinets from IKEA? Am asking because am getting ready to paint my IKEA Sektion cabinets and i want to make sure it can be done before i start the process.

I have the exact same cabinets and would love to paint them. Did you have to take all of the panels off too? We only took the doors off. I did not bother painting the frame as it is not visible at all — only! We spray painted everything so they had to come off. The paint holds perfectly and I am still head to toe in love with my kitchen. Good luck. Let me know if you have any other questions!

For our DIY kitchen remodel see before and after here , we knew we wanted mostly white kitchen cabinets with an accent color kitchen island. We want out painted kitchen island to be very durable in a super high traffic area.

After lots of research and testing, I am happy to report that our painted kitchen island came out super durable! Whether you are considering painting existing or new kitchen cabinets, there are lots of tips for you in this tutorial. In the final step, you will find the 1 mistake to avoid! Full disclosure here. Disclosure: when I told Wagner Spray Tech about our kitchen remodel, they generously offered to sponsor us on this kitchen island project! We are really thrilled to be collaborating with one of our favorite tool companies!

If you are painting existing kitchen cabinets, first label and remove kitchen cabinet doors, drawers, and hardware. Here is a good example of how to label each door: write and tape the corresponding numbers on the back of each door and the inside of the cabinet. This way you will know exactly which door goes where. Clean off any grease and dirt with a good dish soap, wipe off all soap residues with a rag or sponge, and let dry.

In our case we are painting and building a kitchen island using a new IKEA kitchen cabinet, and we will be painting all the exposed side and back panels as well. Need some color inspirations? Here are 25 favorite kitchen cabinet paint colors you can choose from! You can use water based or oil based paints. We chose water based latex paint because it is the easiest to work with, and is very durable.

You also want the kitchen cabinet surface to be easy to clean. Satin, semi-gloss or high gloss finishes are all good choices. You can paint kitchen cabinets without sanding if your cabinets are raw wood, or already painted with a matte surface. Otherwise a super quick sanding will help create much better adhesion. I like to use a circular motion when sanding. Check out the video above for more details.

It only takes a minute to sand each door or drawer. This is an important step, especially for laminate cabinets, as it creates tiny little scratches for much better adhesion when the primer goes on. If you tilt the cabinet door or drawer towards the light, you should see a scratched dull surface instead of the glossy surface before. This means you have sanded enough. See photo above. Check out our paint primer comparison test on the pros and cons of using water based, oil based and shellac based primers on laminate cabinets.

The reason we chose shellac based primer is because we are painting a high gloss finish, and the kitchen island will be in such a high traffic area.

Shellac primer is harder to work with, but the result is the most durable in our scratch test. If your kitchen cabinets have a matte finish, or are less likely to be bumped into, you can totally use a water based primer , which is the easiest to work with, and has held up great on our painted fridge!

Tutorial here. Do NOT use shellac primer in a paint sprayer! It is VERY difficult to clean. You can use water or oil based paint primer in a sprayer with beautiful results!