In making over your dining room, you must look over all of the aspects of the room that could be improved, and this includes your dining room cabinets, a key part of the room that helps keep the room organized and tidy.
However, you don’t have to necessarily replace your dining room cabinets if they’re starting to look worn, though in some circumstances it’s a good idea to replace them when necessary.
Indeed, you can often make your cabinets look a lot better by painting them (perhaps a new color), and it’s useful to have some knowledge on the ways that you can best do this before beginning such a painting project.
Let’s have a look at some dining room cabinet painting tips to know in 2022.
1. Using Interior Paint
One thing that’s going to be important when you’re painting your dining room cabinets is that you will need to make use of interior paint.
Of course, if you’re at all familiar with interior painting this should be readily obvious but for some the notion of painting just means going to a paint store, getting whatever is on sale, and then making use of it to paint whatever it is that needs to be painted.
The importance of making use of interior paint cannot be overstated — there are many good things for which exterior paint is meant, but painting dining room cabinets is not one of them.
2. Tape Off Inserts
When you’re painting the dining room cabinets and you get to the part of the doors with their sometimes complicated inserts, you may come to realize that the process of cleaning inserts (should paint get on them) is much more time consuming than protecting said inserts before you paint.
In some cases, this involves making use of some tape and perhaps even a sheet of protective paper such that any paint that you apply to the cabinets does not get onto the inserts.
3. Primer Before Paint
You should be aware that in preparing to get your dining room cabinets best painted, you will want to have surfaces that are as smooth as possible and applying a coat of primer is one of the ways that you will be able to accomplish this.
The other good thing about making use of primer before you apply that first coat of paint is that by applying primer, you will get the paint to adhere to the cabinet surfaces much better than if you were to not apply the primer first.
Though up front you will see a bit of an increased cost in getting the primer, your dining room cabinets will ultimately cost you less to paint because of how much longer the paint work will ultimately last.
4. Correct Damage Before You Start
Along the life of a typical dining room cabinet, there are the occasional bump and accident that may cause a little damage to the cabinets — and it may even be that you won’t notice this damage except if you happen to be looking at the cabinets.
However, it’s quite important that when you set out on a painting project involving your cabinets that you make sure that you correct these problems well before you start painting, as your cabinet surfaces should all be prepared and even before then.
There are a number of ways that you will be able to correct damage to the dining room cabinets, and what sets apart the different ways of doing this really depends on the kind of material that makes up your cabinets.
The process for fixing wooden cabinets, for example, wouldn’t necessarily be the same as that for fixing laminate cabinets.
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