I found a great “recipe” to paint my bathroom cabinets. The current cabinets were scuffed, worn, dated and ugly.
They are now sleek, pretty and contemporary.
1. Clean the cabinets with a deglosser/sander – Klean Strip is a great brand, you can only find it at Home Depot.
2. Let the deglosser dry, only takes about an hour.
3. Apply a latex primer – or all purpose primer with a good quality brush – the site recommended 2 1/2″ but if you have any kind of raised decorative face to your doors you may want to use a 2″ – Purdy are awesome brushes and worth every cent!!
Have then tint the primer dark – very necessary.
4. Let the primer dry overnight. Then apply your OIL based paint with a Purdy 2″ brush that is made for all paints or oil based paint.
Paint with the grain of the wood.
You should only need a quart of paint. I painted this vanity and used less than 1/4 of the can!
Soak your brushes in a can of brush cleaner, since it’s oil based this is the only way you’re getting them clean. Rinse with cold water.
Good luck
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What color paint did you use? It looks great!!
It’s just black – it’s an oil based paint and those come in black or white – you can get the paint colored but then you have to buy a gallon and you will only use a fraction of that gallon. In fact I used very little of the quart of black paint – I have enough left over to do 20 more bathrooms!
Thank you, the oil based paint makes them look like a professional job – and helps with wear and tear.