Painting your kitchen cabinets is a quick, inexpensive way to give your cabinets a face lift.  You can go lighter or darker, or add bold colors to liven it up.  Which ever way you decide will provide an instant boost to your kitchen.  Not all kitchen cabinets can be painted though.

Wood veneers, solid wood and metal surfaces take paint well.  You cannot paint plastic laminate or surfaces covered with thinner melamine plastics because paint does not bond well to these surfaces.  Painting your cabinets is a cinch with tools like paint brushes, rollers or spray guns.  Foam rollers in particular will cover large surface areas quickly.  As for paint, satin enamel is probably your best choice as it covers well and easy to clean.

Know how to paint your kitchen cabinets, by removing the doors and draws to make for much easier painting.  Remove all the hinges, knobs and pulls from the doors and empty out all the draws.  Slide the draws out and set everything in a well ventilated area, perhaps outside for painting.  Number all the doors, draws and hardware so you’ll know what belongs to which door, draw etc..  Clean the surfaces with trisodium phosphate, rinse with water and allow to dry.

Start out by painting the inside of the doors.  While those are drying, paint the front of the drawers.  Then paint the front of the doors.  Depending on what kind of paint you’re using, you may need additional coats.  If you do, allow the first coat to dry overnight.  Next day, sand it down with 200 grit wet/dry sandpaper and apply the second coat.

Install the draws and reattach the doors to  the hinges once the paint is dry.  Install your knobs and pulls and the job is done.  As you can see, painting your kitchen cabinets is one of the fastest ways to give your kitchen an upgrade.  It would only cost you a little bit of your time.