How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets with a DIY Hack to Save Time and Money!

so how do you paint kitchen cabinets well of all the questions I get that's probably the one I get the most so today I'm sharing all the deets on how I do kitchen cabinets the first dance party nailed it hey gang it's a midlife girl I'm over here narrating and navigating my slice of midlife with hearts humor and shenanigans if you are new here I hope you'll consider subscribing by clicking that red rectangle a square down and then digging in a little bell right next to it it's great you can't miss it then you'll be part of the notification gang and you'll get notified every time I upload a new shenanigans speaking of shenanigans today I'm doing a long-awaited tutorial on how I paint kitchen cabinets this is the 8th kitchen worth of cabinets that I had done and I decided it was high time I filmed a tutorial and got it on here I'm going to share all the process with you including a DIY hack that's gonna save you time and money and I will have that at the end so with that let's get started [Music] okay guys I'm gonna go over all the different supplies that I use when I paint kitchen cabinets and if there's a link for something that I can find a link for I will put it down in the description below so the first thing you want to do is wash your cabinets really really well I use a liquid D Glosser degreaser so you want to look for the words degreaser for sure and D Glosser is even more helpful so this is what I got it's super potent stuff so make sure you use some gloves when you use it and I just use old cotton rags like from Ikea to wipe down all your cabinets sometimes you have to even after you've wiped them down if there's some really like gnarly oatmeal that's been dried on your cabinet door for you know 25 years you might want to you know have like a little specialist scrubber to kind of get that off and then sand it smooth but generally speaking that will take care of most of it and then you're gonna start taping I like frog tape I like this size which is 1.41 inches I mean I don't know why anyway it's just wide enough so that it's like I'm not gonna be slop and paint on two surfaces I don't want it to be and so this kitchen is rather large the one I just in the middle of doing and I used almost a roll and a half of this tape to get to every single around every single edge so well worth the money I love frog tape nice sharp edges you're gonna need a paint tray a narrow paint tray to fit your narrow roller I use velour rollers always use velour rollers for cabinets because it just leaves a super smooth finish when you're done and I always buy a couple packs of these because I like to just throw them away when I'm done because I don't like to watch them I love ease in this narrow angled brush it's perfect for you know like this area here and here you're gonna be doing a lot of like tiny spaces and so this little I think that's a one and a half inch I think that's one and a half inches you want this size it'll be linked below alright and then of course my favorite paint for cabinetry and for furniture when you want to do a really smooth finish that's really hard and durable like tabletops cabinets tops I used the advance by Benjamin Moore I use a satin finish the stuff you guys is so so good for this kind of thing I've used it on four kitchens now and it's amazing if the durability is amazing so it has a really long open time which means it takes a long time to dry you need to wait a good 24 hours between each coat just to let that first coat dry but that's to your advantage because as you're painting and if you get across all your cabinets and then you go back and realize oh there's a big drip over there you can go and smooth that out if you're using latex paint that would get kind of draggy and like sticky already but not this paint it stays open for a really long time it's also self leveling which means when you roll it on after a little while as it starts to dry it smoothes itself out which is brilliant so it's actually a waterborne alkaloid paint so it behaves a lot like an oil-based paint but it doesn't smell it cleans up with soap and water it's like the perfect paint for this kind of job so I just don't let's go do not collect $200 just get that paint if you're gonna paint kitchen cabinets the other thing I get sometimes is the advance primer to go underneath it I only ever use this primer when I can get it tinted to pretty much the same color that I'm gonna do with the kitchen cabinets in this case we went with a rather dark color and so they could not get this tinted dark enough so I used my own DIY chalk primer and that hack will be at the end of this video I'll show you how I do it and the recipe that I use for it this primer is amazing if you can get it tinted to the color that you're painting your cabinets but if you're doing anything other than just a mid-tone you might be better with my DIY hacks so the only other things you're gonna need are like a screwdriver to remove the hardware from your doors and your drawers a drop cloth and a step stool just stuff that most people have around their house anyway but I thought I'd mention it and with that I'll get into the tutorial [Music] okay so there is a method to my madness and there's a progression that I do that I found just kind of keeps my workflow better so I'm going to share that with you and I always start top to bottom mostly because I just learned if I do the bottom and then I climb up on a ladder and do the top inevitably I'm gonna bump the Wetpaint down here so top to bottom and I'm not gonna start on the video at the top because I want to show you how I do drawers and there's no drawers up there so we're just gonna start down here so what I want to do is I want to paint all of the box the box of the cabinet the actual base of the cabinet first so I'm gonna be moving the the doors around I'm gonna be moving the drawers around so that I can get along the all the edges you'll notice I think on this one I put tape on each drawer about this this far out so that I can kind of put it right about there so that when I take my brush and I'm painting along here I'm not getting paint along the side of my drawer it's just a little thing I don't like to do you don't have to you can slop paint right on there if you want nobody's ever gonna see it but once I've got the base cabinet done the actual base of the cabinet done then I do my drawers and so here's how I do my drawers I pull them out and I'm gonna do the inside part of it all along there besides I'm always watching for like glops or like an edge of thick paint that might run or drip later so I smooth it out and then I go back and forth with my brush and as soon as I get all the paint or primer whatever I'm using on there then I go back in with my roller and I roll it over the surfaces because that's what really smoothes it out and then it's time to do the doors now when I do the doors I only do the inside to start with so after I open them up the first thing I do is do the horizontal surfaces I fill in any kind of indentation like these cabinets actually have this like cutout square thing not all of them do then go in and do the vertical some people take their doors off to paint and I have done that many times to these type of hinges are really easy to paint around and so if I can get away with leaving the doors on I usually do it saves a lot of time I can paint both the front and the back and not worry about the paint smudging or whatever as I'm turning it back and forth I just try to keep them on if I can doesn't always work I did not tape these because I have a pretty steady hand so but you may need to tape them so after I finished the backs I leave them be and I go and work my way around the kitchen and then by the time I get back around here the primers usually dry or the paint is usually dry enough that I can then gently move it this way and do the same on the front so on these cabinets the first thing I would do is go around this edge this cutout edge make sure I'm filling in paint evenly into these corners I do the horizontal surfaces and then I go in and do the vertical surfaces fill it all in and then I take my roller and go over it all with the roller to smooth it out and give it that really nice smooth surface so that is the method that I use these are dry by the way so the last surface I ever do is the Front's of the cabinets and that's what's gonna show the most so that's where I take my time at the very end and make sure all the fronts are looking really fabulous okay guys I'm going to share with you as I promised my favorite DIY hack if they can't get your primer tinted to a color that's pretty close to what your final cabinet color is gonna be this is what you want to do so let me share with you what you're gonna need so you're gonna first of all need calcium carbonate links will be below this lasts me a good good long while you need a little bit of warm water and then I use a sample paint you can use any paint as long as it's like flat or matte paint works best I have done it with regular satin paint I just like the results better as a primer when I'm using a flat paint and one of the things I love to do is go to Sherwin Williams and get their colors to go quart size because they're like six or six to eight dollars depending on if the on sale and they can color match it for you if you're not actually using a sherwin-williams color we actually are so other than that you just need something to mix it in I usually mix my calcium carbonate a little mixture with the warm water in one of these and then pour it in and then pour my paint in and mix it up and so the recipe I'm going to try to put on the screen three level tablespoons of the calcium carbonate - 2 tablespoons of warm water and you're gonna whisk that together just make sure it's really smooth and mixed in and then you add that to 1 cup of paint and that's usually enough for a piece of furniture but when you're doing a whole kitchen you're probably going to want to do a full one of these which is like three and a half cups so that is what I have done this first coat on the cabinets is my DIY chalk primer and I'm getting ready to start actually in with the advanced paint [Music] well guys the project is done but before I show you the final reveal I wanted to cover a few last details that I feel like are important when you're doing a painting cabinets tutorial so the first is of course the paint color we use Sherwin Williams Riverway which is a lovely blue with some heavy green undertone to it the other thing I wanted to mention was how much paint I actually used so it took about just less than a half a gallon almost two of those quarts of the samples Sherwin Williams paint that I made into the DIY chalk primer almost a half a gallon for that and about a half a gallon of the advance the Benjamin Moore advance paint that we did have color matched into that Riverway color so after I did one coat of primer over everything I did another full coat of paint and then I did a second coat of paint only on the Front's of the cabinets and the Front's of the drawers because I said in the tutorial that's what you see the most and that's where I wanted to lay on the most paint for the most durability so the drawer fronts and the cabinet fronts got two coats of paint over the primer but the boxes and the backs of the cabinet doors just had the one coat of paint with the primer below it and then as far as how long this project took me like I said I've done about eight or nine kitchens in my lifetime so I've gotten pretty good at doing this I set aside a whole week for this project now I was not over here every single day but there were a good five days that I was here for about six or seven hours of course I was also setting up and doing video recording and doing all the YouTube things and which took a little bit of time too but for the most part I would plan a whole week like I said once you put that first coat of actual advance paint on you need to wait a whole 24 hours before you go in with a second coat or even a third coat about third coats I generally don't need to do them when I'm using advance paint and I've had my DIY chalk primer made to match the color of paint I'm using but if you are going over very dark cabinets with white paint or light gray or light blue or if your cabinets are already very light color and you're going with a really dark color it may actually take you three coats of paint that last coat of paint is pretty pretty easy so don't let that scare you I would still give yourself a good week or so for this project and now I'm ready to show you some afters [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: A Cottage Girl

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Keywords: diy, painting tutorial, painting kitchen cabinets, how to easily paint kitchen cabinets, diy painting hacks, kitchen transformation diy, kitchen before and after

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 08 2019