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Painting cabinet doors - EightFingers - 07-22-2018 I want to paint some cabinet doors to update the look in a bathroom. The doors are oak with what I think is a poly urethane finish coat. My plan is to lightly sand then apply a coat or two of enamel. I don’t think I’ll need primer. I looked through the treads here but didn’t find anything about repainting cabinet doors. Advice appreciated! RE: Painting cabinet doors - cams2705 - 07-22-2018 (07-22-2018, 05:19 PM)EightFingers Wrote: I want to paint some cabinet doors to update the look in a bathroom. The doors are oak with what I think is a poly urethane finish coat. My plan is to lightly sand then apply a coat or two of enamel. I don’t think I’ll need primer.After lightly sanding and wiping everything down, I would apply a thinned down coat of a wood filler (try timber mate) to fill the pores of oak. Then lightly sand again after it drys and wipe down I was happy using Sherwin-Williams Premium Wall and Wood Primer. I used two coats on bare wood, but you may get by with just one coat. For the top coat, I used their ProClassic alkyd-acrylic. Layed down nicely with a brush and backrolled with the 4" foam rollers made for cabinets. After two coats, it looked like it was sprayed. RE: Painting cabinet doors - fredhargis - 07-23-2018 What you may run into is that some form of furniture polish with silicone was used on those doors in the past. That might lead to a fisheye problem with the new paint. I would clean them as thoroughly as possible with TSP (the real stuff), and rinse completely. Then consider priming them first with a shellac based primer, Zinnser BIN. The shellac will seal the later coats from any remaining silicone. After that, I would follow the advice offered above, although you may not need another coat of a different primer, the BIN smooths out very well. RE: Painting cabinet doors - Cooler - 07-23-2018 I would brush on a coat of Sealcoat shellac. It is already diluted and ready to use. Shellac adheres well to almost all substrates and most finishes adhere well to shellac. I had good luck applying General Finishes pseudo "milk paints". They brush on with a foam brush and dry without any blemishes at all. I then top coat with acrylic clear. When I used black I had to use gloss clear, as the matte finish made the black look gray. I tried Sherwin Williams best acrylic paint as a comparison. Their color matching system matched the color perfectly. But no matter how I tried I never could apply as even a finish with the S-W paints. The GF milk paints, in contrast, looked like a high quality sprayed finish. Perfect. No runs, not pits, excellent. The clear coat over base color will give a much more durable finish than enamel in my experience. Note: This is not real milk paint. It simply looks like it. It is an interior or exterior finish. There is a limited array of colors. Matte finish for all colors. They claim that it does not require a top coat. I found that it scarred (black finish) and would pick up shiny spots if I did not top coat. https://generalfinishes.com/wood-finishes-retail/water-based-milk-paints-chalk-style-paints-glazes-pearl-effects/milk-paint RE: Painting cabinet doors - bhh - 07-23-2018 I second Fred's suggestions. What you want is a clean and dull surface. The shellac makes a good barrier coat and will help adhesion. I like to take the doors and drawer fronts off and do them horizontally. It helps the flow-out and makes defects easier to see. It also lets you have better access to the face frame. Do not use a cheap latex paint. They are prone to "blocking" -- gluing themselves together. The last cabinets I did were for my own home. The DPO (dreaded prior owner) did a terrible job prepping and painting (and used a cheap paint apparently). From the week we moved in, it started to peel around the pulls and never really got anything more that soft and sticky. And I seriously doubt that it's polyurethane unless another homeowner or clueless contractor did it. Factory finishes are almost always some kind of lacquer, with a rare chance at a conversion finish. Conversion finishes are tough, but not much sticks to them, even itself after a small window of curing. And they're a bear to strip. Here's a quick video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JNTb4uyGG0 (Now mind you, he started to strip a nightstand and halfway though, he hired me to finish the job and refinish the matching bed) RE: Painting cabinet doors - EightFingers - 07-24-2018 Thanks for the advice - some things I didn’t think of. If things don’t work out, my plan B is to build new doors. I know that’s what I’m going to do in the kitchen. I just figured white cabinets would be a better look in the bathrooms than the stained oak. |