No turning back now! This is after the primer only. The real paint goes on tomorrow.
This weekend we are painting the cabinets. This is a much larger undertaking than the island we did last month. Instead of just the four doors we had to disassemble for the island, today we took down 28 doors!
Taking down and preparing the doors took a couple hours alone because we had to be sure to catalog them properly. Let’s talk about how it was done.
For each door we removed, we gave it a number. For the hinged doors, we indicated which direction the doors were installed. We covered the markings with masking tape so it wouldn’t get painted over.
We marked where each door goes somewhere on the cabinet boxes. Then we removed the hinges.
All the hinge parts went into zip-top bags.
Here are some doors ready to be washed and deglossed.
The next step is to thoroughly clean the surfaces.
I have to admit I haven’t been as good as I should be about keeping the cabinet doors clean. Once a year or so I’ll give wooden doors a once-over with either Murphy’s Oil Soap or some sort of orange oil. That usually does the trick but So the top-most edges of some of the less-used cabinet doors were VERY dirty, perhaps with 17 years worth of dirt and grime?
Each of the doors were washed in trisodium phosphate (TSP) and then wiped down with sander deglosser. There was so much dirt on those doors!
The doors were arranged in the garage to be painted with a sprayer.
Dave with the paint sprayer. It’s so much faster this way.
While Dave was working on the doors in the garage, I was busy priming the cabinet boxes and baseboards.
Before…
And after! This is after the primer only. The real paint goes on tomorrow.
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