Rehanging Cabinet Doors After Painting

Painting cabinets can be intimidating but with a little patience and planning ahead you can save hundreds of dollars by doing it yourself.

Rehanging cabinet doors after painting.

Remove all drawers and doors and don t forget to remove any hardware. After repainting my kitchen cabinets i had to re hang the doors. How long does it take for cabinet paint to dry and cure. Another blogger and i go head to head each week which basically keeps me in line and on task.

In this installment of dueling diy i show you a nifty trick for how i did it. When removing the doors it s common to drive the wood screws back into the styles of the cabinet so they don t get lost. Before installing any cabinet it s a good idea to remove the doors so they don t get damaged or interfere with installation. Then find an area that gives you enough room to work and enough space to let everything dry for extended periods of time.

If you ve decided that it s time to redo your kitchen cabinets it may help to remember the painter s maxim. I will say that it is extremely humid so i ve been trying to let the paint cure as it can take an entire week but on the plus side we know they won t stick if this is the most humid week of the year. A flat painting surface is the key to refinishing kitchen cabinets. Hanging the doors involves attaching the hinges to the door determining how the door fits on the cabinet and aligning the door evenly on the cabinet.

In case you missed it the concept is pretty simple. The time it takes for your cabinets to dry and cure can be effected by humidity. The secret to painting drip free and brush stroke free cabinet doors. Kitchen cabinet painting typically takes 1 weeks time to dry but can take up to a month or 30 days to completely cure and harden.

Well sometimes you need to take it of. I ll give you the step by step method to repainting cabinet doors but first i ll let you in on my little secret. It s wednesday which means it s time for another dueling diy update. How to redo kitchen cabinets after they have been painted with latex paint.

You can sand and paint or stain old doors.