Repaint Laminate Cabinets

Special cabinet paints are available that provide a smooth finish but any high quality paint should work.

Repaint laminate cabinets. Watch as lou manfredini ace s home expert show you how your can paint laminate cabinets for an affordable. If you are painting a veneer wood piece of furniture i recommend the method outlined in my original cabinet painting post. Painting laminate cabinets changing out the doors and entirely replacing the cabinets are all possibilities. Have a laminate cabinet doors you want to update.

Wood cabinets are ideal for painting but any surface that can be scuffed with sandpaper can be painted. Use a paint brush along areas that are close to the wall and on the edges. Prime your cabinets for painting we re using dulux renovator range plastic and laminate primer it comes in a tin. Once this is done pour everything into a paint tray and you re ready for rolling.

By the way veneer is slightly different from laminate. Next use a laminate primer on your cabinets. Cabinet coat is designed to adhere to plastic metal and urethane surfaces without a primer but laminate and melamine surfaces should be sanded before painting. Veneered wood is a similar concept but instead of a plastic layer on top of plywood it has a very thin layer of actual wood called a veneer.

Once this is done paint larger surfaces with a roller brush. To paint laminate cabinets start by removing the hardware cleaning the surface and sanding the cabinets with medium grit sandpaper until the surface feels smooth. Short of committing to a more costly replacement of outdated kitchen storage repainting laminate cabinets is an affordable way to turn the eyesore into eye catching modern cabinetry. Stock cabinets are least expensive.

Choose a high quality paint. Next roll on a coat of bonding primer and let it dry completely. Your choice depends on how much you want to spend. It s important to leave all cabinets open during painting and drying to ensure that they don t get stuck closed as the paint dries.

The laminate must be in good condition for best results. Replacing your cabinets is the most expensive option cabinetry constitutes nearly three quarters of the price of a new kitchen. Add one entire tube of the laminate primer which comes with it in the blue lid and gave it a good stir for around two minutes.