Can You Paint Laminate Cabinet Doors

Unscrew your cabinet drawers this is the fun bit.

Can you paint laminate cabinet doors.

You ll want to be able to remember where everything goes when it comes time to put it all back together again so grab a packet of stickers or tabs and write numbers on each door so you know where to re fix them. You can mask metal on the hinges with painter s tape and paint the doors in place or if the hinges are visible and removable take the doors down from the cabinets and paint them separately on. You can lightly sand these down using a handheld sanding sponge or sandpaper. Ah so satisfying.

2 sand all the doors surfaces with either 80 or 120 grit sandpaper. You can also use 120 grit sandpaper as recommended by bidvine for removing glue from mdf cabinets. If you want to paint the inside of the cabinet doors flip them over and do that now once all the paint is dry inspect everything for raised drips unwanted brushstrokes or other imperfections in the surface of the chalk paint. Grab your screwdriver and get busy unscrewing all your doors drawer fronts and their handles.

Use the solvent to rub off whatever you can t scrape off. Have a laminate cabinet doors you want to update. After you ve removed the laminate there is bound to be some residual glue.