Painting your kitchen cabinets is the single most transformative thing you can do to your kitchen without a gut renovation.
Can you paint your old kitchen cabinets.
You re finally ready to paint.
If your hardware simply needs cleaning see refinishing and cleaning kitchen cabinets for instructions.
Even the highest quality paint job can t revive cheap cabinets that have grown frail with age.
Then fill holes with the wood filler.
If you re using roughly the same shade as the existing color two coats ought to do the job.
If you want to replace your hardware instead see our cabinet hardware buying guide for options.
With an inexpensive paint sprayer and a few gallons of paint you can transform your kitchen in a weekend.
Instead of replacing your old kitchen cabinets make them new by repainting them.
Paint the cabinet boxes.
If you plan on using new hardware that is a different size than the original you will have to fill the old hardware holes before painting.
If you re using your old hardware you can clean it or refinish it with spray paint for a new look.
Apply tape to the back surface of the cabinet doors underneath those holes.
If your cabinets have any holes or gouges you will need to fill them.
If these are the issues you re dealing with you d actually be better off replacing your kitchen cabinets.
You might even get away with one.
Clean the old paint cabinets thoroughly prime with a stain blocking primer and then paint with a high quality.
Thin veneers peel or delaminate particleboard cabinet bottoms or shelves sag or break and hanging rails come loose.