Re Hanging Cabinet Doors After Painting

Re hanging kitchen cabinet doors after painting installing new cabinet hinges.

Re hanging cabinet doors after painting.

If you ve decided that it s time to redo your kitchen cabinets it may help to remember the painter s maxim. For a whole row of cabinets you can level each one with the first door you hang. If you paint kitchen cabinets with the doors still hanging on the cabinet boxes frames you re liable to miss edges and corners or get paint on the door pulls. The painter used a sherwin williams paint made for doing cabinets and said it would be okay to rehang them so soon but i m a bit nervous that they may stick.

You can sand and paint or stain old doors. This helped and hurt me at the same time. Keep the old ones at least for making sure you re buying the new ones that most closely match. Allow the paint to dry then re install all hardware and hang your brand new in appearance anyway kitchen cabinets.

Hole in the bottom of the door and two at the top then turn 4 in. How to paint kitchen cabinets without sanding or priming give your old cabinets a makeover and change the entire look of your kitchen with just a fresh coat of paint. We re pretty handy around the house although from this message you wouldn t guess it lol hopefully these first time door hanging mistakes will help someone else. Lag screws 1 1 2 in.

If you re really handy and have a garage use wire or hangers to hang all the cabinet doors to make painting each side much more manageable. It s much easier to paint cabinet doors if you have a worktable but 2x4 boards propped on buckets or boxes can work as well. And you can still paint both sides in a day if you rest the door on lag screws. 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.

The big task though was installing new cabinet hinges on all of the finished lower doors. I had my cabinet doors and drawers painted on friday the painter is to paint the boxes on tuesday and wants to hang the doors back on thursday. For a uniform paint finish. How to redo kitchen cabinets after they have been painted with latex paint.