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5 DIY Painting Tips That Every DIY Painter Needs to Know
DIY Painting Tip 1. Buy top quality paint when you can. It will apply better, last longer and be so much easier to clean. Instead of painting every 5 years, you will only be painting every 10 years.
DIY Painting Tip 2. Preparation… Preparation is the key to everything. This is where you want to pay the most attention and where you should be spending the most time with your project. Use quality fillers and give them plenty of time to dry and then spend the time for proper sanding. It will all pay off in the final look, especially where you are using gloss paints.
DIY Painting Tip 3. Brushes and Rollers! Don’t skimp on the brushes and rollers that you are going to use. Cheap brushes and cheap roller covers, will you give you a cheap looking finish. Buy the best you can afford, and if you wash them properly, they will last you for many DIY painting jobs.
DIY Painting Tip 4. Mold. If you have mold problems, which will normally happen in wet areas such as bathrooms and laundries. You will need to treat the walls of the room with a mold killer, or household bleach will do the trick too. Wipe down all the walls, not just the areas where there are visible mold spores. Once you are finished make sure you wipe everything down with clean water.
DIY Painting Tip 5. Not sure if you have water based or oil based paint on your walls? There is a simple test to find out. Put some methylated spirits on a cloth and rub it over the paint. If you get color on the cloth, then the paint is water based, if you don’t get any color then it is an oil based paint.
I hope you have found these DIY painting tips useful.
DIY Painting Kitchen Cabinets
DIY cabinet doors painting is the easiest part of painting the kitchen cabinets. Most people want to have white cabinets. The nice thing about painting cabinet doors is that you can remove the doors completely from the cabinets and also you can remove all the hardware from the cabinet doors. Now you can do any repairs you want to on the doors such as dents or scratches or nicks.
And the beauty of it is you can do this on a bench or a pair of sawhorses, where you can use a palm sander or some kind of sanding machine to sand the door in a flat position. This is a lot easier position than sanding something in a vertical position.
The doors are the most important part of your painted cabinets. They are the parts that really attract your eyeballs to them. Especially if you have white cabinets with some very nice accessories such as knobs and hinges.
Knobs and hinges should be considered very carefully because they are the items which are going to make or break your doors.
When in doubt the safest color to paint your kitchen cabinets is to have white cabinets, white cabinets are very common and acceptable in most kitchen designs.
Painting cabinets can be done on both types of cabinets which are laminated with plastic or laminate or solid wood doors. If the solid wood doors are in good condition and the laminated doors are also in good condition the painting procedure is virtually the same.
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