How To Paint Cabinets With A Paint Sprayer ?

How to paint cabinets with a paint sprayer? You once failed painting your cabinets with a brush since using this tool did not sparkle the look of your kitchen as expected. Or if you tend to replace your old cabinets with new ones, rethink another less costly alternative.

What about repainting your place with a paint sprayer? Though paint sprayers may be expensive, we guarantee that the transformation will surprise you pretty much. You can also use the sprayer for the next refreshment of the cabinets. What a deal!

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How To Spray Stain Kitchen Cabinets? – A Step-By-Step Process

Step 1: Remove Hardware and Doors

First and foremost, you must withdraw cabinet doors and drawers from the overlay cabinets and all the latches, knobs, and other hardware objects. Remember to put the hardware in the plastic bags to avoid missing any pieces for reassembling after that

Place the Hardware in the Plastic Bags

We highly suggest marking each door with a numbering system when removing them so that you can quickly locate their right positions later on. You do not have to remove the attached slides if you spray only the front parts. Number the slides if you do want to repaint them.

Number the Doors

Step 2: Clean the Cabinets

Before sanding and painting, you must brush all of the surfaces dirtied by grease, steam, and food splatters with a clean microfiber cloth. You can use a mixture of tri-sodium phosphate and water with a one-four portion. Do not drench the cabinets, and let them dry thoroughly.

Clean the Cabinets

Step 3: Sand the Slides

Sand all the faces and sides of the doors tenderly. To keep the wood edges sharp at first, we recommend a sanding block made of wood. Do not sand and paint the interiors if you upgrade the cabinets’ front faces. Instead, you can dress the inside finish with a cleaner look by using a painter’s tape.

Use a Wood Sanding Block to Sand the Doors

If the old paint layers remain in the pink, you need to coarsen the surface for a better-adhered base when applying a new paint overlay. Attentively check the badly worn areas and remember to sand over the glossy regions so that the leftover finish’s glossiness gets stripped. You maybe have to use steel wool and denatured alcohol to eliminate some unwanted spots though

On the other hand, supposing that the old paint flaking off the surfaces means the finish’s adhesion to the wood surface was not good. It is commonly owing to the dampness and oily leftovers hovering under the paint layers or into the wood itself. Therefore, use a stain-killing sealer to sand these areas until the wood turns bare.

Last but not least, vacuum the sanding dust out of the cracked spots.

Vacuum the Sanding Dust

Step 4: Tape Your Place

Before painting, you must tape the floor, countertops, ceiling, walls, and cabinets’ interiors. This part is usually the least liking of a spraying process, and it also consumes a more significant number of efforts than you think. Hence, conduct the taping step slowly and carefully.

Tape Your Kitchen

Step 5: Set Up a “Spray Booth”

It will be best if you set up a “spray booth” or a spacious area to paint your cabinet doors and drawers and dry these parts. Keep in mind that your “booth” should necessarily have doors for ventilation.

Prepare a small table with a piece of fiberboard, and nail five finish nails on the board. This way helps elevate the cabinet doors and prevent them from sticking to the table areas while spraying. You can do the same for the outside of your booth.

Step 6: Prime and Paint the Cabinets

Priming and Painting the Cabinet Doors

First of all, prime the door’s outside edge with narrow sprays, and after that is the center area for the full coverage. Thoroughly shift it to the drying area. Gradually, you can paint the doors splendidly. The priming step may take you the most extended wait if you want to ensure your well-covered doors.

Note down the math, two sides with one coat of primer and two coats of paint. You have to spend about two or three days painting and waiting before everything is rehanged.

Priming and Painting the Cabinet Drawers

You should save this part for last because your kitchen will unfeasibly operate during the spraying process. Generally speaking, stick to the approach that works for the doors on the frames.

Tips and Tricks for Painting Cabinets

Tape off the bottom, two sides, and top of the frames first, then do with the inside edge later.
Place your cabinet hinges in ziplock bags after taking them off, and wrap these bags inside cabinet frames.
It is much wiser of you to start by painting the interiors of cabinets first. The reason is that while painting, you can make some unexpected mistakes. Therefore, the parts wrongly painted will be in the unnoticeable place of the cabinets. You’ll have a lesson for the next painting as well. Plus, painting the inside first can help you avoid any scratches from the nails used to stabilize your cabinets while drying.
At the end of the painting day, do not forget to clean your HVLP spray gun. Besides, it would help if you emptied the spray cup by drenching it in warm water and then spreading it until the water runs clear. Also, with this, you do not have to clean the needle every time you paint.

Conclusion

Hopefully, this paper has provided you with the most straightforward guideline on how to paint cabinets with a paint sprayer. Make sure to scrutinize all the steps before practicing the process.

Do not hesitate to ask us if you have any problems while painting your kitchen cabinets with sprayer by commenting in the box below. We are looking forward to seeing your spray painting kitchen cabinets before and after.

Stay home, stay safe, and glow off your kitchen.

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