#How to paint kitchen cabinets

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Goodness gracious this is going to be long, so let s go!

Set your time you re going to do it. There will never be a perfect time with nothing going on, you ve just got to block it off the calendar and GO! We chose to do it in the spring when my husband could give me 2 full days when he had some time off for spring break.

Number all doors and drawers with numbers and leave a number back where you got them from so there is no confusion and they will hang correctly when you re-attach them.

We spray painted our hinges with brushed nickel spray paint, so my boys put the screws in a piece of styrofoam to get them ready for spray paint.

If you have lots of build-up on your cabinets you may have to clean first with a degreaser. The Zinsser primer we used said specifically to avoid TSP cleaner, so we skipped that and just used Fantastik spray degreaser.

Sand all the doors and drawers with an electric palm sander. If you don t have one, it is well worth the $30 investment. Fill in any big scrapes or holes with wood filler, let it dry then sand them down nice and smooth.