How To Paint My Kitchen Cabinets

I'm now going to show you how to paint kitchen cabinets. The first thing I've done is prime this surface. The primer depends on the type of surface you've got.

If you have a melamine surface, you'll need a special primer for melamine surfaces. The one I've got here is wood and I've done it in a wood primer. The finish I'm going to do is the traditional egg shell finish with a stipple.

Firstly, brush the panel in, brush in the main panel. I've got a brush in the beans as well, the edge of the beans, working my way around. Try and keep a nice even coat all over.

Doesn't matter which way you actually brush this because we're actually going to use a stipple brush to get all brush marks out and I'm going to show you that in a minute but firstly, I'm just going to coat the whole area up. Now, I'm happy, now that's all fairly even. I'm going to use a stipple brush.

This is basically a hog hair brush. Just going to put a little bit, dab a bit on the edge here. Now, with a stipple brush, you want to hit it head on.

So, you work your way round, stifling. There's no real direction. It's best if you break it up actually and work your way round.

As you're doing this, it's actually breaking up all the brush marks you've just done. Actually, giving it the effect of an egg shell and that is why egg shell paint is called egg shell. When you finish the center of your panel, you can then go on and do your outside edges, same technique, brush the area in, use your stipple brush, stipple it out.

You'll have to let this dry and you may find you will have to give it to two coats. And that's how to paint kitchen cabinets. .