Re Hanging Cabinet Doors After Painting

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Re hanging cabinet doors after painting.

Hole in the bottom of the door and two at the top then turn 4 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. How to redo kitchen cabinets after they have been painted with latex paint. 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.

You can sand and paint or stain old 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. And you can still paint both sides in a day if you rest the door on lag screws. For a whole row of cabinets you can level each one with the first door you hang.

Lag screws 1 1 2 in. For a uniform paint finish. Re hanging kitchen cabinet doors after painting installing new cabinet hinges. Allow the paint to dry then re install all hardware and hang your brand new in appearance anyway kitchen cabinets.

With the door laid flat on sawhorses you can spread paint more quickly and not worry about drips and paint sags. Doors won t close after painting and swapping hinges. The big task though was installing new cabinet hinges on all of the finished lower doors. If you ve decided that it s time to redo your kitchen cabinets it may help to remember the painter s maxim.

Keep the old ones at least for making sure you re buying the new ones that most closely match. Contact options for registered users. 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. 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.