Raised Cabinets - Part 4
Step 4: Spraying Primer & Paint
Alright! Now the fun part begins. Things will now finally start to look like you planned for them to look a long time ago. First off, there was no way that I wanted to hand-prime and then hand-paint 19 doors front and back in addition to all of the face frames (multiple coats I might add). If you are willing to do that then go for it! However, I decided that I needed my hands and preferred to keep my sanity. This is precisely why I invested in a Graco Paint Sprayer! I knew it would be great for the cabinets because I had already practiced using it by re-painting all of our interior doors (which only took about 20 minutes...but that's another story for another time). For this step I simply used some coat hangers and few hooks, made a quick spray booth in my garage, sprayed each door and then laid them out to dry.
See previous steps:
This is the Graco TruCoat Plus II and I first tested it out by repainting all of our interior doors!
Getting the doors off of the hinges and into the garage and hanging plastic did take some time, however painting these doors with the sprayer took no time at all. So worth it!
And of course, I had to attach the GoPro in order to take a few action shots!
And of course, I had to attach the GoPro in order to take a few action shots! (see video above)
In each door I attached little hooks into the tops or bottoms of the door (whichever would be out of sight). I then simply sprayed light coats of primer and hung them on hangers to dry. I would fill these holes later.
I did not encounter any drips by hanging these like this because I managed to spray multiple light coats
However, once I moved on to spraying the final top coats I moved to spraying a little heavier and then laying them out to dry
It took a little longer (and a lot more space) but I felt a little safer spraying them one side at a time and laying them out to dry once I was near the final coat.
This is just Behr's White Semi-Gloss Alkyd Enamel. It worked very nice and looks really good eh?
While the doors were drying I took the time to hand paint all of the face frames and sprayed all of the boxes that would go on top
Once all the paint dried (and I gave it a few days), I began putting on hardware and moving everything into place. Alright!