How to Paint a Bathroom Cabinet in a Weekend

Paint a Bathroom Cabinet This Weekend

Follow the easy steps below if you’d like to transform your bathroom cabinet or vanity in just a few hours with paint.

Lightly sand your cabinets and doors with Coarse Sandpaper at the start of your project.

Use a cleaning product like Krud Kutter to prepare your cabinets for painting. Use paper towels or a cleaning cloth or rag to apply Krud Kutter.

After I cleaned the cabinets, I removed the doors from the cabinets with my NEX L1 PRO cordless screwdriver. I also used my cordless screwdriver to remove the hardware from the doors. I stored the hardware in the bathroom cabinet while painting.

Inexpensive Foam Paint Brushes work well for painting bathroom cabinets. With these brushes I was able to avoid brush strokes in my paint.

Lightly sand between coats of paint with an Extra Fine Sanding Sponge. (This helps to get an extra smooth finish.)

You can use simple Wood Blocks (or you could use scraps of wood or boards) to lift the cabinet doors up from your painting surface (e.g., the table or floor). Or you could purchase Painters Pyramids.

If you decide to add knobs and pulls (if your cabinets didn’t have them before), a Hardware Knob/Handle Pull Drill Mounting Template will help you to mark where to drill the holes in the cabinet doors for the new hardware. (I added knobs to my cabinets a few before this project.)

I laid my cabinet doors out on the bathroom floor for painting. I discovered that the paint dried quite quickly on the cabinet doors!

After I painted the cabinet doors, I painted the frame of the bathroom cabinet. I put at least two coats of paint on the cabinet frame. I let the paint dry completely in between coats.

I think the painted cabinet coordinates so much better with my current bathroom design and decor than the orange oak cabinets did!

This was a rewarding and easy project!

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