Painting Kitchen Cabinets – Day 1.25

Well, I managed to work about 2 1/2 hours yesterday on painting the kitchen. It was raining yesterday morning, In Vegas we’ll take rain any day and love it, so I started to work in the late afternoon.

Just in case it started to rain while I was working, I slapped together a work table under the porch from a wheelbarrow, an old door and some scrap wood to level it.

I purchased a 2″ and 4″ roller to see if that would help apply the paint faster than using the 6″ roller.

The thing that is taking the longest is doing the doors and drawer fronts so I started on those first.

When sanding and painting the drawer fronts I made sure not to sand off or paint over the number I put on the back of the drawer fronts. I really don’t want to have to figure out which front goes where by the screw holes.

When inspecting the previous day’s work I noticed there was some crazy stain / substance coming through the Kilz 2 primer.

There was no way any amount of primer was going to cover that so I scraped and sanded the cabinet in that spot. After that the stain didn’t come back when the primer was reapplied.

The rolling action on the Whizz 2″ roller was pretty bad. I ended up using it as just a sponge to paint the edges of the cabinet.

What worked great was the 4″ roller. I was able to get into some smaller areas that I was using a brush before. In fact I eventually ditched the 2″ roller and used the combination of 4″ roller and small brush.

The thing that really paid off was having the larger work area under the patio.

I was able to get a total of 3 coats on the cabinets I started earlier and made more progress on the cabinet doors and drawers in that area of the kitchen.