I thought I could cut my teeth on a few drawers. But painting a few drawers required a lot of equipment. A sander. Sandpaper. Fancy, high-VOC primer (Zinsser BIN Shellac-Based Primer-Sealer, to be exact). Wood putty. So it ended up being less of an introduction and more of a head-first dive.
A long, slow, dive.
All the instructions I've found online say that painting cabinets isn't quick. "Not a weekend project", they say. Well, yeah. As I sit here over three weeks later and am only maybe starting to see the end in sight.
See, the process sounds straightforward. Clean, sand, prime, sand, paint, sand, paint, done. Even with a day between each coat that's still just three painting days.
But cabinet doors have two sides. So expand that to six. And even after borrowing a portable table from my parents I only have space to lay out four cabinet doors at once. And I have 16 doors. So that's four sets of doors, six days each...My mind boggles.
But the product is looking good. The drawer hardware arrived on Friday and I ran to take pictures of it on the only finished portion of the kitchen - two of those original drawers on the one section of frames I had finished.
But there's a long way to go.
