How To Paint Ikea Laminate Kitchen Cabinets

I m talking about their lovely material of choice for most of their products.

How to paint ikea laminate kitchen cabinets. In fact years ago i tried painting a billy bookcase only to see the paint on it bead right up. Heavy particle board that is covered in laminate. You just need to know how to paint ikea furniture the right way. Kimberly duran on february 2 2017 at 2 06 pm.

Particleboard covered in laminate. Then why not paint your laminate cupboards using white knight laminate paint. When we moved into our house in 2010 we installed an ikea kitchen see post here on the kitchen installation. We re big fans of ikea hacks and upgrades so we re completely in favor of adding a little personality with paint.

But recently i figured out the trick to painting ikea furniture that makes it totally doable. Let me preface this post by saying not all ikea furniture can be painted the same way but probably 95 of it. In this step by step video on how to paint laminate cabin. I m referring to ikea s popular material of choice.

Ikea furniture can be tricky to paint at times especially the laminate coated pieces but when done the right way can make such a huge difference you can see for yourself by viewing some of my ikea projects here. As explained above and in my tutorial on painting a bathroom vanity the paint we used for painting our laminate kitchen cabinets was the benjamin moore advance line. So i wiped it off and gave up. Before i dive in this is a tutorial for painting laminate ikea furniture.

But not all ikea furniture is alike and therefore not all requires the same paint treatment. We had always intended to paint the kitchen cabinets to a light greenish blue color sherwin williams sea salt as evidenced in that 2010 blog post. Our plan is to paint them at some point in the future. Today i am sharing how i paint ikea furniture in 5 easy to do steps.

Freshen up your kitchen and save money by painting your kitchen cabinets instead of replacing them.