Painting Ikea Cabinets White

To match our interior walls we painted the cabinet doors with benjamin moore s satin impervo paint in white chocolate.

Painting ikea cabinets white. So i decided to buy all white cabinets and drawer fronts. I like to use cheap foam brushes to apply primer to avoid brush marks. When we moved into our house in 2010 we installed an ikea kitchen see post here on the kitchen installation. 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.

Before i dive in this is a tutorial for painting laminate ikea furniture. For us we were painting our cabinets white and ikea s white was off white it wasn t going to fly with our white as white cabinets. And that laminate finish is something that can t easily be painted. But not all ikea furniture is alike and therefore not all requires the same paint treatment.

Here s how i did it. I don t have a straight on of the island cabinets but i do of the pantry you can see it was the original white. Real life kitchen remodel disaster. Oil paint primer needs to be applied in a well ventilated area as fumes are quite strong.

I could remove the trim to make it less noticable. Ikea does have a warranty for this however they were installed prior to us moving in and we don t have the receipt. But recently i figured out the trick to painting ikea furniture that makes it totally doable. Has this happened to anyone.

Ikea sektion cabinet fronts are already finished and painted. Im so happy i found this post because right before i was a out to purchase an entire ikea kitchen i realized the adel white cabinets are actually off white and not bright white like i was wanting. Installed the upper cabinets and added crown moulding. At ikea they said we probably couldn t paint this style but could probably paint the ramsjo.

Our finished painted ikea cabinets perfectly matched our interior and the soft matte finish of the paint added depth and character to cabinet doors. I took one to the store but they had no suggestions. We re big fans of ikea hacks and upgrades so we re completely in favor of adding a little personality with paint. It s not grease or dirt.

I prepared to paint doors and side panels by first sanding all bodbyn doors slightly to remove. The plan was to leave the upper cabinets white and paint the lower cabinets navy blue. So i wiped it off and gave up. In fact years ago i tried painting a billy bookcase only to see the paint on it bead right up.

I m referring to ikea s popular material of choice. Particleboard covered in laminate. Painting ikea sektion kitchen cabinets. Always prime this will help the paint to bond to the surface and if its the laminate effect ikea pieces you are painting then it needs to be an oil based primer.

We have white ikea kitchen cabinets that are about 6 years old.