Bathroom Cabinet Painting Mistakes To Avoid in St. Louis, MO

Your bathroom cabinets are quite an important part of your bathroom as they store just about everything you’re going to be using on a regular basis in the bathroom.

As important as it is in your bathroom, you will want to make sure that your cabinets are looking good and not to let them get to the point appearance-wise that you question whether it’s still worth keeping them.

Though painting your bathroom cabinets is of course a good idea, you will find that when you make painting errors it can happen that your painting project will really be thrown off course — but if you can make the time to learn about these mistakes you will be able to do a better overall painting project.

Let’s look at some bathroom cabinet painting mistakes to avoid in St. Louis, MO

1. Not Checking For Mildew

One mistake that a lot of people make when they’re painting their bathroom cabinets is that they don’t make the time to check for mold or mildew anywhere in the bathroom prior to starting their painting project.

The issue with not checking for mildew is that people will sometimes think that if you are painting cabinets, you can just overlook the mildew or mold that is there and that when you paint the problem will be all covered up, so to speak.

This is not the case at all and what you will end up doing instead is set yourself up for having bathroom cabinets that are going to have mold and mildew later on – and that’s not something you’re going to want to see.

2. Not Cleaning Before You Paint

Speaking of painting before being ready, if you have the same sort of mindset about painting your bathroom cabinets before they are ready to be painted.

One area where you have to clean is the cabinets themselves, which you should not think about painting before you have fully cleaned the surfaces being cleaned.

Much like the idea that you can paint without checking for mold and mildew, you aren’t going to be able to paint over dirt or grime and have a successful painting project in that all you’re going to get by doing this is have bathroom cabinets that are covered in dirt, grime, and paint.

3. Leaving On Hardware

If you have typical bathroom cabinets, they’re going to have hardware on the doors and drawers that are going to make it a lot easier for you to access the contents of the cabinets.

When you’re looking to paint your bathroom cabinets, you might get the notion that it would be a lot easier to somehow protect the hardware and then just sort of paint around it rather than to make the time to remove the hardware entirely, paint the doors and drawers, and then eventually replace the hardware.

You might get to thinking this because it might seem that the time that you’re going to invest in removing the hardware is going to be a lot greater than if you just make sure to carefully paint around the hardware and protect it with painter’s tape.

The issue with this is that just by having that hardware there, it will be that much more difficult to paint the surface because the hardware is going to get in the way of your smooth brush strokes.

Make the time to remove the hardware and look at your bare hardware-free cabinets before you start fully applying the primer that comes before the paint and appreciate how good they are going to look.

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