Begin painting by labeling each door and its cabinet bay with a number printed on painters’ tape. This will help you replace the doors and drawers. Remove all the doors, drawers, and hardware. Clean all surfaces—front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, edges—with a grease-cutting cleaner such as synthetic trisodium phosphate (TSP). Follow the directions carefully.
Sand all surfaces with 100-grit sandpaper. Fill all screw holes and nicks and dents with wood filler, and then sand smooth when dry. If you are reusing the same hardware, you do not need to fill the screw holes.
Prime the surfaces. Use a synthetic brush to paint all surfaces with a coat of high-quality, sandable acrylic primer. Allow the primer to dry. Sand with 150-grit sandpaper to remove brush marks and drips.
Apply a coat of latex enamel paint using 3"-wide short nap rollers. Make sure to smooth out any drips. Allow the paint to dry completely. Apply a second coat. Allow to dry thoroughly. Install the hardware and rehang the doors.
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