34+ Cleaning Painted Cabinets Before Repainting UK. In this video, i show you how i clean my painted kitchen cabinets, how my painted kitchen cabinets look one year after painting, and give you my recipe for. If you're getting ready to paint your kitchen cabinets, cleaning them is your first and most important step.
Painted cabinets look lovely, but they aren't going to look totally smooth.
After you have painted a light coat of color on your cabinets and it is dry, you will see every imperfection perfectly. Labeling your doors, cleaning and prepping the wood, priming, and sanding in between coats of paint are absolutely necessary for a great finished product. Painting over cracked paint is a bad idea; The most important step of prepping your cabinets (and sometimes the only required step depending on the type of paint you are using) is giving them a good, deep clean.