Do You Need To Sand If Youre Repainting Kitchen Cabinets. Your next step is a doozy—you'll need to sand all surfaces you intend to repaint. Remove all of your cabinet drawers and doors and tackle them wit ha medium grit sand paper on an orbital sander.
Although this sounds like the better option, it's not always the case. Protect your floor with cardboard or drop cloths. Cabinets that have been previously finished have resins, impacted stain, oils and dirt that ruin sandpaper.
Use a wood sanding block to prevent rounding over the wood edges.
Now for the long answer: potentially, but there's still some prep involved.
If the cabinets are in super-bad shape (really scratched or dinged up) or you want to smooth out a wood grain, sanding may be necessary. "I've found that most cabinets people want to repaint are in pretty good shape, and they don't mind if you can see a little wood grain," says Dowding. What I would do differently if I found myself painting kitchen cabinets again: prep and prime in one mega starting-at-dawn work day Allow at least five to seven days to build up the paint in thin layers, lightly sanding back and wiping away the dust between coats. It's time to tackle painting that stained piece you have been avoiding because you thought you had to sand!
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