The Closet Cabinets Are Painted! (Plus, Why I Didn’t Spray The Cabinets, And Why I’m Not Using A Clear Topcoat)

Right here’s how they turned out…

I took all of those photos with the huge angle setting on my cellphone, which makes the room look bigger (longer) than it truly is. I imply, the room isn’t tiny. It’s 11’4″ huge and 15’10” lengthy, however the huge angle does distort it a bit. Utilizing a large angle is the one means I can get the entire cupboards within the photograph, although.

The colour is Sherwin Williams Billowy Breeze, which is a really mild blue with a touch of inexperienced in it. I believe that inexperienced retains it from trying like a blue that belongs in a child’s room. I used their Emerald Urethane Trim Enamel in a satin end.

This room nonetheless has horrible lighting (simply the one mild on the ceiling fan for now), so I’m sure it’s going to look a lot better once I lastly get the brand new lighting put in within the room. I’ll be changing the ceiling fan with a chandelier, after which including at the very least 5 recessed lights, plus accent lighting with 4 sconces within the room.

I had deliberate on doing the flooring subsequent, beginning tomorrow morning, however I believe I’ve modified my plan. As an alternative, I’ll spend tomorrow engaged on the lighting. Since I’ve to chop holes within the ceiling drywall, that’s going to be a really messy and dusty challenge, so I’d prefer to get it executed earlier than I begin on the flooring. That means, I may also get the ceiling painted earlier than I do the flooring, which I believe makes far more sense.

Plus, it could actually be good to see this closet in good lighting, and to have a lot better lighting to work by as I proceed with the opposite initiatives that should be executed.

Anyway, I’m so excited to have this enormous challenge checked off of my listing for this room. Clearly, these perimeter cupboards had been the most important a part of this closet, so having them executed appears like I’ve turned a nook. Whereas I do nonetheless have a really lengthy listing of issues that should be executed in right here (which I shared in yesterday’s post), it appears like the remainder shall be a simple jog to the end line by comparability.

How I Painted My Closet Cupboards

To color these cupboards, I used a brush to chop in round the entire corners and to color the trim. You possibly can see that on this photograph that I shared yesterday.

I did two coats of paint, so as soon as I had the primary coat executed, the paint was dry sufficient to begin on the second coat. I did the entire slicing in and trim with each coats of paint earlier than portray the remainder.

After which I painted the entire massive, flat surfaces with a 6-inch curler labeled for clean surfaces.

Why I didn’t spray my cupboards

The primary purpose I didn’t spray them was as a result of I completed the cupboards in a really piecemeal means. And I did it that means as a result of that’s simply how I work. I don’t all the time do issues within the order wherein they take advantage of sense, or within the order which is most effective. I work in an order that may preserve me , motivated, and transferring ahead.

So by the point I had primed, caulked, and sanded the cupboards on the best aspect of the room, I used to be prepared to maneuver on to color. I didn’t wish to wait till I had completed the priming, caulking, and sanding on the left aspect of the room. After which by the point I received two coats of paint on the primary two sections of cupboards on the best aspect of the room, I used to be anxious to get the wallpaper and sconces up. There’s no means I might have executed that out of order if I had been spraying my cupboards. However that’s the order wherein I wanted and needed to do them for my very own peace of thoughts. I didn’t wish to be caught within the priming, caulking, and sanding stage for a number of extra days with out seeing among the fairly stuff lastly being executed. I wanted that psychological break from the mundane duties, and seeing the beautiful wallpaper and sconces motivated me much more to get the opposite aspect of the room completed.

It’s undoubtedly not essentially the most environment friendly technique to do it, however since I do the entire work myself, I’ve to do what I’ve to do to maintain myself motivated.

In case you’ve been round right here lengthy in any respect, you understand I like to make use of a transparent topcoat on cupboards and furnishings which were painted with latex paint. However this time, I received’t be doing that. That is my first time utilizing Sherwin Williams Emerald paint in a satin end, and it’s good all by itself. The paint us sturdy, and the end is attractive. No clear topcoat is required in any respect.

Up to now, I’ve used clear topcoats for 2 causes: (1) so as to add sturdiness to decrease high quality paints, and (2) to knock down the sheen on paint that’s too shiny for my style.

The primary purpose is why I all the time used a transparent topcoat if I painted cupboards or furnishings with Behr paint. Behr paint all the time appears to retain a slight tackiness to the end, prefer it by no means fully dries. So if I paint bookcases or a credenza prime with Behr, after which place objects on the cabinets or credenza prime, they stick. To stop that, I all the time used a transparent topcoat which took care of the issue and added sturdiness to the end.

The second purpose is why I used a transparent topcoat even once I used an costly and high-quality paint (Benjamin Moore Advance) on my kitchen cupboards. The bottom sheen out there within the Advance paint was nonetheless means too shiny for my style, so I ended up topcoating it with Common Finishes Excessive Efficiency Topcoat in a flat end. It pissed off me to spend that a lot on a high-quality paint solely to need to clearcoat it, however that sheen was simply an excessive amount of for me.

However the Emerald paint is sturdy, and the satin end is attractive. So for the primary time in a really very long time, I received’t be utilizing a transparent topcoat. I’m bought on Emerald Urethane paint in a satin end. I’ll be utilizing this paint for all of my cupboard and furnishings initiatives sooner or later.