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 footage with the broad 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″ broad and 15’10” lengthy, however the broad angle does distort it a bit. Utilizing a large angle is the one manner I can get the entire cupboards within the picture, although.

The colour is Sherwin Williams Billowy Breeze, which is a really gentle blue with a touch of inexperienced in it. I feel the contact of inexperienced added to the blue 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 gentle on the ceiling fan for now), so I’m sure it’ll look a lot better after 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 a minimum of 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 feel I’ve modified my plan. As a substitute, 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 mission, so I’d wish to get it completed earlier than I begin on the flooring. That manner, I may also get the ceiling painted earlier than I do the flooring, which I feel makes far more sense.

Plus, it will 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 tasks that should be completed.

Anyway, I’m so excited to have this enormous mission checked off of my record for this room. Clearly, these perimeter cupboards have been the largest a part of this closet, so having them completed seems like I’ve turned a nook. Whereas I do nonetheless have a really lengthy record of issues that should be completed in right here (which I shared in yesterday’s post), it seems like the remaining will probably be a straightforward 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 picture that I shared yesterday.

I did two coats of paint, so as soon as I had the primary coat completed, the paint was dry sufficient to start out on the second coat. I did the entire chopping in and trim with each coats of paint earlier than portray the remaining.

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

So by the point I had primed, caulked, and sanded the cupboards on the proper facet 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 facet of the room. After which by the point I acquired two coats of paint on the primary two sections of cupboards on the proper facet of the room, I used to be anxious to get the wallpaper and sconces up. There’s no manner I might have completed that out of order if I have been spraying my cupboards. However that’s the order by which 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 a number of the fairly stuff lastly being completed. I wanted that psychological break from the mundane duties, and seeing the gorgeous wallpaper and sconces motivated me much more to get the opposite facet of the room completed.

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

When you’ve been round right here lengthy in any respect, you recognize I really like to make use of a transparent topcoat on cupboards and furnishings which have been 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.

Previously, 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 cause 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 utterly dries. So if I paint bookcases or a credenza prime with Behr, after which place gadgets on the cabinets or credenza prime, they stick. To forestall that, I all the time used a transparent topcoat which took care of the issue and added sturdiness to the end.

The second cause is why I used a transparent topcoat even after I used an costly and high-quality paint (Benjamin Moore Advance) on my kitchen cupboards. The bottom sheen accessible within the Advance paint was nonetheless manner too shiny for my style, so I ended up topcoating it with Normal Finishes Excessive Efficiency Topcoat in a flat end. It pissed off me to spend that a lot on a high-quality paint solely to should 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 tasks sooner or later.