Tips On Painting A Six Panel Door

Hi i am painting my bathroom trim and 6 panel doors white on the inside.

Tips on painting a six panel door.

Door painting priming tips. If you have flat non panel versions you can skip this post and come back later. My bathroom color is behr bright white but i wanted to use behr delicate lace on the other side which faces into bedroom and the the other into the. Brush gives proper style if running with the wood grains.

The doors open into the bathroom however when closed the one is part of the bedroom and the other part of the hallway. As you mentioned above i think use brush to paint a 6 panel door. Your choice of primer is just as important as your choice of paint. Well sit back and let me give you some tips and a tutorial for painting a door.

Seriously painting six panel doors is not for chumps. Here is a link that might be useful. The new paint will stick better and you ll get a more uniform finish. Chris and i have painted a lot of six panel doors in our time we installed and painted 8 new doors at our first house and every door in our current house is a primed and unpainted six panel door in need of paint.

If you prefer reading the tips here they are. The jordan house has builder standard hollow core 6 panel doors with the faux wood grain like many newer or remodeled houses so this video shares both general tips for painting doors and the specific process of how to paint a 6 panel door and how to paint the faux wood grain without brush strokes. But priming the whole door is best. For the rest of us get out your paper and pencils and take some notes does.

Our doors are all the six panel type. I would also like to suggest you that before start painting the doors you should lay down the doors to reduce drip and improve paint. In the process of painting all those doors i ve developed this easy method for how to paint a door without brush marks or streaks. A video showing process of painting an interior door.

This tutorial pertains to any paneled door interior or exterior. You can spot prime a door coating only patched dents or areas you sanded through to bare wood. Aubrey describes all the equipment required and gives step by step instructions so that you can confidently achieve great results.