How to paint the kitchen set yourself?

In any house the most visited place, certainly, is the kitchen. The whole family gathers at breakfast, lunch or dinner, discusses pressing problems and plans for the future. Therefore, the appearance of the room as a whole, of all its elements, plays an incredibly important role. On how good it will be, depends self-awareness, the mood of all family members. No man will enjoy life, walk with a smile on his face, if he is annoyed by his own kitchen with his bored look, which has not changed for years. Therefore, having a sufficient amount of funds, it is better to do it renewal. Many believe that this will have to spend a lot of money, but they are mistaken, because it is enough to update it externally, and the situation will radically change. Today we will dwell on how to paint the kitchen set with our own hands with minimal effort and in the shortest possible time.

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Ways to update your favorite kitchen headset

There are several options for updating the appearance of the headset, each of which is good in its own way, has certain features.

Replacement of facades, doors with new

elements. To make such an update, you do not need to apply any special effort - it is enough:

1. Order them already ready for production at the furniture factory.
2. Then remove the old items, put in their place new ones.

Even a beginner can cope with this task, but that's just the embodiment of this idea is not cheap. More cheaper is still the painting of furniture facades.

Decorating with interesting elements, veneering with veneer

This kind of finishing costs cheaper, but the artist requires certain skills, as everything must be done carefully so that a crack or veneer does not appear on the surface. But, if everything is done qualitatively, then the result will be unsurpassed.

Application of vinyl adhesive film

Use for this you can use materials of different colors, with drawings and any textures. In terms of labor costs, this method is incredibly simple, you just need to be cautious. The facades are first degreased, then the film is glued on top.

Lacquer coating

Although not much, but you can change the appearance of the facades in such a way, they will become shiny, they will acquire a certain charm.

Painting of furniture facades

This is the most simple variant of updating kitchen sets, which we will talk about further.

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How to choose the color solution for painting kitchen façades?

Successfully matched color is the key to successfully updating the headset. Painting the facades of the kitchen with your own hands is good in its own way, because you can choose the palette in your discretion to create something beautiful and boring as a result. Recently, especially popular kitchens, which combine several color options. So, what is the solution to choose, how best to combine shades, what to do to a person who does not know much about design art?

Use the tips below to make the furniture facades look impressive and give an interesting result:

• Specialists consider neutral beige, black, brown, gray, white palette. When it comes to wood, special attention should be paid to the colors of unpainted wood. Choosing neutral combinations, it's hard to be mistaken - you should be careful about the options for combining several dark colors to competently paint the kitchen set with your own hands.

Important! Most often there are kitchen sets, painted on top in a light shade, and below - in a dark color. The use of this method makes furniture less bulky.

• Remember that the interior completely loses its individuality in the case of unobtrusive shades. Therefore, it is better to dilute the headset by dosing a bright color, use it in decorative decoration, decorating walls or choosing a shade of curtains.
• Unbeatable neutral schemes are black and white, combining shades of light and dark wood( dark and light oak, bleached oak and wenge), as well as a combination of neutral shades and natural wood colors( white and wenge, glossy cappuccino and wenge, light and ebony).

During the selection you need to be guided by your own taste preferences. But forget about the saturation of flowers is not worth it. Below are the most successful and popular examples of combinations of shades, if you decide to paint the kitchen set yourself:

• Red + beige.
• Black + red.
• Green + wenge.
• Pink + black.
• Lilac + cappuccino.
• Raspberry + white.
• Light green + black.
• Orange + wood.
• Blue + white.

These are rather risky, but positive solutions, suggesting an alliance of pastel and saturated colors. There are no certain rules for their correct combination. When you think about painting a kitchen set with your own hands, you can take a specific idea or theme as the basis, if you have no thoughts of your own.

Important! For the kitchen, the most relevant topic is fruit and vegetable, so it is recommended to combine green and orange, peach and green, red and yellow tones. If you choose which paint to paint the kitchen set with your own hands to make the room bright and memorable, then try to combine several opposite colors.

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What should be stocked with tools and materials?

It's obvious that you can repaint the kitchen set yourself using several methods. Having identified the most appropriate option, you can start preparing the necessary means of protection, tools and materials. Despite the seeming simplicity of this procedure, it is not recommended to neglect your safety.

stock up on everything you need according to the following list:

• Gloves.
• Safety glasses.
• Headpiece for hair protection.
• Respirator.
• High-quality paint.
• Primer composition.
• Putty.
• Brush.
• Screwdriver.
• Spatula.
• Roller.
• New hardware.

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Features of preparation of surfaces a headset for painting

Preparation of facades for painting does not involve anything complicated, but still this process should be disassembled in detail. Step by step it looks like this:

1. Doors and fittings. In many cases it is enough to just unscrew the doors and some details of the facade. After removing the doors and getting rid of the accessories attached to them, you can proceed to the next stage.
2. Surface cleaning. To prepare the facades at this stage should be using a grinder or sandpaper. The main thing here is to achieve the maximum smoothness of the treated surfaces. It is necessary to get rid of all the burrs, chips and other shortcomings.
3. Putty on the facade. To finally level the working surface, it is necessary to put a putty on it. After the first layer has dried, it is necessary to sand it to remove all cracks, irregularities and defects.

Only after achieving the ideal smoothness of all surfaces, you can proceed to the main stage - painting the kitchen set yourself.

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Paint the kitchen set with your own hands

So, we decided what to paint the kitchen set with our own hands, what we need for this, how to prepare for work, which means that the painting time is coming. First you need all the elements that will be painted, decomposed in such a way that it is most convenient to work with them and then dry them.

Important! Experts recommend to pre-treat the set with a strongly diluted paint, but this is not necessary. It is also necessary to decide what you will paint - a roller, brush or spray can with aerosol paint.

Roller or brush

To paint the kitchen set with your own hands with a roller and brush is quite simple, and this process has such features:

1. The paint is thoroughly shaken or mixed.
2. Then it is checked that the brush is well rinsed and has no traces of the old paint.
3. If in some places you can not reach the roller, then use the brush. It can be protrusions, corners, grooves and grooves.
4. Smooth surfaces should be painted with a foam rubber roller. First, the paint is applied to it in a small even layer so that there are no empty spots and drops on it.
5. It is recommended that the roller be dipped into the paint in a special container, so that it is convenient to squeeze out the excess composition.
6. Painting should be smooth and smooth movements. It is necessary to watch, that each layer was equal, without admissions and flows.
7. To get the color as deep and bright as possible, you need to paint all the elements several times.

Balloon paint

It's even easier to work with aerosol cans and a spray gun. It is enough to protect the parts detached from the headset, which will be painted, so as not to stain everything around. This option is considered preferable, since it is not only convenient to work with cans, but also the paint is applied evenly. And also - you can create original drawings on surfaces using stencils. In the end, all the elements return to their places.

And now decide for yourself how and how to paint the facade of the kitchen with your own hands, guided by the above recommendations and advice. After staining, only the front part of your kitchen will change, but it will look different from now on. If this is not enough, you can still dilute the situation with additional details and decorations, which are simply glued to the surface of the headset. At the same time, attention should also be paid to the color design and texture of other objects in the kitchen. During the renovation, try to use different techniques of decorative decoration. You can change the usual kind of room as much as you like, so it will never bore you.