Painting French Doors

If the underlying paint is already latex deglossing will help your new paint adhere to the layer underneath.

Painting french doors. Ive spray painted door knobs door handles hinges etc. Scraping the paint can be messy. Painting the french door. It sticks to pretty much everything and any paint will stick to it.

The most difficult frustrating part of painting a french door of course if figuring out how to avoid getting paint all over the glass and how to end up with a nice crisp finished product. What a great idea. To get the best results you should prime your french doors before painting them. If your door is painted with oil based paint and youre painting over it with latex youll have to sand and prime first.

A paint brush and paint roller are all you need to apply a perfect coat of paint. If the idea of spending days and days taping off each pane of glass sounds torturous to you youre not alone. Before too such a money saver. Taping takes forever and doesnt do a perfect job.

White paint does make french doors more airy which is one of the sought after aspects of these doors. The best way to paint french doors especially if they have old glossy paint on them is to start with a coat of zinsser bin shellac based primer. That said i didnt use primer on this particular door. Luckily theres a much easier way to paint french doors.

Paint as precisely as you can in long strokes that follow the direction of the wood. I think your painted french doors as well as the rest of the doors in your home look fabulous. However the black give these definition personable ness and somewhat of a european flavor. Carefully paint a door with primer and wait for it to dry.

After the paint dries your french doors can become a bright and vibrant part of your home. Youll never go wrong starting with a primer. Painting french doors is a diy project anyone can accomplish in a weekend. Before painting take the time to prepare the doors by sanding washing and priming them.

Theres so many panes of glass to deal with.