Caulking Kitchen Cabinet Doors

The art of caulking cabinets.

Caulking kitchen cabinet doors.

Caulking pros cons. Prior to caulking it s very important to clean out dust or gunk grease in between seams and joints so primer and caulking will stick. Whether to caulk painted cabinet doors materials choices assembly methods and finishing techniques all affect whether a door looks seamless or not. But having just finished up a small re finishing job of about half a kitchen s worth of doors it went pretty smoothly.

Use latex painter s caulk inside of doors and windows or to quickly fill cracks and holes in drywall. Karen s company loves to paint kitchen cabinets. Seal a door frame in place and seal the subfloor at the bottom of a door frame. When painting cabinets especially white and whenever possible take extra steps to fill cracks and seams in the wood.

The idea is to make the caulking smooth consistently even in the roundness of its cove no gaps or ridges and also to blend in seamlessly with the grain on the panels. Cleans up with water. See sanding cabinets as well.