Painting French Doors Tips

Ok not really but we might as well have.

Painting french doors tips.

Carefully paint a door with primer and wait for it to dry. There s actually a product you can buy called liquid mask that you paint on over the glass on your french door or on windows if you have windows to paint. You then paint your door just like i did and remove the liquid mask by tracing around your panes of glass with a utility knife. The trick is to leave the door open while painting.

Mini foam paint rollers are the perfect size for french doors. Paint the doors 1 side at a. How to paint french doors 1. Next tape off any doorknobs hinges or hardware with painter s tape or remove them.

Should you paint a door with a brush or a roller. It sticks to pretty much everything and any paint will stick to it. That said i didn t use primer on this particular door. Since the closet was functional without the doors i didn t even try to paint on days there was even a 10 chance of rain.

Pour some paint into a. To get the best results you should prime your french doors before painting them. Every time i pulled the doors outside to paint it started raining. Applying the paint 1.

You apply two coats and the liquid mask dries into a clear stretchy plastic. I never remove doors for painting. Use an angled brush to paint difficult spots. Once your deglosser has done its job use a foam roller to.

You can use a paint guard at the bottom to avoid getting paint on the floor. Paint as precisely as you can in long strokes that follow the direction of the wood. It depends on the the door. We actually started pulling the doors out instead of turning the sprinklers on for the grass.

Painting the french door. Dip the brush into the paint then use it to reach spots a paint roller. You ll never go wrong starting with a primer. Use up and down motions for the vertical pieces and back and forth motions for the horizontal.

If your door is painted with oil based paint and you re painting over it with latex you ll have to sand and prime.