Coat the recessed areas first and then the faces of the panels.
Painting pine panel doors.
Then go back with your roller and roll the flat faces around the detail.
Starting with the first section paint the detailed parts of the top two panels with your 2 tapered paint brush.
Then roll on a coat of bin or kilz available at home centers for about 8 per quart.
Consider a paint additive to slow down drying and improve leveling.
For a standard 6 panel door this is the order to go in.
Rather than simply painting the door from top to the bottom you can get the best paint job by painting paneled doors in a certain order.
But it only works when the undertones are right.
Begin by applying paint to the inside of the top panels.
Choose a green with an undertone like your paneling usually warm yellow and you can ramp up all that outdoor freshness.
The louver primed doors are constructed with a solid pine core that provides a much quieter environment than hollow core doors.
Painting the rest of the door the next step is to basically paint the rest of the door.
Start by painting the edges of the door with either the brush or roller.
Wipe off the dust with a brush.
You have to lay down the paint and smooth it out before it becomes too sticky to work with or so stiff that brush marks won t level out and disappear.
Painting a door is a race against time.
Using a high density mini foam paint roller start by painting the middle section with the grain of the wood not against it up and down in a vertical fashion and then paint the horizontal sections of the door from left to right.
Pine then what you are really going to need to do to get the best finish is to apply one coat of primer one coat of undercoat or indeed one coat of a combined primer and undercoat and then your top coat.
Wipe it down with a damp rag just before painting.
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When painting a panel door a paint brush may be more effective than a roller.
Be sure to roll in line with the wood grain pattern.
But interior doors are often paneled and should be painted in the following order.
Smooth out the paint working with the grain.
The basic technique for painting a flat door is long smooth brush strokes or vertical roller strokes.
Oh wait those are the colors of a pine tree green and brown.
If your doors are brand new and unpainted and constructed of timber e g.
Within each section there are two detailed recessed panels and 7 flat faces.
Our unique integral panel design will not shrink or split and there is no possibility of stile and rail separation.