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Remove Cup Hooks and Touch Up (Optional)

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How To Paint Cabinet Doors. Painting kitchen cabinets EASY

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What happens here

Once the paint has fully cured according to the product's instructions, carefully remove the cabinet pieces from the hangers and unscrew the cup hooks. For cabinet pieces where the holes left by the hooks might be visible (e.g., the top edge of an upper cabinet door), you can choose to fill them. Use a small amount of spackle or wood filler to fill the holes, sand smooth once dry, and then use a small artist's brush to touch up the filled areas with the matching lacquer or paint. For areas that will never be seen, such as the wall-facing edge of a shelf or the bottom of a lower cabinet door, filling and touching up the holes is often unnecessary.

Goal: After the paint has cured, remove the cup hooks from the cabinet pieces. If desired and if visible, fill and touch up the small holes left by the hooks.

Tools and materials

  • Sandpaper (fine-grit)
  • Small Artist's Brush
  • Matching Paint/Lacquer
  • Spackle or Wood Filler

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actually split your door, split the wood. So these cup hooks, for instance, this door is down low, really low towards the floor. It came off of a vanity. And when you unscrew these things, these holes on the bottom, nobody could actually ever see these things. So now, if you had an upper door, a higher door, like a bigger cabinet door, you could probably see the bottom of it. So you wouldn't want to do your holes in the bottom. You'd want to do it in the top. Now, I have asked as people ask me, do you actually go back and fill them and touch them up? And yeah, we have a on on occasion gone back filled them. All we do is just put some spackle in them and touch them up. And it's simple to touch up. But you really don't have to do that because you can actually never see it on these door on the majority of your doors. But if you can see those holes, they're actually really easy just to put a little piece of spackle on them and then take a little brush with your lacquer and touch them up. So, here's this door. Once I

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