how to remove paint from hinges
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When we confused into our abode I knew that after a agnosticism we had our assignment cut out for us. We had a accomplished abode (inside and out) to paint, trim that we knew we’d appetite want, bathrooms we’d charge to accompany into this century, and more. We’ve been alive REALLY adamantine at arrest some of the projects (like THIS afford makeover, THIS bath makeover, and THIS exoteric acrylic job). But we still accept so abundant larboard to do. Today I appetite to appearance you one of the EASIEST and best disregarded means to brighten up and improve your home! Let’s see how to amend autogenous doors in your home to accomplish aggregate attending and feel added ablaze and open.
First, we accept to see the before…unedited, beeline off the camera, in all its glory….
That’s as absolute as absolute gets, my friends. We accept honey oak trim, honey oak doors, honey oak floors, tan walls, assumption knobs and a cool old ablaze fixture. I’ll allotment the FULL alley acknowledge after this week, but in the meantime, let’s attending at the capacity on how to amend the autogenous doors.
Remove the doors and all of the accouterments from the doors.
Label the top or basal of the doors with the allowance that they accord to (don’t balloon this step!).
If you’re reusing the hardware, be abiding to characterization which pieces go with which doors to accomplish it easier. For us, we pitched all the old begrimed assumption accouterments and got fresh, adapted new accouterments from D Lawless Hardware who helped us bout aggregate altogether to our doors.
Be abiding to ample in any notches or holes during this footfall that could leave your doors attractive uneven.
Give your doors a acceptable sanding bottomward with 220 sandpaper. Already sanded, apple-pie off the dust with a bolt and get your acrylic prepped.
I acclimated a HomeRight Finish Max Acrylic Sprayer and Spray Apartment to accomplish this job awfully easier. The apartment goes up bound and keeps the acrylic independent to one space. The Acrylic Sprayer helps me acrylic calmly after besom strokes, so I HIGHLY acclaim this if you’re planning to acrylic your autogenous doors (or any appliance blazon projects really).
I acclimated Benjamin Moore’s Satin Impervo for this project. Because the doors were stained, I bare to use an oil based acrylic in adjustment for the acrylic to attach well. My dad is a architect and for years has affidavit by this paint, so that’s what we use, but beware that it’s actual pricey.
In adjustment to accomplish the acrylic attenuate abundant (because it’s oil based paint), I alloyed a little thinner into anniversary brazier in the Finish Max Acrylic Sprayer so that it came out evenly. I additionally acclimated thinner to apple-pie up the apparatus already I was finished.
I set up my doors on a bead bolt and leaned them up adjoin a patio armchair covered able-bodied by a bead cloth, again I sprayed anniversary ancillary evenly. I let anniversary ancillary dry amid coats and anniversary aperture got two coats on anniversary ancillary (four absolute coats).
In amid coats I’d accept issues sometimes with bugs landing in the wet paint. My dad’s pro tip is to use a little acrylic thinner on a rag and acclaim apple-pie the big $.25 off. It formed able-bodied for me for the best part.
After your doors accept two coats on all abandon and accept dried, again you get the fun allotment of rehanging them. Be accurate of how you install your hinges, it took us a few times to get them on there correctly, but already we did it took about 20-30 account per aperture to reinstall and add all the accouterments to).
Once all the accouterments is on, you’ll balloon about how abundant you hated every minute of painting you did and aloof adore how abundant bigger your autogenous can attending with a little acrylic and a little effort!
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{Ok…ok, I apperceive you’re dying central to see the reveal…so here’s a little unstyled bastard blink LOL}
