How To Touch Up White Cabinets

Recreating the white stain and blending it in with the rest of the door.

How to touch up white cabinets. You might try that but I also think that you need to work at becoming more skillful and efficient at doing your touch up work. Paint is chipping easily. For wood cabinets with marks divots or scratches a cabinet touch-up stick or marker can blend the imperfection into the rest of the wood or paint.

Allow to dry 1-2 minutes. Give the cabinets a good cleaning using a spray bottle filled with water and dawn dish soap or KrudKutter prepaint cleaner. We recommend a semi-gloss 35-40 sheen.

Paint Touch-Up for Cabinet Chips You MUST clean the cabinet thoroughly and remove all traces of dust and dirt before beginning. Wipe off the sanding dust. Use a syringe to suck up wood glue or buy a pre-filled glue syringe at a hardware store and squirt it into the crack.

Use a small artists brush. To start he shook it very well and applied it in long thin strokes. I like to use white satin Breakthrough for my white finish cabs.

Try getting a good airbrush for touch ups in the field I recommend an Iwata. One of their attempts to fix resulted in a botched job and now the cabinets finish has bubbled. Then tackle the hardest part of touching up.

Prepare your cabinets by removing any drawer pulls or cabinet knobs in the area that needs to be touched up. Try using Citristrip which is a safe non-toxic paint removerThen re-white wash them. He wiped the cabinets down with a little bit of vinegar and water to make sure they were free of dirt dust and debris.