How to Inexpensively Redo Your Kitchen Cabinets

If you've ever watched a home decorating show, you know that the kitchen is one of the most important rooms in your home. If you've ever watched a show focused on helping people sell their homes, you know that the kitchen is a big selling point when it's on the market. Counter tops, appliances, and cabinets are what make a kitchen look great or terrible. Kitchen cabinets are one of the easiest things to fix in a kitchen. Having them professionally redone or changing them entirely can be quite expensive, but luckily, you don't have to do that to make them look great. You can redo your kitchen cabinets all by yourself without spending a lot of money, here's how:

Materials
-screwdriver
-marker
-paint
-power sander
-sandpaper
-paintbrush

Instructions
1. The first thing you have to do when you are redoing your kitchen cabinets is to figure out what you want. Figure out what color you want and what would look good in your kitchen. Take into consideration how many cabinets there are and the style of the rest of your kitchen. If you have drawers, you'll have to redo do as well so that they match your kitchen cabinets

2. Take all the cabinets down. As you are taking them down make sure you mark them somehow so you will know where to they go when you want to put them back up. Numbering them is the easiest way to make sure you can put them back where they belong once you've repainted them.

3. Once all your cabinets have been taken down, it's time to sand them. You have to sand them so that when you paint them, the paint will stick to the cabinets and look great. You don't have to sand until all the paint is off of your kitchen cabinets, just until you notice that they are not smooth and shiny anymore.

4. The next step to redoing your kitchen cabinets is to paint them. For best results, use a primer. You'll also have to paint the area around your kitchen cabinets to make sure that everything looks well put together and uniform. If you have a lot of cabinets, you probably won't have to wait until you can start painting with the color you have chosen for your kitchen cabinets, but do make sure that the primer is completely dry before you start on another coat. You will most likely have to paint two coats of the color you have chosen onto your kitchen cabinets to make sure that there are no visible streaks or paintbrush strokes.

5. Once your kitchen cabinets have all been painted, you can add some extra things to make them look even better. Knobs are a great way to draw attention to your new kitchen cabinets, and you can find cheap ones at second hand stores and even home improvement stores. Another easy way to add detail to your kitchen cabinets is to use sandpaper to sand the edges of the cabinets. Sanding them removes some of the paint and gives the cabinets an antique look.