Quick & Easy Tips For Painting A Door

 I have shared posts about painting our command center door and also the insets of other doors around our home. Since then I have received emails about what I think the best and quickest way to paint a door is. 

I decided to snap a few pics with my phone while I was working on our master bath doors so I could share a few tips to make painting your doors easier. This may not be how others would do it but this is how I do ours and how I find it to work best for me. 

 Your paint brush size will depend on your door size and door detail. For our bathroom doors I decided to use a 1 1/2 inch angled brush. Some people may choose to go larger but I have a reason why I prefer to use the 1 1/2 inch brush. As for paint I normally go with a semi gloss like our baseboards but this time around I used Eggshell. Remember the two gallons of Sherwin Williams #6204 Sea Salt I previously was going to paint our master bath walls with? Well this where they come into play as well as another area in our master bath but I will save that for another post!;) Once I started painting, the Eggshell finish was not really any different from the door casing so it all worked out perfectly as far as sheen. 

Our doors have insets and the first thing I do is paint around the insets. I use long brush strokes as to oppose short ones to decrease brush marks.

Our doors have a wood grain design so it is highly important to keep the wood grain direction in mind when painting them to ensure a more professional finish.

After painting the outer portions of the insets I follow the wood grain design and paint the inside of the insets again using long brush strokes.

Next up I paint the wood grain that goes from left to right using long brush strokes so to make the brush marks are next to non existent.

Then I move on to the wood grain that goes from top to bottom using the longest brush stroke I can. 

Once the front of the door is completed I move on to the sides of the door. This is where the 1 1/2 brush really comes in handy. I find that by using that size brush I do not have to tape anything off. The angel allows me to paint around all hardware with ease. A larger brush would cause me to get paint all over the hardware which is no big deal because you can always just wipe it off with a paper towel and water but I just prefer to skip that step and well I am allergic to taping!;) 

Once you are completed with painting the sides of the doors makes sure you do not see any drip marks. If you do just work them in before they dry and then move on to the back of the door if you wish. I did paint both sides of our master bath doors. After about 30 minutes to an hour depending on the weather I do a second coat to complete the doors and call it a day. The first coat with this method takes about 15 minutes. 

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