Can You Spray Paint Wood Doors

From the door and maintain a consistent angle while spraying.

Can you spray paint wood doors.

I usually take doors off stand vertically in a zigzag pattern screw a 2x2 or 2x4 or what ever scrap piece s across top of all doors to stabilize. I needed to start with spray painting the trim before i removed the door. Set the doors on a turntable when spray painting. Whereas painting with a brush can result in drips and brush marks spray paint can give you a near perfect look.

The absolute best way to paint a door is with real paint through a real paint sprayer but i know this is hard for a diy er to do. I opted to remove the door just easier to paint that way and opted to spray paint since my door has a lot of raised panels to paint around. Keep the nozzle 10 to 12 in. Once the doors were dry it was time to add the new hinges and knobs and rehang the doors.

Don t backroll the primer. Spraying the doors only required pockets of 10 15 minutes at a time and freed up a lot of time to do other things. I worry about tops and bottoms on exterior doors. I d love to update it with fresh paint and new hardware but i ve heard that you can t get good results painting over stain.

My childhood dresser is beautiful but the wood stain looks faded. Highly recommend going this route if you have a bunch of doors to paint. This allows you access to all sides. The hardest part was taping and sealing off the trim around the door.

The painting technique is very similar to the same way i ve always used a can of spray paint. Then you can stand in one spot and rotate the door to paint each side. Plus the paint in a can of spray paint is thinned down so that it will spray nicely through the small nozzle so in the end it may not be as durable as a full strength paint and it may not cover well.