Tell me how to paint my new MDF wardrobe doors and not make a mess of them

[Stillsprucing]

Local carpenter has made me a great fitted wardrobe, shaker style, at a very reasonable price. Now need to paint the doors.

He suggests primer followed by furniture paint using a roller. Has anyone painted anything similar and can recommend products and give some tips to a novice painter?

I have MDF wardrobe doors! I painted mine with a primer using a sponge roller designed for gloss paint. I then did several coats of satin paint with a sponge gloss roller. They've been painted about 8 years now, still look smart. No lumps or chips or paint runs etc. They came out really well.

Just to add, I used satinwood paint not special furniture paint.

I always use a Zinsser primer first on a roller for the largest parts and brush for the edges. I prefer an eggshell paint but satinwood or gloss also works if you prefer more of a sheen. Like the pp, I never use special furniture paint.

Interesting....

Make sure you fill in any holes & cover any embedded nail heads first!

WhistPie carpenter has actually done that for me

I'm currently doing my new MDF cabinets. I've done a cot of sealer, a coat of primer, I'm on a second coat of primer (which has been tinted the same colour as my top coat, to give a better finish!) and I'll do two top coats of an eggshell finish paint. So far I've done sand, seal, sand, prime, sand, second coat of primer. I'll do another gentle sand before the painting, possibly a final sand before the final coat.

It's an arse but for the price of the work I want it to be as perfect as I can get it!

Cool. DH decided that paint would fill the holes. It didn't.

😂

I've just painted a set of shelves using a roller and I wouldn't recommend it. Despite my most careful application, I've ended up with a very subtly coarse surface -think like fine sandpaper. It looked smart enough but I decided to sand it & brush paint. Much finer finnish now.

thefatpotato · Yesterday 18:43

I'm currently doing my new MDF cabinets. I've done a cot of sealer, a coat of primer, I'm on a second coat of primer (which has been tinted the same colour as my top coat, to give a better finish!) and I'll do two top coats of an eggshell finish paint. So far I've done sand, seal, sand, prime, sand, second coat of primer. I'll do another gentle sand before the painting, possibly a final sand before the final coat.

It's an arse but for the price of the work I want it to be as perfect as I can get it!

That's sounds like such a lot effort but I'm sure will achieve a wonderful result. Just not sure if I'm committed enough to do the same.

splatfrog What sort of roller did you use?

I have just been doing some satinwood painting with a microfibre roller. Afterwards I read I should have given it a rinse first to remove any fluff! I will be doing that next time.
I have also seen recommendations for the Fussy Bloke rollers on a Farrow and Ball page and they are on Amazon.

@Stillsprucing how does it look?

We used Fussy Bloke rollers on our wardrobes as recommended by our carpenter. We used water based eggshell paint, they look superb.