How to paint MDF furniture at home?

Any person sooner or later has an irresistible desire to change something in the ordinary interior of his house or apartment. Often the usual rearrangement of furniture does not bring satisfaction and does not allow to achieve the desired effect. In such cases, a cardinal change in the appearance of interior items helps out by coloring them. Given the fact that most modern furnishings are made from inexpensive and generally available materials, today we will learn how to paint MDF furniture at home without the help of specialists.

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What can be useful for painting MDF furniture?

The fact is that changing the color and coloring of the entire interior item or its individual parts allows you to transform and completely change not only their appearance, but also the entire room as a whole, to give it some new touch, zest. The fact that painting MDF furniture does not require the contractor to possess any special skills or the presence of complex factory equipment is also encouraging. It is enough to prepare the necessary tools and buy suitable paints and varnishes, the main thing is that there is a clean room for painting.

What tools and materials are needed to work?

To radically alter the appearance of your favorite furniture, make sure that by the beginning of the work you have at hand all the necessary tools and materials in the required quantity.

To finish the furniture elements from MDF, you will need:

• Depending on your idea, one or more cans of paint of the right colors.
• Putty on wood, which is used for sealing joints and partial repairs.
• Capacity for dilution of paint.
• Masking tape of the required width.
• Flat brush.
• Roller with a long small pile.
• Gloves to protect hands.
• Respirator in order to protect the airways from toxic secretions of paint.
• Protective glasses.

Important! To create a protective layer, a primer may be required, but if you intend to paint the laminated surface, then it will not be useful to you. It is advisable to prepare a piece of sandpaper to clean the end surfaces and putty.

What paint is better to paint the cabinet?

Before you start working, you need to figure out how to paint MDF furniture at home. Moving furniture is not a difficult job, first you need to decide in advance what result you want to achieve. Depending on this, it is recommended to choose the appropriate coating. The paints and varnishes used for decorating furniture are conventionally divided into two types:

• Transparent.
• Opaque.

Important! Opaque compositions, due to the presence of special pigments in them, are used in order to create a protective layer and enhance the natural shade of wood.

Opaque substances include:

• Drying oil.
• Azure.
• Lacquer.

Such coatings are much more expensive than pigment paints, in particular because they are used in work with the most expensive furniture made of expensive wood. If you will be painting ordinary furniture made of MDF, then you can use the usual means based on latex, acrylic or polyurethane.

Important! If the furniture you want to update is old enough and has minor scratches, then it is better to paint it with compositions based on oil or water. Interior items covered with water-based paint look incredibly beautiful and last a very long time.

Universal options:

• Recently, alkyd mixtures are in great demand, due to the fact that they are easy to apply, they dry quickly and last longer than water and oil paints.
• Compounds with polyurethane are no less actively used, but it should be noted that they emit substances harmful to health during operation. Therefore, you need to constantly ventilate the room.

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How to prepare for painting the surface?

Studying general information, many are interested in whether it is possible to paint furniture from MDF without preliminary preparation. In principle, yes, but experts say that it is better not to neglect this moment. Furniture should be prepared for painting carefully, so that in the future there would be no problems with it due to mechanical stress and temperature changes.

The surface preparation process includes the following steps:

1. First, the products are processed with sandpaper to create a rough surface. If there are large scratches or cracks, they should be filled with putty on wood, then sanded again to eliminate bumps and drops. The main goal of this treatment is to eliminate the smoothness that adversely affects adhesion.
2. Then a primer is applied to the treated areas, which will provide them with additional adhesion and reduce the overall paint consumption. In addition, the primer allows you to create a barrier between the natural substances of wood and paint to prevent poor adhesion of the layers.

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Features of painting MDF surfaces

We have already considered several important stages of work. It remains only to understand how to repaint MDF furniture with your own hands. This process is incredibly simple, but, nevertheless, has certain features:

1. Paint surfaces should be in one direction only. There can be several layers of paint, preferably two.
2. The last layer is recommended to be applied along the painted canvas.
3. The second coat must not be applied until the first is completely dry.
4. All surfaces must be completely dry, without greasy stains and marks.
5. Try not to cover furniture with more than two coats of paint.

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Stock footage

So we learned the answer to the question of whether it is possible to repaint furniture from MDF in a different color. The main thing is to stock up with the necessary equipment and materials necessary for work, thoroughly prepare all surfaces, and during painting clearly adhere to the above recommendations.