The Best Primer for Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets — Shopping

Painting your kitchen cabinets is easy — it's all the prep that goes into it that's hard. Removing the doors (and getting everything labeled so you can put them back up!), taping off your edges, covering the floors, cleaning the wood, filling in the random scratches … by the time you're ready to start painting, you've done hours of work. So much work that you may be tempted to skip the primer and go straight to the paint — but definitely don't do that!

Professional painters Chris and Lexi Dowding, of SwatchOut in Michigan, say that primer is key. You need it to create a full barrier between the previous surface and your new one, so that the old color doesn't show or seep through. Primer also provides a surface that your new paint can stick to, so it stays right where you've put it for years to come.

Which primer should you use, though?

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