Choose whether you need to prime the door before painting.
Best type of paint for wood doors.
When painting wood doors make sure all six sides of your door are covered to protect it from rotting cracking and expansion.
Prep work for painting you can paint your door in place or remove it from the hinges if you have a storm or glass door to protect your home and keep bugs and debris from floating into your home.
If you re painting an exterior outside door use exterior paint.
The type of primer you use also needs to match the type of paint you use latex or oil based.
For the best type of reflection on your doors you have to go with high gloss paint.
Inside doors can be painted with interior paint.
If your door is paneled start with the panels.
Outdoor is an easy decision.
For a door made of pine white fir or another wood species that doesn t bleed i e gives off tinted compounds in wood called tannins go with a water based exterior paint such as behr.
Higher gloss paint can also bring out the natural beauty of certain types of door materials.
Using semigloss exterior paint and a 2 inch angled sash brush with synthetic bristles paint around the edges of the.
If you want to paint an entry door the same color inside and outside you don t have to buy two different kinds of paint.
Just use an interior exterior combo.
If it was painted with oil based paint prime before using a latex based paint.