How to Paint a French Door
The door leading from our kitchen out to our deck has seen better days. On the outside it has some slight denting, and the weather strip at the bottom of the door is in need of repair. It was dirty, and there was some type of a sticky, gunky buildup around the panes of the windows. I think that long ago, someone tried to seal around the frames with something (not caulk).
The paint I used was Rust-Oleum white satin door paint. The diagram below shows which sections of the door should be painted in which direction. Also, I recommend either removing the doorknob, or taping around it with painter's tape.
I chose not to tape off the windows. Trust me when I tell you it takes far longer to tape off all of these little squares than it does to scrape them with a razor blade after the paint is dry. See the full post on my blog to see the method I used for scraping the paint off of the windows.
This is a close up of the end result. Nice sharp edges.
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Good to know about not needing to tape. That would keep me from doing the project all-together! It looks great.
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