Congratulations Shelayne on completing such a daunting task! We too have an airless spray painter (Graco, Home Depot, hooked up to our air compressor) that my husband loves to use. We have used it outdoors, in a less than surgical environment, in Arizona where there is a lot of dust and sand, and the results were still lovely. I think my husband's technique is that he lightly sprays on a coat, not necessarily complete coverage, just a light spray, and then repeats with another 2-3 coats in the same fashion, allowing the surfaces to dry between coats. With our early spray paint projects, we did not sand between the coats, but I think with our kitchen doors, I will lightly sand between coats. I also want to offer an endorsement for Advantage Cabinet Door Co. We used Advantage Cabinet Doors a few years ago when we first started - and have yet to finish - our kitchen project. (We will be ordering more doors sometime this summer.) I believe Darryl was the gentleman I dealt with. I went with Advantage because I could choose all design aspects of the doors - outside/inside edge profiles, raised panel, etc. - to match exactly some existing doors that we had. Their prices were very competitive. Our Advantage doors are paint grade poplar, which is fine for us (myself and DH). If we had children at home, I would have asked for a recommendation for a harder paint grade material. Also, if you want your doors completed with paint/stain, Advantage offers that service using Sherwin Williams paints/stains. Also, I ordered from Advantage some MDF end panels with the raised panel feature like the doors, but with straight edges on the outside perimeter. These were also reasonably priced. What I liked especially about the MDF panels (aside from price) was that the raised panel corners were true square, right angle corners, rather than "rounded" type corners that I have seen on MDF doors from other vendors. Thanks Shelayne for sharing your experience, and good luck with the rest of your project. Rita Longtime lurker Here is a link that might be useful: Advantage Cabinet Doors

I read through a few of these comments and agree and disagrees with many of the comments. I have an open mind and ask many questions before starting a project. I'm the skilled handy man for friends and family LOL, only because I'm not scared to tack any project. I recommend you call your local paint supplier ( Sherwin Williams, PPG Paints, Kelly More, or Dunn Edwards) and ask for a sales reps. Phone number and ask what products they recommend why they recommend them and how they compare against the competition and what their issues they've had are. If they're willing to stand behind the product with a money back guarantee is a big plus. After asking all these questions and talking to multiple cells reps with the same company as well as store reps I found that the best possible pain would be PPG's breakthrough paint. I took a sample that I got from Home Depot and have them match it up it was an ivory color. I use the red Scotch-Brite pad the scuff up and prep the cabinets then I painted with the breakthrough and did some brushing and rolling as well as using a Graco airless paint sprayer. If you use a Graco airless sprayer I recommend buying a 10 foot hose so you don't have to use as much paint. Or a small handheld Graco sprayer with a reversible fine finish spray tip. Back to paint, besides them making any custom color for you in Breakthrough it dries in 20 min. The Sales Rep was showing me 2 footballs he had painted with this product the first was a nerve the second was a regular pigskin rubber type of football we squeeze these footballs and me and my son played catch with them and I couldn't believe how durable the finish is. When I brush and roll with this product self levels. It is a little costly about twice the price of some of the higher end paints that I've purchased, but for what it can do and it's time-saving I'm sold. When a sales rep will tell the homeowner as I presented myself that they will stand behind the product and give us a full refund, how could I not try the product. There were some stipulations to this deal as sending him pictures of what I was doing and sending pictures while I was applying the product which was not an issue for him offer me a money back guarantee. I figured if the product at work what I did apply would end up being a primer coat that would need some sanding. After the two doors and drawer fronts were painted I was so excited with its appearance and drive time that I didn't hesitate to apply the rest of the paint. Now I'm the professional painter LOL The key to DIY is to ask many questions to many different people and when someone stands behind their product makes it a go to product. With the dry time I can tell you in the past year I've painted at least 150 doors and windowsills.

I'm doing the same thing to my kitchen. 1995 oak cabinets. One single wall cabinet fell off the wall a few years ago. Bought a new one from the same company, but they no longer had the exact style or stain. No matter what I did, I couldn't get them to match, even staining all the uppers. So, I sanded the uppers, painted them antique white, took the doors off and bought a Graco airless sprayer and sprayed them outside on a nice no breeze day. Took 2 cabinets / 4 doors and replaced with frame only and inserted a nice wavy type glass. The bottoms I have to replace anyway because 3 of the 9 are bad. So, going to probably buy from Conestoga Cabinets possibly Walnut and stain and finish them myself since I like to finish furniture anyway. Here are the top cabinets with the new glass. http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/1154/medium/2013-12-08-001W.jpg

Just my 2 cents Personally, I have three sprayers. A cheap(ish) Graco airless sprayer, a Titan air assisted airless sprayer, and a Fujispray HVLP. ---- Paint sprayers are all about atomization of the paint. Airless sprayers basically use high pressure to bounce the paint off the surface. Air assisted and HVLP both use air to help atomize the paint. ---- If you are putting a lot of paint on the wall then an airless sprayer is pretty incredible. We use the cheap(ish) Graco to paint rental units fast. For wood projects I use either the air assisted airless or the HVLP. I get a better finish with the HVLP, it is a lot more user friendly and they are much cheaper to get into. However, you are not going to be spraying latex paint with an HVLP gun. I have a 5 stage motor in mine and I still can't spray a thick latex paint. So that means thinning the paint quite a bit and spraying more coats. The best answer for what you are wanting is an air assisted airless that you can turn off the pump and turn it into a true airless (Graco 595) but something like that will cost you a very pretty penny. --- If you are going to go with an airless because it can paint everything the tip (and maybe the mix) is imperative. Use the product sheets to find the recommended tip and then try it for a bit. Use a resource like youtube to make sure you understand what your spray pattern should look like before you start spraying wood (paint a lot of cardboard). If your putting too much paint on the edges things are going to go south. If you are going to go with an HVLP because you can't mess it up, get used to 20%-30% dilutions for latex paint and lots of refills. If you are going to go with an air assisted airless get used to 10%-20% dilutions for latex paint but few refills (or spend a ton of money). Best of luck