ᐅ Painting Mertod Kitchen Cabinets – What is the Best Method?

Hello,

we have a very nice, almost like-new Metod front kitchen that we would like to keep for a while longer. A few years ago, we set up a separate kitchen island with two wall cabinets above it, used as a display cabinet. These also have Metod fronts.

Our Metod fronts are white (silk matte), with rounded corners and a light gray trim applied at the top and bottom.

The white color of the kitchen is still as bright as on the first day, and the kitchen is in excellent condition—except for the display cabinet. It has narrow Metod side trims on the right and left, and only these have yellowed, which makes them look different from the clean and bright white of the other cabinets.

My question:
Is it possible to paint these side Metod trims using a paint roller? And if so, what type of paint would be best? Is any surface preparation needed, and if yes, with what?

I have heard that this can be tricky because the coating might peel off.

Has anyone had experience with this and can provide reliable advice? I am looking for input based on personal experience, not guesses or assumptions.

Thank you very much for your help.
I’m glad to have found this forum, as we have been satisfied Ikea customers for many decades.

Best regards,
Seoul

Hello,
that was back then the cheapest front and probably the only one that still looks good after 20 years. However, at an age of at least 18 years, I wouldn’t call it like new anymore.
Unfortunately, nothing comparable has been released since then.

Consider whether you want to replace the glass cabinet doors with RUBRIK while it is still possible. The METOD front is melamine-coated with a mini pearl texture. I rather doubt you will find anyone with experience in painting this.

Thank you,

I have since found out that there is indeed high-quality paint specifically developed for kitchen cabinet surfaces.

I will visit Hornbach to inquire.

And yes, I specifically mean almost like new, because it still looks that way after all these years. In fact, it looks as if we just recently installed it, even though we use it regularly. I have rarely seen anything more durable and robust. Whether it was the *cheapest* option back then, I can’t say anymore, but we paid around 3000 DM (without appliances).

Anyway, it was by far our favorite choice at the time, and that was the only thing that really mattered then and still does now. And it has clearly proven to be worth it. Except for the mentioned glass display upper cabinet.

Edit:
We don’t particularly like these RUBRIK fronts.

Edit-2:
The link was very helpful as it mentions that it apparently works very well. Great. My next Hornbach project

But we’ll manage again.

Regards

Share how it turned out.

I don’t want to give up my METOD fronts either and plan to use them for another 20 years.

I sense a bit of irony in that, but it doesn’t matter.
We definitely won’t keep them for 20 more years, but probably another 2-3 years at most.

We will likely replace the doors with glass loose Metod fronts, of which we still have enough original sealed packages. Back when the kitchen was discontinued, we bought lots of these fronts for doors and all drawers at good prices and stocked up. Each one was individually packaged and shrink-wrapped. Unfortunately, no glass cabinet fronts.

Well, we’ll see....

No, that was completely sincere. I’m attached to my things, take good care of them, and really dislike the throwaway mentality.