Silver Spray Paint For Door Handles

Tips to remember when spray painting metal with metallic paint.

Silver spray paint for door handles.

I used a multi surface oil rubbed bronze spray paint with a hammered finish. Metallic paint on modern hardware. I couldn t stand looking at that fake brass finish one more minute. 5 krylon special purpose metallic in bright silver 1401 nice coverage but too flat and had a slight texture to it also.

Every paint i tried covered and adhered well. I usually use one of the two. We wanted our door handles to not stand out in the room and to blend in. Plus love the look and how it pulled the same finish as the bed into the rest of the room.

No depth to the finish. I ve been living with the spray painted hardware for 6 months with no issues or areas chipping or rubbing off. You can check out our door painting post for more details on that stuff like how we sanded the paint around the hardware that we removed so it was nice and smooth before painting. Painting one side of the knobs and then flipping them over makes it a bit easier to paint the hardware without having to handle them too much.

After the primer has thoroughly dried spray hardware with metallic paint. Here we have the sliding door hardware along with the doorknob deadbolt and the door knocker from the front door. Rustoleum satin nickel paint primer in one we didn t use any other paint but this one and applied 5 coats to get. Today i am showing you how to update dated brass hardware i am updating my doorknobs from brass to oil rubbed bronze.

The after picture of our satin nickel painted door handles. When painting cabinet knobs you can absolutely use this same process to help protect knobs and drawer pulls from everyday wear and tear. Once your hardware is completely dry grab your favorite spray paint most people use metallic finishes for hardware but you can get creative and use different colors to customize your piece i love oil rubbed bronze and gold. Spray hardware with metallic primer according to manufacturer s directions.

Now go ahead and paint the tops of your knobs. Once the gold metallic paint is dry you can flip the knobs over and stand them up. How to spray paint kitchen handles and drawer pulls on cabinets. This is a quick and easy update you ca.

But back to our pile o removed hardware. The best match was rust oleum forged hammered burnished amber. This is the spray paint we bought to update the door handles and it comes in all colors including rubbed bronze if that is what you want. A few years ago i had my husband take every door knob off of every door in our house so i could spray paint them.