Posted: 12/18/2008 6:45:22 AM EDT
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The cabinets in my kitchen just don't look very good. My wife really wants to change them. I agree that a change from the their current brown stain to a white paint would look better and open the room up more. Does anyone have any advice or pictures of a project they did? I looked through this forum, but I didn't find anything.
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| My cabinets were old brown nasty things as well. I went to Home Depot and bought some special white cabinet paint they sell in small cans, already mixed up. Cleaned carefully, roughed them up with sandpaper and cleaned again. I used a foam roller that they suggested, gave them 2 coats, let dry and put some new knobs on, they look really nice. Did this about 2 years ago and they still look very good. |
| Scuff up the cabinets, use a good primer (Ben Moore Alkyd Enamel Underbody or Fresh Start), and a good paint (Ben Moore Satin Impervo - latex based). You'll want to use a latex based paint if you decide on going with a white/off-white due to the yellowing nature of an oil-based paint. It's especially noticeable with cabinets due to the lighting on the outside and the darkness on the inside of the cabinets. |
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You'll need to clean with a degreaser first. It doesn't matter if they "look" clean. There is a layer of grease in a kitchen that gets all over everything. Worse if you have a gas stove, but it's there no matter what. This will keep the paint from sticking.
So you clean the cabinets first (only the sections you think you can paint that day) then you use a deglosser to make the present finish sticky) (Whoever said take a drawer to Porter or Sherwin Williams is right. They can tell you what's on there now if you don't have the solvents at home to determine this yourself). Then prime, then paint. Once you have deglossed, you have to apply a finish (primer) within a certain amount of time or the original finish gets hard again. So it's a "prep a little, finish it, prep a little more, finish it" kind of job. The guys here at Porter talked me through the entire process. I used to paint apartments for a living, but this was a different animal––painting kitchen cabinets is a pita, and you only want to do it once and you want the paint to stick the first time and be durable. Not as simple as painting a wall. The degreasing is key. The failures I've seen were the ones where the people blew off the degreasing. |
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