Painting kitchen cabinets
Started by nancizim
about 9 years ago
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Member since: May 2010
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After 14 years, I'd love a new look and am thinking of painting my cherry kitchen cabinets which are still in good condition and still stylish. I know they would need to have a great job done and am interested if anyone has had theirs painted or knows of an excellent paint recommendation..
Why would you paint cherry wood/veneer cabinets? There are options available from Minwax with tinted Poly which will refresh the cabinets. Most painters will be able to do it. Go to Janovic. If the cabinets are wood veneer, they just need to sand very gently to even out the scratches and apply tinted poly.
https://www.minwax.com/wood-products/one-step-stain-and-finishes/minwax-polyshades
or just use Bona polish to refresh.
nancizim,
You should find a very good millshop and have them spray them
You paint or refinish cabinets because you want something fresh and fashionable; or because the whole building has the same cabinets as you and you want your apartment to be unique; or because your overall decor suggests something else would look much better--in our case, we were deliberately aging and warming up a cold modern apartment; or because you flat-out hate the cabs but bought the apartment anyway because, after all, this is Brooklyn, what else can you do?
Our apartment came with custom built, solid maple cabinets in excellent condition and we did not want to rip them out. So we had only our cabinet and drawer doors removed, stained dark (not painted) at the wood shop, then sealed, and glass knob hardware installed. The cabinet boxes remained the original color. This created a two-tone effect effectively taking the modern edge off the kitchen and helped move it to warm industrial decor.
This is economical too. Great price, excellent work was done for us by:
Philip Green
Cityshades Painting and Woodworking
62-12 64th Street, Middle Village, NY, United States
Telephone: +1.9175445265
E-mail: cityshadeswoodworking@gmail.com
Have you thought about having new doors made for the existing boxes?