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help_ I bought a house with PINK counter tops
On 14 Dec 2003 16:35:19 -0800, (Apkesh) wrote:
Refacing the cabinets with a different color laminate sounds like an
option, but it looks like an expensive and tedious job. Any ways to
treat it to look a bit darker?
Paint them. Scuff sand the laminate (about 240 grit), then apply a
coat of melamine primer. After that you can paint them any colour you
like.
I've used two melamine primers. One (from International Paints) worked
well, but was hard work to use - lots of trouble with runs. The other
(ESP brand) looks like water and is _much_ easier. If you're painting
doors like this, take them off and paint them horizontally.
Replacing worktops is generally cheap, but a fair bit of labour - much
depends on your layout. The ubiquitous round-edged paper-laminate fake
stone particleboard worktops are at give-away prices. Biggest problem
is forming corner joints, which need either an ugly plastic filler
strip (very cheap and quick though) or hiring an expensive jig, a big
router and a big cutter to form the joint. Don't try to just saw a
mitre in them - gives a lousy finish.
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