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Painting Cabinets Advise
I bought paint-ready custom kitchen cabinets. They will be arriving
shortly and I'm wondering what the best way to paint them is. I want to achieve a smooth cream, white finish. I will need to paint only doors since the insides of these frameless cabinets will be finished. Should I spray them or use a brush. Also would oil based paint be the best? What kind of primer should I use? How are the "glaze" finishes achieved on cabinets? |
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Painting Cabinets Advise
mkownas wrote... I bought paint-ready custom kitchen cabinets. They will be arriving shortly and I'm wondering what the best way to paint them is. I want to achieve a smooth cream, white finish. I will need to paint only doors since the insides of these frameless cabinets will be finished. Should I spray them or use a brush. Also would oil based paint be the best? What kind of primer should I use? How are the "glaze" finishes achieved on cabinets? For spraying cab doors, lacquer works best. Use a flat white undercoater tinted with a little UTC to give the color you want, then top coat with clear. Waterbased lacquer will work fine. Nitro lacquer will have a yellowish tint to the topcoat, so make a start to finish sample to make sure you like the end result. If you're not already familiar, comfortable, and set up to spray lacquer, painting the doors with a brush would work fine, especially since you want to add a glaze. The brush strokes will give extra nooks and crannys for the glaze to settle into, and will actually enhance the antiqued look. I don't know if there is really any advantage to using oil paint or using modern latex paint; they can both give fine results, and it's probably best to use the one you're most familiar with. Use the primer that's made for the paint you choose. If you choose latex, you should raise the grain & lightly sand the doors first, or you won't get a very smooth finish. Oil-based paint won't raise the grain, and will give a glossier finish if that's what you're after. Glazes are available as either latex or oil based tint bases. Pick out a paint chip color you like, and the paint store folks can tint the glaze for you. The UTCs in the glaze tint tend to stain the underlying paint finish a bit, so if you want cream as the final color, you might try starting with a just barely off-white paint, and topping with a yellowish brown glaze. THe glaze will dry plenty dark enough to provide a nice accent, and should stain the paint to your cream color. Again, do a finish sample using exactly the same steps and procedures you intend to do on the doors, to make sure the final color is acceptable. In short, lacquer will give you the smoothest finish. Oil-based with a real good brush will give you a nice finish, but the glazing will exagerate the brush strokes. Flat latex, without raising the grain or using a primer, top coated with glazing, will give you the most antiqued look. -- Timothy Juvenal www.tjwoodworking.com |
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