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Finishing Kitchen Cabinets: The smart choice

Finish kitchen cabinets worth the time it takes to do so. You start with a room that is dark and gloomy and end with a bright, clean kitchen. It only takes a few basic steps to refinish your kitchen cabinets.

Decide how you will Refinish your kitchen cabinets

The first thing you need to do is decide what to do with their cabinets. You can paint the cabinets or stain and varnish the cabinets. It all depends on which aspect you want your kitchen to have. You can paint after everything has finished putting. Will be limited, however, so far working with your wood stains. In other words, if you have a dark wood like mahogany, you will not be able to put a light pine finish on it. Simply not work.

Gather all materials that need

After determining how you are refinishing your kitchen, get all the materials you need. Get the paint or dye and finishing agent, of course. However, you also need: degreasing, sandpaper intermediate, tack cloth, primer (if painting) and good quality brushes. This is not a job that you want to use rollers or sponges.

Now, you take the cabinets below. If you are just renewing refinishing the fronts of kitchen cabinet, take down. This is easily done by unscrewing a few screws and take off the hinges. Most drawer pulls are made screw in too. Not even have to empty the closets or drawers if you do well and you have standard hardware.

Wipe cabinets

Enjoy cabinet or cabinet fronts in a room or garage where you can finish. Make sure the room is one where the cabinets will be capable of drying without have too much dust adhering to the surface. Your next job will be to clean the cabinets. If you are like most kitchen cabinets, which are covered with grease and dirt. All that has to go before it can start refinishing your kitchen cabinets. Use a good degreaser and scrub hard.

If you is refinishing a kitchen cabinet that has been painted or varnished before, you will be removing this substance and, in most cases. You can use oil paint over latex, but if you use latex paint over oil, it will peel. Therefore, if the original paint was oil and to use latex you have to completely eliminate that goal. Consult your paint supplier what kind of chemical to use to remove the old finish is in his cabinet. Enjoy along a front drawer of the sample paint dealer to inspect.

Sand first, then stain or paint, then the sand again

Then you have to sand the cabinets to soften them. Use sandpaper and medium grade sand thoroughly and evenly. Note note that if you are finishing your kitchen and start to sand too soon, you will be grinding grease and dirt right on the surfaces of your cabinets. When you sand, you want a clean, no problems to work.

When the surface is ready for stain or paint can be applied with care. If the stain, wait the recommended time before putting in a varnish or polyurethane finish. If the paint, let dry for several days. In any case, put in the paint or varnish in several thin coats and sand between coats. When finished, the final sanding with fine sandpaper. The final step to refinishing kitchen cabinets is to install them and reinstall the hardware. Once done, you will have an entirely new look.

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