Cabinets
As a professional interior decorator, I asked often, you get big home improvement questions. Asked not long ago someone I know me for advice on painting your kitchen cabinets. I know a lot of DIY (do-it-yourself) websites, and many television programs to promote painting kitchen cabinets. My view is slightly different. I want to feel some unpopular truths about painting your kitchen cabinets.
1. Painting kitchen cabinetsis not a weekend project:
The work requires properly on the surface of the door fronts, and the areas that need to remove hardware prep, wash several times, sanding all surfaces, wipe all the sanding dust can carry some Time.now to tape add the fields in the kitchen, you do not want to paint on, maintain and delete items in the boxes, remove all the door fronts. You must theDoor fronts on a level spot surface.The next step ispriming all surfaces and lettingit dry. Now you can actually start painting you butbe sure that several thin layers of paint to make and paint completely dry between layers for the best placement. It's just a weekend 2 projects, if not 5 to 6 days the job done right and not make it look like an amateur. When all the cabinets are painted, let dry and harden in 2 weeks - yes, weeks - before you reassemble and use your kitchen.
2nd Paint the cabinets is a "patch" - no long-term funds
Even if it is performed correctly and with care, products for the home handyman, home is simply not enough. When painting thecabinets plan for 5 years of it before it needs a touch up or more. Yes, for a quick fix or if you bring to the house on the market - Painting cabinets is a solution. If you're planning to stay at home for the foreseeable future - is planning to paint it again. Painted Kitchen not cabinetsare long-term.
3rd Painted cabinet is not for you, if you have a "clean freak" is
If you wipe clean your cupboards, think again. You have to deal with painted cabinets are very good care of. Cleaners can weaken the color of the cabinets, and reduce the actual. Cleaning them often wear away the paint and they will look even worse than before. You can not just ordinary cleaners on painted surfaces. Most of the time people paint the cabinets several variations of white or cream. Over time, showing colors, dirt, grease and stains very easily with lacquer.
4th Kitchens are the most common piece of furniture in the house.
Kitchens get the most traffic in the whole house (with bathrooms). Open three or more times per day, it was found, splashes, vapors from the surface of the cabinets. Imagine if you had painted a piece of furniture - a chair, much loved it so much and in circumstances such as a kitchen has been used for years - and it would hold? no. It will be worn, marked and chipped before you know it. If the kitchen is often (you know to take out phone numbers used by heart) when painting cabinets can be there for you.
5th Professional directly from the factory cabinets have more than a DIY job
The plant has the tools, machines and dryers that bake the paint. They do not. They just do not get the durability of a home project. If you like the painted look, the cabinet is made that is already painted so much better. Save $ 100you would have used to paint and use it to save for a real solution. Our society always wants a quick solution. Rapid change is not always the best solution in the long term.
To summarize: Yes, for better or for short (less than 5 years) Painting cabinets works wonderfully. No long-term solution inmy professional opinion ... How has this person (the clean freak, a family of five, made) to-a-person weekend, the Council would listen to me? No - they do not. I'll talk to them again sooner than you think.
