Painting Solid Oak Kitchen Cabinets
The most important part of painting your walls is to choose the right color one that will complement your oak cabinets.
Painting solid oak kitchen cabinets. Anyways the paint that most painters would agree on is BM Advanced. Must cleansandprimesandsecond prime if you want to get rid of oak looksandpaintsandpaint againDo not over work those alkyd paintslay it onpaint top to bottomPaint horizontal so the paint can levelWait 3 days between repaintingTakes 30 days to cure hard. Use a primer or basecoat before the top coat of paint.
Cool colors such as gray blue or purple will actually make the orange. Heres how we prepared ours and tips for prepping your cabinets for paint When we moved into our 1989 house nothing dated it more than the oak cabinets in the kitchen and the bone tile countertops. Painting kitchen cabinets is HUGELY satisfying.
When we talk about glazing oak cabinets it means that there will at least two-step must be done. Use a smooth foam roller to paint your cabinet doors drawer fronts and cabinet boxes. Grain or pore filling is an option but will be very time consuming and expensive and some painters have never heard of it.
The process for preparing solid oak cabinets for painting is just as important as the process for actually painting them. Painted oak cabinets will still show the woodgrain unlike Birch or Maple but it will still freshen up the look. The first is painting or staining and the second is the glazing process itself.
The kitchen below had GREAT bones. BACKSPLASH Avoid bright white tile against most wood tones. As an example you can see the picture of oak cabinets in a rather small kitchen above.
To smooth the heavy oak wood grain use a putty knife to apply a very thin layer of spackle onto your cabinets. WALL COLOR Paint a color that neutralizes the honey tone in cabinets. Also keep in mind that oak is a open-grained wood and some of that will show on a solid paint.