<p>lookingforward - all excellent points but “something or other” always happens to me. I’ve chickened out on “fixing” anything that is nailed down.</p>
<p>My cabinets were painted on site at the cabinet place where they were built. Supposedly it’s done in a multi step, multi layer process that lasts for decades. I went to visit a home they had done twenty years ago and the finish still looked great. So far mine still look brand new, but it’s only been a few years. The shop gave me touch up paint just in case anyone really whacks something hard, but so far, we haven’t needed to use it.</p>
<p>I asked about full scale repainting, too. They told me none of their clients had requested a referral ( they had been around maybe 22 years at that point so that is a good sign) and that while they don’t do this work, they can refer to people who use their process. They take all the doors off, etc.</p>
<p>My cabinet door where cheap with veneer on them and falling apart. I bought new unpainted ones from an online store and painted them. It’s a huge job and my frustration was to get it done somehow around my work schedule. I should have taken vacation for a 4 or 5 day weekend. As it was, it took me all summer. I also used the cheap mini foam rollers. They are great.</p>
<p>If you are going to sell the house in the next year, I wouldn’t put too much sweat equity into the project. Can the kitchen work with a “shabby chic or cottage” look? If so, remove doors, use wood filler on holes, paint black, then paint a creamy white, take sander and sand in areas. Some areas will show through with the original wood, a little black. Paint over finish product with a wax or glaze.</p>
<p>Edad, some people prefer the painted look.</p>
<p>We had old wooden cabinets and were going for a red black and white kitchen… So it made the most sense to paint them white.
All depends on the aesthetic you’re find for.</p>
<p>GT - that’s what we did. Twenty one years ago we were trying to decide whether or not to move, so we were reluctant to put a lot of money into a kitchen remodel. We purchased paint-grade wooden doors and used the original cabinets. I had everything painted by a professional painter. Overall it has held up beautifully and we are still here. We had the cabinets re-painted last summer (the doors still looked great). Somewhere along the line I changed door pulls and changed the counter tops, just to freshen things up. I love my kitchen cabinets. It was a great investment.</p>
<p>We started painting ours - 9 years ago. The cabinets were finished but the doors have not been re-hung yet. My excuse is that my husband got very sick in the middle of it all (blood clot in his lungs that nearly killed him and damaged his lungs and heart), but 9 years might be stretching it just a little!! We got kind of used to the no door look, but the insides of the lower cabinets get rather grubby and our cabinets are not tidy and organized like the no door fashionable cabinets you see in magazines. I did not like the original doors and they needed some repair work even back then, so am thinking of ordering some online and painting them - maybe the shaker style. Where is a good place?</p>
<p>One thing I do remember is getting very nauseous painting inside the deep bottom corner cabinets. My heart was racing and my daughter looked at my apparently rather dilated eyes and said “Mom, I think you’re high”. It I was, I’m not sure why anyone would do that by choice and for fun!</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom - we went to Home Depot or Lowes (I forget which) and they had a display of replacement cabinet doors and coordinating laminates for covering the surface of the cabinets. As I mentioned, we went with paint grade doors.</p>
<p>Just redid my cabinets last month as we were remodeling a home we bought that had been bank owned. I spent about 3 weeks researching what products worked the best, recommendations, ease of application, etc. Finished up by contacting stores and dealers to inquire what they sold the most of and what they had heard from their customers. Came up with Nuvo Cabinet Paint;</p>
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<p>The price was reasonable and it came with everything needed to get the job done- small foam rollers and frames, the right sandpaper, brushes, stirrers, etc and shipping was via Fed Ex from St Louis and arrived very quickly. The finished job looks terrific! I removed the doors and because they had had laminate glued onto them I took off that stuff only to discover that there were layers of nasty glue and varnish underneath. Attempted to scrape that junk, to not much avail, so I borrowed a friend’s small, Wagner wallpaper steamer and used that and a putty knife to cut thru the gunk. Nasty, dirty, hot and disgusting job and I can’t seem to get my nails to grow back! That aside, it took the doors down to bare wood which I then sanded very lightly and cleaned with Windex, as directed. The same with the box frames and ends. We painted the inside of the boxes and used wood filler to fill the holes where the knobs and hinges had been.
I applied 3 coats, but I was using a cream color over dark wood- most people can get away with 2 coats. Picked out new, brushed nickle knobs and smaller hinges which hardly show- you can get the “invisible” hinges, but they are much more expensive and really, the ones I selected are “barely there”! Hung the doors and with the addition of a new floor, dark granite, new sinks and all new appliances and the kitchen looks fabulous!
I may replace the doors in a couple of years, but only because I really want a Shaker Style door as opposed to a flat panel…
Good luck!
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<p>I’ve repainted kitchen cabinets, my mom has, and my renter has. Mine even required stripping about 5 layers of paint with a heat gun. That was a job. They had those black 1970 ish wrought iron style exposed hinges. IMO, taking off all the hardware and re-installing is the nastiest part. It would probably be a lot better now that I have a good battery drill/screwdriver.</p>
<p>Agree with laying the doors flat and using high quality paint. Oil is probably the most durable, but I usually avoid it because I hate using it. Stained cabinets can be very nicely revitalized with products designed for that purpose. I love the wipe-on polyurethane because there are no brush marks.</p>
<p>This has been our “end of the list” project for years. Really need to do it though. That Nuvo video makes it seem so easy and no removing doors?
My girlfriend removed hers, took months of doing it in spare time outside and in basement…she is handy with sewing and made “curtains” for her cabinets to hide the contents, actually looked very cute since she had a country-like look to the room.</p>