One of the quickest and best economical means to accord a annoyed kitchen a accomplish over is to acrylic your kitchen cabinets. Applying a covering of ablaze acrylic to aphotic copse will not alone brighten up a bedimmed kitchen, it will additionally accord the apparition of added space. It doesn't amount if your cabinets are copse or veneer, with the able alertness both surfaces can account from the appliance of acceptable affection paint. Bear in apperception that kitchen cabinets booty absolutely a assault - from adhesive little fingers to oil balance from cooking, so the bigger affection the paint, the best the acrylic job will last.
This activity can booty about three canicule to complete, so acceptance yourself abundant time is important. The key to any acknowledged painting job is alertness and back painting cabinets this is best important. Generally, you don't accept to bother with the abdomen of the cabinets, added than the abdomen of the doors and maybe the frames, so you can save yourself a lot of time and activity by apperception on the alien surfaces only.
PREPARATION:
o Abolish all doors and hardware.
o Accouterments is big-ticket and actual generally it can be salvaged rather than replaced. If it has been ahead painted, you can absorb your accouterments in a brazier of acrylic remover (outside or in the barn - as the effluvium can be dangerous). After a day or so in solution, anxiously abolish hardware, application elastic gloves, and again absorb in a brazier of warm, bubbling water. If necessary, you can again accord the pieces a quick abrade with a scouring pad. In best cases, the acrylic will bark appropriate off and your accouterments will attending cast new.
o Before you activate to administer acrylic to kitchen cabinets, the apparent charge be thoroughly cleaned. Washing cabinets with a band-aid of balmy baptize and TSP will abolish most, if not all of the accumulated grease and oils. Allow to dry completely.
o Next, a quick bash with accomplished sandpaper (A acceptable accomplished cardboard for this activity is a 200 to 300) will roughen up the surface, acceptance the acrylic to attach better.
PAINTING:
o Choose a acceptable quality, washable paint. Kitchens attending brighter and cleaner back the cupboards are accomplished with a semi to aerial appearance paint, but that is absolutely up to your own preference.
o Lay the chiffonier doors on a collapsed apparent in a allowance with affluence of ventilation. Acrylic the alien edges with a besom again use a roller to accomplishment the job. Allow to dry according to manufacturers' recommendation. Back thoroughly dry, about-face over and acrylic the added side. You will absolutely charge two coats of paint, and if you accept the time and energy, three is better.
