The counters look granite but are not ...help!
Kitchen cabinets
by
Sue Bryant
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Need an inexpensive redo for white kitchen cabinets. I would like to try a brown beige wash???? Is there such a thing?
Of course there is. If you like an aged look, distress the edges of the doors and frames with sandpaper to reveal more white and even wood beneath. Best wishes 😇
Well if you want a wash look, I would first add a beige or wood tone basecoat and then use a darker glaze over top to highlight the features of your cabinets..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQrq4T0xaCw
there are a lot of videos you can watch with various color combos
I have never used chalk paint or the washes that go over it but there are tutorials online and I have seen a brown wash over brown paint so I assume you can use it on white just as easily.
There was a vendor at this years Hardware Show convention called Beyond Paint. The finish on their samples was flawless. I haven’t tried it myself though.
If you did a dark glaze on them it would "antique" them I think they would look really nice
Chalk paint is a great idea! it cuts out a lot of the work too
I did several sets of cabinets when had my painting company. My favorite “wash” medium was gel stain. Modern Masters was my favorite brand. The reason for this is, it has a long open time, so you have plenty of time to manipulate the glaze. This is important if you have any big doors to work on. The first thing is to make sure you can move the glaze. I highly recommend a fresh coat of good quality oil based paint. If that’s more that what you want to do, then use TSP and clean them really well. Then apply a couple of coats of oil based polyurethane. Give that a couple of days to cure out. Now using a wide chip brush, brush on the gel stain, one section at a time. I recommend you start in the middle and work your way out. Right after you’ve brushed it on, remove as much as you want with cheese cloth. You are going to need a lot of cheese cloth so go to a Faux Finish supplier and buy a roll of precut squares. In the corners, use a small chip brush to dab at any globs. Pounce don’t brush. If you are going to do the backs of the doors, do those first so you don’t hurt the fronts. If you get stain where you don’t want it, use mineral spirits to take it off.