Is it advisable to paint melamine cabinetry?
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We have 4yr old melamine cabinets and I regret the colour choice I made. I wanted a weathered farmhouse look, but this is not it. Would painting them be advisable or will that make a big mess of it all?
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I would think you could paint over them with either chalk paint (sealed after final coat) or unicorn spit? Or a combo of both - first layer chalk paint to cover what's there and then next layer of unicorn spit.
Maybe just try the drawer fronts first. I've painted over wallpaper in our camper and it turned out beautiful and never bubbled or peeled.
make sure that you use a really good primer first! Once you have primed almost any paint will stick. But my advice is to finish with some sort of poly to seal them.
Melamine or coretron, same thing just a different brand or company that makes it! I known people that’s painted it, but there’s several steps to go thru to get paint to stick . Whether it remains stuck to the surface over time can be another story! A few I’ve seen months later the paint was pealong! I don’t know the style of your cabinets, where the cabinet has a face frame or is a European style cabinet or if the doors are a simple flat board or have a raised planel design? Either way cabinets usually can be skinned with 1/4 birch plywood and glued on your cabinets as a outer shell so you can easily pain a clean unfinished surface! It’s more prep time and cost on material. But the paint job will last a lot longer and look better then painting what you got. If you have a flat door it can be skinned too! You can also use a vine we but will have to use contact cement to glue it to the cabinets! Don’t need a lot of tools to do the job, and some simple woodworking skills will get the job done! You can cut the material slightly larger then your babibetcsides and use a router with a flush cutting bit to get the material the right size. It’s a project a DIY advance beginner could easily do! A little bit of a learning curve and you be a pro in no time If you have any practice working with woodworking equipment? Painting be a cinch then! Other option is using like a oak or maple and using a finish rather then paint. You can do a oak cabinet with a white door too! I’ve made many custom designs over the years for customers of mine. So at least you do have options!
Yes, really done a little bit of everything with home construction and remodeling since I was a kid being my Dad was a Jack of all trades contractor back in the day when a licensed allowed you to do most anything in a home. Laws are a lot stricter now, but I still know how to do most anything in a home from floorin, some plumbing, some electrical, anything to do with woodworking. Own my own shop for 18 years till my health took a turn for the worse. Now I just do things for myself and friends!
I just painted my wood grain laminate cabinets with chalk paint. To test the "sanding" theory....I coated them well with liquid sander/deglosser (to avoid the mess) then went over with a light coat of chalk paint.....dried that for a couple hours and went in again with another coat.
Applied "Minwax Clear Wax Paste" and added some distressing with antique wax. Buffed it off. Put a couple coats of poly (several.....my hubby is picky and I have small kids).
AMAZING! I've had so many compliments. Once I get my scrap granite backsplash done (for free might I add), I will send a picture of the finished project.