How to paint cabinets a color & style to match beige appliances?

Cathy Shay
by Cathy Shay

my appliances are beige and I'd like to paint cabinets French antique to match beige cabinets.

  6 answers
  • William William on Apr 02, 2019

    How to Paint Cabinets


    Make sure they are clean and dry. Remove the doors and hardware. Mark the doors and cabinets with tape where they go. Lightly sand the doors and cabinets to remove any gloss and roughen the surface for paint with 220 grit sandpaper or a green Scotch Brite pad.. Use a tack cloth or damp rag to remove dust after sanding. Prime with a stain blocking primer like KILZ. Acrylic or water base paints are low-fume and clean up easily with water. Alkyd or oil-based paints require good ventilation because the paint contains solvents that can irritate your lungs and make you feel sick. Alkyd options require mineral spirits for cleanup, but they provide a hard, durable paint finish. Whichever you use, buy the best-quality paint you can afford for a lasting kitchen cabinet finish. Seal with at least three coats with a water based polyurethane. Use a small foam roller and foam brush for a smooth finish.

  • Kathy Gunter Law Kathy Gunter Law on Apr 02, 2019

    I think glaze would be your best bet to achieve the effect your desire.

  • Oberlinmom Oberlinmom on Apr 02, 2019

    Visit a couple of places that sell paint, get as many paint chips that are as close to the color you want as you can. Keep getting chips and checking the color in various lights until your as sure as you can be that it's the color you want. Color matching these days is done by computers in most stores so it won't matter if the color you choose is in a brand that isn't the kind of paint you want. To be safe I'd do another check paint some larger areas with the color and see how it looks, again at various times during the day. Maybe remove a door and paint the inside.


    Once you've gotten that base color squared away. Paint all the doors and frames. Once it's cured and dry you'll need the color you'll use for "antiquing". Years and years ago the technique was to put the glaze on and brush/wipe it off. Leaving as little or as much behind as you want. It seems to me that you could use a stiff brush and "dry" brush it gently over and have a little more control. I would think that they still sell antiquing paint, it was a set back in the dinosaur years. It was a translucent brown color that didn't run and you had to do small areas at a time since it did dry pretty fast. Good luck

  • Cynthia H Cynthia H on Apr 02, 2019

    Or you could whitewash them


  • Kelli L. Milligan Kelli L. Milligan on Apr 03, 2019

    I would paint with oil based paint in Benjamin Moore 's Linen White. Then add a beige glaze . Sounds very pretty.

  • Rustoleum makes a kit called Cabinet Transformations that you can have tinted. It’s an easy kit to use. You can see how I did it here: https://www.flippingtheflip.com/2015/09/kitchen-cabinets-black.html?m=1