social

Restaining Old Kitchen Cabinets


Bronze Feedback Medal for All Time! 168 Feedbacks
June 4, 2010

The corner of a wood cabinet door.If you want to redo or give a face-lift to aged kitchen cabinets, here's an inexpensive way to do it. It does require your time and effort. Try mixing two wood stains together to about the color of wood your kitchen cabinets were originally or if you prefer you can change the wood color altogether. You can also take two darker wood stains and mix them together opposite of the first mixture of stains to use in giving more emphasis to grooves or cut pattern decoration in wood panels so it stands out.

Advertisement

Sand off the old worn finish using a medium and then a fine sandpaper and wipe off saw dust with new paint brush. Then use a clean t-shirt to remove the remaining debris from the panels. Next, wear medical gloves and wrap a small pieces of tee shirt material around you index finger. Squeeze off excess stain from cloth and apply carefully the darker stain first to areas of emphasis, if desired. Next apply the lighter stain mixture to the remainder of the cabinet panels. You may need to reapply until you get the depth of stain coloring you want.

Once it's dry, with brush thin coat with satin polyurethane for protective cover. You may need to do several coats allowing to dry after each application.

It's best to remove cabinet doors from hinges and lay flat while doing all processes. You will be pleased with the results and your cabinets will have that new look again w/o replacing. If mixing stains, stay with the same brand for best results.

Advertisement

Proven fact, painting over or replacing cabinets when they look bad is not the only answer to solving one's dilemma. You can even change the color stains if you don't like the original.

I did this to an old trailer my relative moved into which desperately needed a face-lift in the kitchen. Unfortunately, my camera would not take a decent picture in the room as it was too dark to show the end results well enough.

By Myrna from Ohio

 

Comments


Bronze Feedback Medal for All Time! 231 Feedbacks
June 4, 20100 found this helpful

You're right. There are lots of ways to do it, depending on the condition. I love stain, but find it harder than painting so I like to go the painting route. Either way, it's a "new" kitchen.

Advertisement

www.oldhouseweb.com/.../painting-kitchen-cabinets.shtml

 
Categories
Home and Garden Home Improvement KitchenFebruary 8, 2017
Pages
More
🍀
St. Patrick's Ideas!
🎂
Birthday Ideas!
💘
Valentine's Ideas!
Facebook
Pinterest
YouTube
Instagram
Categories
Better LivingBudget & FinanceBusiness and LegalComputersConsumer AdviceCoronavirusCraftsEducationEntertainmentFood and RecipesHealth & BeautyHolidays and PartiesHome and GardenMake Your OwnOrganizingParentingPetsPhotosTravel and RecreationWeddings
Published by ThriftyFun.
Desktop Page | View Mobile
Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
Generated 2024-02-01 10:37:51 in 8 secs. ⛅️️
© 1997-2024 by Cumuli, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.thriftyfun.com/Restaining-Old-Kitchen-Cabinets.html