Questions for the DIY painters..veneer cabinets?

[HiDelight]

I say take one of the doors off and show someone in a paint store
( not a box store that can be good or bad but you never know so why risk it)
they can tell you and show you everything you need to get the cabinets done right ..this is how I do projects now ..I take something off and have them tell me what to do ..it helps to pick out new hardware as well to have the thing with you

I wish I had learned sooner how much professional advice was out there for free! if I had my garage would be much less overstocked with leftoveres!
these folks not only tell you exactly what steps you need to take ..and they help you buy the right quanties of everything

good luck! it would be nice to see pics of your project if you want to share

 

[ChickenDreamer]

All this advise has been very helpful. I think I'm feeling confident enought to give this a try.

Thanks for all the excellent info everyone.

It will take a while to accomplish this between work and kids, but if I do it I will post pics here.

 

[conradpdx]

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If you were to go to a Kelly Moore or Sherwin Williams store that is where you will get the best help and a great paint for the $$$$. no Price does not equal quality, But when you use oil based paints you will have to practice lay down technics=brushing properly with a good quality brush ( Purdy enamel brush is good ), get a self leveling paint so there will be no brush strokes, do not brush too much, take the doors and drawers off then lay flat to paint, Paint edges and tight spots first then lay down your nice long frontal strokes, if you lay them flat the paint levels better.
I hope some of this will be helpful.


AL

I'm going to have to somewhat disagree with a little bit of this.

More money almost always means a better product with tools and materials. Paints especially have a lot of room for filler materials, the more binder and dye in the product the better it's going to look and the longer it's going to last, and most likely the less coats you're going to have to apply.

Anytime I do a project I always buy the best tools and materials I can afford. Even in an example like paint if one paint costs 1/2 the price of the other and it starts to chip after a year or two while the more expensive paint lasts 3-5 years without chipping you've more than made up the difference in costs and time by investing in the better product. And the difference between high quality oil based paint and cheap acrylic (just to compare the extremes) is more like a decade depending on exposure to the elements and daily wear of the product.

Also if you're going to use oil based paints use brushes made for oil based paints. The Acrylic brushes won't hold much oil paint (they're plastic bristles and smooth and the oil paint slides off them easier) so you're going to be reloading your brush more often than you would with a natural fiber brush designed for oil based paints(who's bristols are not as smooth but will hold more paint) Depending on what you're painting less paint on the brush means more potential for brush strokes.

Though I do agree with a paint store. The more DIY I do, the less I goto the big box stores. They're products are inferior and thier staffs knowledge is nearly nill.

Also in the specialty stores you can get much better deals. I was installing a new fridge and had to run a water line to it for the dispenser/ice machine and instead of buying a PEX crimping tool for $110 I decided to rent one. After checking the big orange box they could rent me the crimper for $35-$40 for the first 4 hours. Deciding that seemed high I called a local plumbing store and they said it's a straight $20.00 an hour for rent. I got there, filled out the paperwork and took the crimper home. The plumbing store is perhaps 2 miles away and I had already ran all the lines and all that was left was the crimping, so i went home made my crimps and was back returning it within 15-20 minutes. They didn't charge me for the rental or the three rings. And I now wouldn't even dream of going anywhere else for plumbing tools or supplies. And my house built in 1926 has yet to stump them, they have "it" in stock and know exactly what "it" is and where "it is on the shelves.

And I've got similar stories for lumber yards, electrical supply stores, and tile stores. And since trying Miller Paints interior latex paint a couple years ago I'm not going with any other paint company. no apparent brush strokes and the orange (two coats of primer as well)we used in the kitchen only took two coats as opposed to the four I was expecting to apply.