Painting Techniques for Kitchen Cabinets

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"Painting techniques for kitchen cabinets. First thing to do is to remove all your cabinet doors and create a workspace, somewhere where you can work on all those doors on a flat surface. The next thing to do is to determine what sort of finish you would like to put on there. We'll start with a over-graining technique which will be taking a pre-mixed gel stain that I've made and tinted it with a very dark brown. This technique, I would be applying this pre-mixed varnish. I don't want to, maybe change this wood to a different color altogether. If I didn't like that color, which I don't particularly like it that much, it's a little bit too black, I would add a little tint and in this particular instance it's going to be a little, I think a little redder would be nice. So I would just put, I'm just going to put a drop right there just to change it for the sake of the demonstration. You want to get into all the nicks and grannies; then you would continue that onto the next piece. It doesn't all have to be the exact same color, you could tint small areas at a time like I do that, I do that. The brush also works as an initial graining tool just by dragging and pulling, creates a tight grain like you would find in walnut. Not considering yourself with this, it can be wiped off and using both the sponge and the brush to create a wood grain. Another kitchen cabinet painting technique would be simply to paint the cabinets and then perhaps wipe some of the areas off. Determining the color you're going to use is going to be a big factor in, in painting your cabinets. If you get a color that you like and then you bring it home and it's the wrong color, I would recommend to find some of these tints. Right now I would just be painting the cabinet and maybe in sort of a, a definite; just, just keeping it straight, streaky, overall coverage. So that would be my color; then I would probably have it on there a little more evenly and then later on the day; I put my glasses on so I could see what I'm doing; and carefully just wipe off a very slight edge exposing the wood like so. Another kitchen painting technique for the cabinets would be to do a, a dragging over the existing wood work. I will take a paint that's been pre-mixed and I've made a nice sort of sagey green out of an oil based paint, just straight paint. In order to make it more transparent I am just going to simply add a little bit of varnish, oil based as well and it's, this is a liquid poly. My thought in this process is that, if I'm adding a polyurethane to my paint, I'm going to make a stronger surface of finish coat as I go. I've added the more liquid of the polyurethanes to my paint because it was very thick. And what I want to do at this point is determine how transparent I want this to be. At this point I would say more transparent. The transparency is fairly good; it could be a little more. I'll just demonstrate what happens when I add a little gel varnish which is the thicker varnish and that's getting more of the, the look that I'm looking for it. And then this cross pieces, I would probably again divide this into several days, working on each different part each day. For today I can just, since I've done this for so long and I'm good at it, I can just go into that area and take my same brush and carefully break where the line is there. It takes some practice. So this is what I mean by disturbing the next area where is, I've just now disturb this so I have to go back in there and try and get that straighten out. It's a lot easier to break it into different days for different ways directions and that would be sort of the finish look."