How To Paint And Distress Kitchen Cabinets

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How to paint and distress kitchen cabinets. We inherited black granite counter tops and painted white cabinets from the previous owners so we weren t too far off of the inspiration kitchen. Find more painting tips in our playlist. This example shows thinned white paint used to emphsize the small grooves of the wood paneling on the black kitchen island.
If you feel like sanding hard enough to reveal the wood base is too much work you can also distress black cabinets by using glazes stains paint. To distress cabinets start by sanding them with 80 grit sandpaper to rough up the surface so the stain sticks. Select oil paint for kitchen and preferably one that has primer in it to save you that extra step.
Then use a cloth to rub a stain or glaze into the surface of the wood adding more layers until you re satisfied with the color. After building cabinets in my shop for a farm or country style kitchen i was faced with the task of creating a distressed finish. Then just scratch it up a bitwith steel wool.
I fell in love with that french inspired kitchen and decided i needed a little of that in my life s il vous plait. Because the base color is very dark you would need to use a more opaque glaze hence why some people prefer using thinned paint as it carries more pigments that would show against the black cabinet surface. The inspiration behind my decision to distress my kitchen cabinets came from this article.
In this video i show you how to distress cabinets with ease. When you re finished apply a few coats of acrylic or latex paint. My distressed cabinets give a fresh new look to my old dark ugly cabin.
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